184 SelfWork: Healing From Being Bullied
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Warning: This episode uses examples from the lives of real people who’ve been bullied by their own parents. So please listen with caution. Here are a couple of numbers, one for the sexual abuse textline in the US and one for the US National Suicide Hotline.
In this episode sponsored by BetterHelp, we’re going to talk about bullies that might be in your life today. Or from your past. What makes someone a bully? Is being a bully a diagnostic category? And as always, what can you do about it and how can you heal?
The listener email is from a young woman who sounds to me as if she has, sadly, gone from the frying pan into the fire, and chosen a familiar pain – one that she felt in the biological famly, and now playing that out with the family she married into.
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome or welcome back to self-work. |
| 0:32.8 | This is Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, |
| 0:37.2 | and I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:39.1 | Self-work is all about trying to reach people |
| 0:41.9 | who may already be interested in psychological |
| 0:43.9 | emotional issues but would love another perspective to someone who's |
| 0:47.3 | been initially diagnosed with depression or anxiety and you're looking for answers |
| 0:51.5 | or to that third group of people who may not |
| 0:54.6 | ever consider darkening the door of a therapist, but they're just curious enough to |
| 0:59.1 | hear what a psychologist like me has to say. Today's topic is healing from being bullied. |
| 1:06.0 | I want to warn you that this episode uses examples from the lives of real people who've been bullied, |
| 1:11.0 | so please listen with caution. I've included the show notes |
| 1:14.9 | the sexual abuse text line in the United States and the National Suicide |
| 1:19.1 | Hotline. But in this episode sponsored by Better Help we're going to talk about bullies that might be in your life today or from your past. |
| 1:27.0 | What makes someone a bully is being bully a diagnostic category, |
| 1:31.0 | and as always, what can you do about it how can you heal the |
| 1:35.7 | Lisserie Mill is from a young woman who sounds to me as if she has sadly |
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