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Relationship Advice

265: Addressing Our Shame

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Shame can be an emotion that takes a toll on us personally and in a relationship. Listen to today's show to learn how to address our shame or the shame our partner has toward themselves. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Understand the important distinction between guilt and shame How shame is formed and negatively affects our view of self Accepting our vulnerabilities to release shame and improve our lives Helping our partner navigate shame Communicating with our partner about shame And much more! Dr. Margaret Rutherford has been a psychologist in private practice for over twenty-five years and is the author of Perfectly Hidden Depression: How to Break Free from the Perfectionism That Masks Your Depression which was published in November 2019. Full show notes and episode links at: https://idopodcast.com/265 Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! New Podcast Series: Love Under Quarantine Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Trivia Star: Trivia Star is offering you 2,500 coins and 500 gems when you download and play. Search Trivia Star in the Apple App Store or Google Store and download Trivia Star for FREE today! BetterHelp:Get help on your own time and at your own pace. Get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's going on?

0:28.0

What's going on?

0:29.0

Thanks for tuning in.

0:30.0

We hope you guys are having a wonderful day. We have a great show for you today where we talk with Dr. Margaret Rutherford about shame and Sarah is going to tell you a little bit about Dr. Margaret.

0:44.5

Well, Margaret has been a psychologist in a private practice for over 25 years and she recently released her book Perfectly Hidden Depression,

0:57.5

how to break free from the perfectionism that masks your depression.

1:02.1

She released that in November and that

1:03.3

in November and we had a great conversation with her today.

1:07.3

Yeah, I found a lot of value in it in understanding how guilt can turn into shame and really to work on not having so much

1:18.9

self-criticism and because it can negatively affect myself and my relationship.

1:24.4

So she gives us the tools to recognize shame and how to release it and how to support a partner that may be experiencing these issues.

1:37.5

I think a lot of people feel this at one point or another, so a lot of value in today's show.

1:43.7

And as always, we appreciate you guys so much for listening,

1:46.8

sharing the podcast with your friends and family,

1:49.8

leaving us those five-shot reviews,

1:52.0

and then checking out our website. We have a ton of free

1:54.6

resources on our website including the 14-day happy couple challenge, all the

2:00.7

free guides that we have that correspond with a lot of our episodes out there,

2:05.0

as well as links to our podcast course, Spark My Relationship.

2:11.0

We have $100 off for our podcast listeners, so we hope you guys visit our website ID Podcast.com and check out all that free stuff we got for you guys.

2:20.0

And we hope you guys enjoy today's episode.

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