297 SelfWork: What If I Never Can Trust?
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A listener left a voicemail for me within the past couple of weeks… in fact, two. Basically she asked, “I have trouble bonding with people and find myself not expecting too much. I’m in a good relationship now with my partner, but how do I get over this issue? Can you give tips on how to start trusting myself, others and especially my parents?” I want to stress that being able to trust is about connection – about intimacy – and if you struggle with it, then you’ll not experience true connection, but isolation and fear. The good news is, as Bessel Van Der Kolk says in The Body Keeps The Score, “As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.” Trigger warning: We’ll be talking about specific examples of abuse.
The voicemail for today is from a listener who had severe withdrawal symptoms from being on an antidepressant for year, and asks about how to avoid withdrawal problems. Again I’m not a medical doctor but I can convey what I’ve observed clinically.
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An article by Darius Cikanavicius that offered us a great way to organize our discussion and I'd highly recommend it!
I"d also recommend reading Bessel Van Der Kolk's The Body Keeps The Score for wonderful practical and conceptual advice on healing from abuse!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Selfwork, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.1 | At Selfwork, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Dr. Margaret, and Selfwork is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today |
| 0:26.2 | for your own Selfwork. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello and welcome, or welcome back to Selfwork. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm a clinical psychologist, and I started Selfwork nearly six years ago, coming up in |
| 0:39.4 | October of this year, in order to extend the walls of my practice to those of you who |
| 0:44.2 | might already be in therapy or be very interested in psychological issues, doing your own healing, |
| 0:50.6 | to those of you who might just have been diagnosed with something, or you're looking for |
| 0:53.6 | answers in some way to what's going on with you. |
| 0:57.4 | But also to a third group of you, a group of you are very skeptical of the whole idea |
| 1:02.4 | of therapy and what it's all about. |
| 1:04.6 | You may even believe some things that just aren't true. |
| 1:07.8 | So I hope if you listen to Selfwork, it's not therapy, but at least it's a psychologist |
| 1:12.6 | and a therapist for over 30 years who wants to share with you some information about what |
| 1:18.2 | we do, how we think, and how possibly therapy could be helpful to you. |
| 1:23.3 | One of the greatest honors that I get from one of my listeners is for you to write |
| 1:27.4 | me and say, well, you know, I didn't want to go to therapy, but now that I've listened |
| 1:31.5 | to Selfwork, I'm going to give it a try. |
| 1:33.5 | So thank you, all of you, for being here. |
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