330 SelfWork (Second Time Around): How to Calm Your Mind or What Would Mister Rogers Say?
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today my editor, graphic designer and general "auxiliary brain" Christine Mathias, has chosen her favorite podcast. It's all about self-soothing and Mister Rogers came to mind! And we look at the neurobiology of "calm," featuring work by Dr. Dan Siegel, a psychiatrist, author, researcher and integrative neurobiologist who coined the phrase, “Name it to tame it.”
Our listener email is from someone who has gained a lot from SelfWork – always something that makes me smile – but who can’t stop worrying about the cancel culture that has arrived. Suddenly you’re simply not around anymore or important or valued, because of what can seem like immediate and complete social rejection.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:29.9 | As I welcome or welcome back to Selfwork, I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, I'm a clinical |
| 0:34.1 | psychologist, I've lived and worked in Fable Arkansas for 30 years, and I'm delighted |
| 0:39.8 | you're here, each and every one of you. |
| 0:42.6 | We presented something a little different last week. |
| 0:45.0 | We actually heard from John Crowley, my fantastic audio producer and engineer, about his favorite |
| 0:51.0 | episode. |
| 0:52.4 | And this week, Christine Matthias, my communications director, brainstorming partner, editor, graphic |
| 0:57.8 | designer, she wears lots of hats, has chosen her own favorite. |
| 1:03.2 | As I said last week, the greater part of our relationship has been virtual. |
| 1:08.0 | I've met and spent time with both John and Christine, but we've mostly gotten to know |
| 1:12.2 | each other through sharing life and work for the last six or more years. |
| 1:17.5 | There's definitely truth in the fact that you can make very deep friendships virtually. |
| 1:23.6 | And there is absolutely no way I could produce Selfwork without them. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm so very blessed. |
| 1:31.0 | Christine's choice of her favorite episode for the second time around is based on one |
| 1:35.8 | where I revisited what Mr. Rogers had to say and how it's still so important now. |
| 1:41.8 | As Christine reminds us, he said, you make each day special just because you're you. |
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