367 SelfWork: Putting Self-Reflection Into Action: Five Questions to Answer
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Out of curiosity, l listened to an older voicemail this week. It was from "this time last year." How many times have you said that to yourself, "This time last year I... " Maybe the end of that sentence is joyful. Maybe it's sad. But it's an exercise in self-reflection - which is the topic for today's SelfWork. This particular question is a sort of time travel in your own head and heart.
Self-reflection isn't about over self-involvement: it’s what we humans can do to get perspective and learn ways you might be getting in your own way of creating the life you want. Show you how to move out of depression or anxiety. And when you pair self-reflection with action - it can lead to healing change.
So here are the self-reflective questions that lead to action that we’re looking at today.
- What am I needing to still learn? What have I learned?
- When do I recognize that I need to put something new in place?
- Where was I last year at this time? What did I learn? What did I find out about myself?
- Why am I doing what I’m doing? What’s my purpose?
- How do I want to put the answers to these questions in place in very real ways in my life?
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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 |
| 0:29.4 | Hello and welcome or welcome back to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I started |
| 0:34.7 | self-work eight years ago in order to really extend the walls of my practice in |
| 0:39.1 | several different directions to those of you who might already know about |
| 0:42.3 | psychological issues you want to |
| 0:44.4 | know more you want to compare what I say to your own therapist maybe to those of you who might |
| 0:50.5 | be looking for answers and you Google Best Depression Podcast and |
| 0:54.5 | Upcome Self-Works, but of course I'd be delighted for that to happen. |
| 0:58.0 | But also to those of you who might be a little lost or skeptical about mental health |
| 1:02.2 | treatment really not know whether you can |
| 1:04.4 | trust it. And maybe on self-work you'll hear something that makes sense to you. I certainly hope |
| 1:09.7 | so again. Thank you for being here. So last year I received a voicemail but I didn't publish it because it felt a little |
| 1:17.2 | self-promotional to do so. But when I listened to it this morning I was struck by what I thought about my own self-reflection. I |
| 1:24.8 | remember this time last year I was and I'm sure you said that to yourself many |
| 1:30.0 | times before and yet asking yourself that question can lead you sometimes to comfort, |
| 1:35.2 | misery, sadness, joy, gratitude, or resentment. But it can also help you to have a broader |
| 1:40.4 | perspective of where your life was and where it's going, sort of like time travel |
| 1:46.3 | in your own head and heart. That led me to the whole idea of actual what self-reflection is, and rather than it being some kind of over-self involvement, |
| 1:56.3 | it's what we humans can do to get perspective and learn and see ways you might be getting in |
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