383 SelfWork: How to Listen To, Learn From, and Work With Panic
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Last week SelfWork focused on what fear has to teach you – what it may lead you to think, feel, or experience. And this week, I want to talk about panic, panic disorder, and how you can listen to, learn from, and work with panic.
If you’ve listened to SelfWork for a while now, you probably know that I experienced my first panic attack when I was in my late 20’s. Having them changed my life – I thought at the time, for the worse. But I’ve learned that, like many things, there are gifts that come into our lives that are initially experienced as unwelcome, unexpected, or hurtful.
We're also going to talk about treatment for panic. As my friend and anxiety expert Kimberley Quinlan says, to approach anxiety and challenge its hold on you, her mantra of “It’s a beautiful day to do a hard thing” applies.
The Speakpipe voicemail for today is from a young woman who describes her father as having narcissistic traits and at the least, has been emotionally and verbally abusive. He seems to have demanded that both of his daughters care for him rather than developing lives of their own – her mom died several years ago, and now, she’s asking me what to do. The tape is a little fuzzy at times but I’ll do my best to answer her question. My answer may not be as simple as you think...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them. |
| 0:15.7 | Whether that's learning self-acceptance, taking action, or seeking therapy or treatment. |
| 0:21.5 | Eight years ago, I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you |
| 0:25.2 | who might already be knowledgeable about mental health treatment, but also to those of you |
| 0:29.5 | who might say you'd never jarken the door of a therapist. |
| 0:33.2 | And yet you are here. |
| 0:35.1 | I'll answer your questions while I invite you |
| 0:37.3 | to take a few minutes for your own self-work. |
| 0:39.7 | I've also often told my panic patients that I think of panic as your soul or your |
| 0:47.8 | gut or your wise unconscious mind, literally sending up flares of panic screaming for your attention. |
| 0:55.0 | Listen, you're not paying attention to something that's important. |
| 0:58.0 | You can even visualize like from your soul or from your gut. |
| 1:01.0 | Little bursts of fire or light saying, listen up, |
| 1:04.0 | listen up. Welcome to this week's edition of self-work. Last week self-work focused on |
| 1:11.5 | what fear has to teach you. |
| 1:13.2 | Basically, it's gifts to you, but it may lead you to think, feel, or experience. |
| 1:18.8 | But this week, I want to talk about panic and panic disorder. If you've listened to self work for a while now you |
| 1:24.8 | probably know that I experienced my first panic attack when I was in my late 20s and |
| 1:30.0 | having them has changed my life. I thought at the time for the worse. But I've learned |
| 1:35.3 | that like many things, there are gifts to those things that come into our lives as |
| 1:39.6 | unwelcome, unexpected, or hurtful. I'm not trying to say that everything has a silver lining. |
| 1:44.8 | That wouldn't be something I'd ever want to infer. However, I hope I've learned |
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