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.

Whether that's learning self-acceptance, taking action, or seeking therapy or treatment.

Eight years ago, I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you

who might already be knowledgeable about mental health treatment, but also to those of you

who might say you'd never darken the door of a therapist.

And yet you are here.

I'll answer your questions.

While I invite you to take a few minutes

for your own self-work.

But it's interesting too how, you know, a lot of parents have read the book and it just

stimulated their thinking of how they can re-engage within a strange child or just maybe into a subject that is not something

they typically would do and maybe do it in a more open less threatening manner.

Welcome to this week's edition of self work.

I featured some guests who in their books or teachings enter a spiritual realm.

But what caught my eye about this author and this book, Ken Guidros, and his book Letters to

my son in prison, was that both believers and non-believers in

traditional faith were writing very meaningful reviews of it.

Here are two of them, one from Kathy Bird, author of the boy who knew too much.

A gripping true story from beginning to end, it is intelligent, humorous at times and overflowing

with spiritual insights, one of the most thought-provoking books I've ever

encountered. And here's the second. I'm not a believer and I'm not a father. So why do I

like Gweiroz's book so much?

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