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 jarken 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 there was one day where she heard him delivering drugs to a child when he didn't realize his phone that she provided for him by the way was on. I've got to begin to detach. I'll always love him but I can't

worry constantly about him. The drugs have changed him and he's become someone I don't know.

Welcome to this week's edition of self-work.

The term distancing in the last few years has come to mean something quite different

as many were social distancing from one another during the pandemic,

while many others struggle with loneliness and sadness from that very choice.

But today we're going to focus on emotional detachment and distancing in a way that's more healthy.

When I began self-work eight years ago, my goal was to share what I'd learned from doing therapy

for decades with people of all walks of life who were podcast listeners who maybe

couldn't afford therapy or were very dubious about that whole thing. I've invited

comments both positive and negative and haven't ever blocked anyone from responding unless they were so

disrespectful that I felt like I was allowing someone to literally walk all over me

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