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The SelfWork Podcast

474 SelfWork: Healing Through Intuition: A Conversation with Author Laura Day

The SelfWork Podcast

Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever thought that intuition could be used for healing crisis? Laura Day, the New York Times bestselling author is back with a long-awaited, life-altering book to help you learn how to do just that. In her past breakthrough book Practical Intuition, she explained how anyone can train themselves to gain full access to the powers of the intuitive brain. However, only Laura’s closest friends knew that behind the book’s phenomenal success was a dark family history. In this, her first book in fifteen years, Day, shares her haunting and unforgettable family story. Multiple suicides including her mother. A home life where the kids actually lived by themselves in a separate apartment from their parents. Only her intuition helped her figure out what no one had taught her – how to care for herself and her siblings. Now, Day has combined her experiences and teaching in her new book, The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future (Spiegel & Grau; April 29, 2025. It reveals seven points in our growth as children and adults that can hinder or help us thrive. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

This is Self-Work, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

0:10.3

At Self-Work, we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them,

0:15.6

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

0:21.3

Eight years ago, I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you who might already be

0:26.1

knowledgeable about middle health treatment, but also to those of you who might say you'd never

0:31.2

darken the door of a therapist. And yet, you are here. I'll answer your questions while I invite

0:37.0

you to take a few minutes for your

0:39.1

own self-work. What you find is you say, okay, my problem right now is I can't pay my rent.

0:47.1

What ego center is that? Is that value the fourth or is that safety the first? If it's the

0:53.6

first, you go to the chapter in the first, you do one small thing that doesn't

0:57.1

resonate you, but is safe differently, and you'll notice that the world changes around you.

1:03.7

Welcome to this week's edition of Self-Work.

1:07.8

This week, I have author and really wonderful person, Laura Day, on self-work. She's a New York

1:16.2

Times bestselling author, and she's back with a long-awaited book that promises to transform

1:23.4

your present and create the future you deserve. So what's all that about?

1:30.8

One of her first breakout books was called Practical Intuition and explained how anyone can train themselves to gain full access to the powers of the intuitive brain

1:36.9

because Laura does have intuitive powers that she's known how to tap into.

1:43.6

But only Laura's closest friends knew that behind that book's phenomenal success

1:47.9

was actually a really dark family history.

1:51.2

So in her new book, The PRISM,

1:54.4

Laura Day for the first time, shares her haunting family story,

1:58.2

which includes multiple suicides, including her mother, a home where the kids

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