Six Beginning Exercises To Motivate Growth and Change: SelfWork #152
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As I wrote the book Perfectly Hidden Depression, I included over sixty specific exercises that would make reading it more of an emotional challenge, rather than one more chance to analyze. They are both action-oriented and reflective exercises and hopefully, you'd come away with a journal full of fresh insights, guidance on effecting real change in your life and support for taking risks.
So today I want to give you a taste of those exercises, so that you can get a sense of how this kind of change can be tried on for size. So many people want to change but start off with a plan that's way too difficult or hard to reach. Instead, these exercises are things you can do to help set yourself up for success – however it is that you would like to define that success. They include: creating a mantra, beginning to detach from shame, identifying emotions that are hard to feel, realizing underlying beliefs about worry and other feeling states, receiving positive recognition from others, and creating your own relationship graphic.
Our listener email is from someone who’s identified with perfectly hidden depression. But her specific problem lies with jealousy or difficulty as she tries to maintain a friendship with her ex.
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My new book entitled Perfectly Hidden Depression will be arriving November 1, 2019 and you can pre-order here! Its message is specifically for those with a struggle with strong perfectionism which acts to mask underlying emotional pain. But the many self-help techniques described can be used by everyone who chooses to begin to address emotions long hidden away that are clouding and sabotaging your current 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. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist |
| 0:34.5 | out of Fayeville, Arkansas, and I've actually been doing therapy here for over 25 |
| 0:38.9 | years. I began self-work three years ago in order to try to reach people who might already be interested |
| 0:45.5 | in psychological or emotional kinds of healing, but also to those who might have been initially |
| 0:51.1 | diagnosed and are looking for answers, really having never |
| 0:54.2 | talked to anybody about this kind of thing, and to a third group. |
| 0:58.6 | Those of you who might be a bit critical or even reticent to consider therapy or any kind of therapeutic practice. |
| 1:07.1 | But you are curious enough to listen to a podcast like this. |
| 1:11.7 | There's also so much mis-education and misunderstanding about |
| 1:16.0 | what happens in treatment. Maybe this will give you an example of what therapy just |
| 1:21.9 | might be like for you. |
| 1:23.0 | For those of you who've been listening to self-work for a while, |
| 1:26.0 | you know that I like to talk about what you can do about it. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm a very action-oriented therapist. |
| 1:33.8 | And you also know that actually one week from the date of this episode airing, |
| 1:39.3 | Perfectly Hidden Depression, my book on perfectionism and depression, will officially come out. |
| 1:46.8 | That would be November the 1st. |
| 1:48.7 | I can't quite believe it, but as I began preparing for this podcast, I recognize that I wanted to talk about some of the things |
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