SelfWork with Dr. Margaret Rutherford | Self-Help | Mental Health | Depression | Anxiety | Relationship Problems| Therapy

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2025-02-21

  434 SelfWork: Belonging and Community... Find It In A Third Space

Today we're going to focus on how to find community and belonging by finding or creating a "third space." What's that?Many of you don’t remember the 1983 hit show Cheers. It was about a local Boston bar run by a recovering alcoholic who was still very ...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2025-02-14

  433 SelfWork: Why Is It So Hard to Treat Eating Disorders? A Conversation with Johanna Kandel

Why is it so hard to treat eating disorders? We're going to find out today in this interview with Johanna Kandel, founder and director of the National Alliance for Eating Disorders.Kandel brings her own successful recovery from anorexia and bulimia to ...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2025-02-07

  432 SelfWork: Doctors and Depression: A Conversation with Dr. Pam Buchanan

Today the focus is on doctors and depression, with Dr. Pamela Buchanan as my guest, in a second episode in the "Careers That Kill" series, discussing medical providers, the pandemic, and depression.  She's a board-certified physician, speaker and thoug...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2025-01-31

  431 SelfWork: Optimism Fatigue: Is It A New Kind of Depression?

What is optimism fatigue? Is it a new a kind of depression?In this episode of SelfWork, I’m thinking aloud a bit with you … if what we’re experiencing is a new kind of depression – one that’s mixed in with anxiety and fatigue. What’s it called? Optimis...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2025-01-24

  430 SelfWork: What Was Your "Job" In Your Family?

What was your "job" in your family?Most of us love to take tests like the Enneagram or the Myers/Briggs to find out what the test might have to say about our personality style or our strengths and vulnerabilities. But something you might also gravitate...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2025-01-17

  429 SelfWork: Seven Good Reasons to Stop Therapy

What are seven good reasons to stop therapy? That's the focus of this week's SelfWork!It’s often a very moving moment when you leave therapy. Here’s someone that you’ve trusted and confided in for weeks or months – or sometimes even years. And it’s tim...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2025-01-10

  428 SelfWork: The Shame and Self-Blame Game

The focus today is on what I call "the shame and self-blame game."One listener told me recently that she wondered for a long time - “Did I allow my abuse?” How many of you feel to blame for your own abuse? And does that very shame and self-blame make i...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2025-01-03

  427 SelfWork: The Horrors of Marital Rape

We’re talking about sexual abuse today – to be more specific, the horrors of marital rape. Please if you have any kind of history of abuse which many of you I’m sure do – please listen cautiously as the facts of the case could be highly triggering for ...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2024-12-27

  426 SelfWork: You Only Die Once: A Conversation with Jodi Wellamn

You Only Die Once, written by positive psychologist Jodi Wellman, has this very important message - being aware of your last moment can help you live this one more fully.She's a devout believer in not wasting the time you have, not spending this moment...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author
2024-12-20

  425 SelfWork: Six Steps Out of Loneliness

 Today we’re going to talk about loneliness – and how one article I read drew some conclusions about it that made a lot of sense to me. One major point – we can’t or shouldn’t harken back to older times and think we need to create those now. That’s not...
  Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD author