516 SelfWork: Panicked About Panic: 5 Surefire Ways to Calm Your Nervous System
Having a panic disorder is bad enough. You may be able to anticipate it happening; for example, if you tend to panic when you see a spider o...
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SelfWork with Dr. Margaret Rutherford | Self-Help | Mental Health | Depression | Anxiety | Relationship Problems| Therapy
Welcome to SelfWork! Do you have things in your life you want to change, but you struggle to believe you can? Dr. Margaret has a direct, down-to-earth approach to therapy and treatment, and...
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20 of 566 episodes515 SelfWork: Enhance Your Skills: Listening Someone Into Existence with Doug Noll
Today we'll focus on how to listen to someone so that they feel truly understood and seen. And it may not be a kind of listening that you kn...
514 SelfWork: Three Essential Questions to Identify Your Role Model
Today I'm focusing on three role models in my own life and the questions you can ask to help you identify your own. Dolly Parton. Maya Angel...
513 SelfWork: Inside A Psych Ward: A New Book by JaKob Williams, Chock Full of Nuts
You may never have been on the inside of a psych ward. In his new book, JaKob Williams takes you there. Or at least, he takes you to his ver...
512 SelfWork: CBT for Insomnia and Its 100% Effective Cure: Dr. Nick Wignall
Dr. Nick Wignall continues as Dr. Margaret's guest this week, as we switch from focusing on emotional fitness to the 100% effective CBT tool...
511 SelfWork: Emotional Fitness and Being The Hero Of Your Own Life: Dr. Nick Wignall
Dr. Nick Wignall speaks about the vital importance of emotional fitness and becoming the hero of your life. This whole concept is intriguing...
510 SelfWork: Ted Lasso, The Pandemic and The Power of Secrets
This week – in fact to be punctual about it – on August 5th, 2026 – the first episode of the new Ted Lasso season was released. Today, we're...
509 SelfWork: EMDR Therapy: How It Can Help Fill Emptiness and Release Grief with Dr. Laurel Parnell
EMDR Therapy is known for its treatment of trauma. Dr. Laurel Parnell teaches and demonstrates how it can be healing for emptiness and grief...
508 SelfWork: The Eye-Opening Grief of Disillusionment and Heartbreak
Disillusionment is defined in psychology as a "belief collapse." And the grief that that implosion can cause can be very hard to work throug...
507 SelfWork: How to Effectively Talk To A Perfectionist
The subject for today is how to talk with a perfectionist about your concern for them. Or if you’re the perfectionist, how to allow someone...
506 SelfWork: Therapy Harm: Straight Talk with Dr. Patricia Dixon
Today psychologist and mental health advocate Dr. Patricia Dixon is shedding light on the often misunderstood concept of “therapy harm.” She...
505 SelfWork: What's The Most Recent News For Depression Sufferers in 2026?
What's the most recent news for depression sufferers in 2026? That's the question Dr. Margaret researched today. Some new treatments are ava...
504 SelfWork: Your Questions and Answers: Is Anorexia Back "In", Borderline Moms, and Mother/Son Enmeshment
Dr. Margaret will focus today on questions and answers that listeners have sent her by either voicemail or email. First topic for today: Is...
503 SelfWork: Important Insights Into How to Interpret the Enneagram with Courtney Smith
Our expert speaker is Courtney Smith, who's a coach, group facilitator, and consultant who works with individuals and Fortune 500 companies...
502 SelfWork: The Medical and Mental Trauma of Chronic Invisible Illness with Amy Kurtz
194 million Americans–more than 76 percent of the population–are living with chronic illness. Many eventually stabilize, but what happens wh...
Introducing How To!: “How To Take Psychedelics for Your Mental Health with Dr. Will Van Derveer”
This week we’re sharing a special episode from our friends at How To! , the 2026 Ambie Award-nominated “Best Personal Growth Podcast” that’s...
501 SelfWork: Cultural Humility: What It Takes To Walk in Someone Else's Shoes
Dr. Margaret focuses today on the vital importance of what’s termed “cultural humility” as she responds to a listener voicemail, pointing ou...
500 SelfWork: Paul Gilmartin On Healing from Maternal Sexual Abuse
It’s a little hard to describe Paul Gilmartin. He's worked as a stand-up comic. He makes furniture. And he's a maternal abuse survivor. To a...
499 SelfWork: Emotional Martyrdom: It's Different Than Self-Sacrifice
Recently, I got a comment on the questionnaire blogpost on perfectly hidden depression - from a woman whose every word convinced me that the...
498 SelfWork: Plastic Surgery: Understanding Its Psychological Side with Dr. Rady Rahban
Today we're focusing on the psychological side of plastic surgery. This interview with renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Rady Rahban answers all...