022 SelfWork: How To Not Hate Your Body
Eating disorders and body image problems are rampant in our culture, with good reason. We are pummeled with images of the “acceptable” body, which is much younger, fitter, and probably photo-shopped. ...
17 Mai 201725min
021 SelfWork: The Ten Traits Of Perfectly Hidden Depression
If you’re an expert at hiding emotional pain, and do it almost perfectly, then this episode is likely to speak to you. Dr. Margaret has been researching and writing about a syndrome she calls Perfectl...
10 Mai 201724min
020 SelfWork: Why Risk Vulnerability?
Vulnerability is the presence of a sensitivity, a painful hurt or a struggle. In this episode of SelfWork, Dr. Margaret explores how recognizing your vulnerability is pragmatically important in managi...
30 Apr 201721min
019 SelfWork: Narcissism And How To Cope With It
Understanding narcissism is difficult. But if you’re a person who’s trying to love someone with a lack of empathy, the tendency to be quite self-involved, and to need an incredible amount of attention...
23 Apr 201721min
018 SelfWork: Facing Change – Both Welcome And Unwelcome
Change, whether it’s welcome and wanted, or unwelcome and difficult, involves stress. Today’s podcast is about living with both kinds, as well as the sometimes bizarre ways people try to avoid the rea...
13 Apr 201724min
017 SelfWork: How Do We Fight The Stigma Of Mental Illness
What do Bruce Springsteen (The Boss), Jay Guillermo (collegiate football player), Kid Cude (rapper) and Princess Diana (not the Disney kind) all have in common? They’ve suffered with chronic mental il...
6 Apr 201724min
016 SelfWork: What Is So Hard About Couples Therapy?
Individual therapy can be emotionally difficult, although well worth it. Couples therapy? In some ways, it’s even harder, as two people who are more or less demoralized try to remedy problems that hav...
27 Mar 201721min
015 SelfWork: What Keeps You From Leaving
Abusive relationships, whether the abuse is emotional, physical or sexual, can be extremely difficult to leave. Yet many people will shrug their shoulders, saying, “If someone treated me like that, I’...
21 Mar 201720min
