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Sep 2020
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783: 4 Ways To Create Kindness With Your...

Optimal Living Daily | Greg Audino
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Dr. Margaret Rutherford shares 4 ways that couples can create kindness with one another.

Episode 783: 4 Ways To Create Kindness With Your Partner - Before Your Words Lead To Divorce by Dr. Margaret Rutherford

Dr. Margaret Rutherford has been a psychologist in private practice for over twenty-five years. She’s the author of “Perfectly Hidden Depression”, and hosts a weekly podcast, SelfWork with Dr. Margaret Rutherford, where she offers compassionate common-sense directions, ideas and goals toward the changes listeners want to make in healing. 

You can learn more about the book at: https://drmargaretrutherford.com/4-ways-to-create-kindness-with-your-partner-before-your-words-lead-to-divorce/

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