Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery
Episodes
Episode Twenty-One: Realizing That Nobody Is Coming
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More on self support versus environmental support in recovery. How do we hold onto ourselves in relationships? Being present but also independent. All...
Episode Twenty: Knowing It’s Not Personal (Part Three)
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now that we’ve keyed into the ways we can sabotage ourselves by taking things personally, this episode focuses on practical methods (with specific e...
Episode Nineteen: Knowing It’s Not Personal (Part Two)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Allen returns this week to deepen discussion of not taking things personally. Suffering what isn’t, appreciating what is. Listening to the “second...
Episode Eighteen: Remembering and Recovering from 9/11
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thom and Patrick process thoughts and feelings about the 20th Anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, specifically remembering tha...
Episode Seventeen: Knowing It’s Not Personal (Part One)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning discussion of Chapter 6 of Dr. Berger's Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety. Focus is on what it means and how we are impacted when we...
Episode Sixteen: Discerning Our Emotional Dependency (Part Two)
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our exploration of Chapter 5 in Dr. Berger's new book. Today we focus on what it means to have and to maintain an emotional “center of gr...
Episode Fifteen: Discerning Our Emotional Dependency (Part One)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's vital to acknowledge with self-compassion that whatever emotional dependencies we are experiencing, we come by those honestly. When we can become...
Episode Fourteen: Living Life Consciously
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we move to chapter four of Allen's new book, emphasizing the healing power of awareness and the challenges of becoming aware of new possibilitie...
Episode Thirteen: Waking Up From Our Sleepwalking
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we dive into the third chapter of Allen’s book, with an emphasis on willingness to move toward discomfort in our journey towards demolishi...
Episode Twelve: Asking for Help, Taking What’s Helpful, Leaving What’s Not.
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Quality, long term recovery requires that we build a solid support system, both interpersonally and INTRApersonally (including inner Recovery Voice)....
Episode Eleven: Exploring Emotional Sobriety (Part Three)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our discussion of Chapter 2 in Allen's book continues, with an emphasis on the importance of practicing self-awareness especially in terms of establis...
Episode Ten: Exploring Emotional Sobriety (Part Two)
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In continuing to define emotional sobriety, we delve into what is meant by The False Self and The True Self. Includes an exploration of family-of-orig...
Episode Nine: Exploring Emotional Sobriety (Part One)
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing focus on Dr. Berger's new book. In this episode, discussion moves to the second chapter, "Exploring Emotional Sobriety." We invite listener...
Episode Eight: Being Stuck and Getting Unstuck
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With plans to move chapter-by-chapter (with exciting new guests!) through 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety, Allen & Thom unpack what ...
Talking to Our Inner Child (A Rutledge "Nutshell")
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Conversing with our inner child: What Thom believes it is, and what it isn’t. Patrick relates his firsthand experience doing this work in his own tr...
Episode Seven: The Value of Flexibility
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Allen Berger returns this week, with plenty to say about how living in emotional sobriety requires that we nurture a sense of curiosity (primary i...