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109

Keeping Cool with Carol Carter
On a weekend of record heatwaves, to escape the crushing anxiety Thom and Patrick invite longtime collaborator Carol Carter on the pod to gauge...
108

Change Calls the Tune We Dance To
As much as we strive to cultivate our emotional sobriety, learning to lean on self-support rather than environmental support, those expectations and rules inevitably...
107

Let Fear Be Your Teacher
Health care and financial insecurity are just a couple of the subjects Thom, Joe, and Patrick touch on as they contemplate how life’s most...
106

Emotional Sobriety & Self-Respect
What does it mean to respect ourselves, and how can we put it to work once we’ve attained some physical sobriety and begin to...
105

Every Life Is Worth a Novel
Allen references Erving Polster’s book while contemplating how the broad span of our lives have a dramatic richness and fullness that can illuminate crucial...
104

Depression's Long Game
Picking up with Thom Rutledge about his recent struggles with depression, something that’s been with him since his early days of recovery. This form...