Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most
Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most

Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most

Allen Berger & Thom Rutledge

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The Start Right HERE podcast was created because our world could use some therapy. From two bestselling authors and psychotherapists with more than 90 years of combined experience. Still standing, writing, and talking (And making sense the vast majority of the time). Start HERE emphasizes that mental and emotional well-being requires certain essential understandings and practices. The hosts demonstrate clearly how the same principles that they utilize in individual and relationship therapy also apply to the larger contexts of family, organizations, community and even government. The hosts are at times as much philosophical as psychological but never stray from their commitment to being practical. There will be “take-aways” from every episode – something to think about in a different way - and/or something new to try to improve your relationship with yourself, your friends, your family, and the bigger world surrounding us all. We encourage feedback so please email us anytime at [email protected] for any questions or comments!

Recent Episodes


                    Episode Thirty-Nine: Taking Care of Unfinished Business (Part Two)
APR 26, 2021
Episode Thirty-Nine: Taking Care of Unfinished Business (Part Two)
Conversation about how we are challenged in the present to attend to unfinished emotional business continues, with both Allen and Thom giving specific examples (personal and professional) of how this work plays out. Producer, Patrick Newman, asks about actually finishing what is unfinished and if there is a time when it is completed, which takes the conversation in the very important direction of understanding that the goal is not to "finish" but to continue to attend to what we become aware of.   The shift in attention is more a matter of process than it is content. The emotionally sober person accepts responsibility for facing and addressing what comes up, but need not feel compelled to search every corner of the psyche what might be unresolved. Once more, a common theme for this podcast emerges: life is to be lived only from the present moment. We are not required to understand everything that has gone on before, nor required to predict the future.   Opie disobeys his Pa in order to look good in his friends' eyes and learns a valuable lesson.   Pre-Order Allen Berger's new book, "12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety" here:  https://4dphd.com/product/12-essential-insights-for-emotional-sobriety/   Listeners could also benefit from this free download from Thom, describing INTRApersonal Change Process:  https://3f48999b-b083-4400-97b5-96c49b21a0e7.filesusr.com/ugd/e71801_bcea88c1cdd6458caa10058d8b169463.pdf   Join Allen & Thom at our Thursday night Zoom meeting on Emotional Sobriety and the Steps (login information below)   https://zoom.us/j/330149513 Password: 375986   We appreciate feedback! Contact us at [email protected] for any questions or comments.
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43 MIN
Episode Thirty-Nine: Taking Care of Unfinished Business (Part Two)
APR 26, 2021
Episode Thirty-Nine: Taking Care of Unfinished Business (Part Two)
Conversation about how we are challenged in the present to attend to unfinished emotional business continues, with both Allen and Thom giving specific examples (personal and professional) of how this work plays out. Producer, Patrick Newman, asks about actually finishing what is unfinished and if there is a time when it is completed, which takes the conversation in the very important direction of understanding that the goal is not to "finish" but to continue to attend to what we become aware of.   The shift in attention is more a matter of process than it is content. The emotionally sober person accepts responsibility for facing and addressing what comes up, but need not feel compelled to search every corner of the psyche what might be unresolved. Once more, a common theme for this podcast emerges: life is to be lived only from the present moment. We are not required to understand everything that has gone on before, nor required to predict the future.   Opie disobeys his Pa in order to look good in his friends' eyes and learns a valuable lesson.   Pre-Order Allen Berger's new book, "12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety" here:  https://4dphd.com/product/12-essential-insights-for-emotional-sobriety/   Listeners could also benefit from this free download from Thom, describing INTRApersonal Change Process:  https://3f48999b-b083-4400-97b5-96c49b21a0e7.filesusr.com/ugd/e71801_bcea88c1cdd6458caa10058d8b169463.pdf   Join Allen & Thom at our Thursday night Zoom meeting on Emotional Sobriety and the Steps (login information below)   https://zoom.us/j/330149513 Password: 375986   We appreciate feedback! Contact us at [email protected] for any questions or comments.
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43 MIN