Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most
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Start Right Here: Conversations About What Matters Most
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 me...
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Episode Forty: How Do We Say Goodbye?
The first thing we’ll say to anyone who has listened to any of our episodes to date is a BIG THANK YOU. We are not going anywhere but we are transitio...
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...
Episode Thirty-Eight: Taking Care of Unfinished Business (Part One)
Allen, Thom and Patrick all share their personal experiences to shed light on the therapeutic work of investigating our past as a way of helping to re...
Episode Thirty-Seven: What Can We Learn Together About Putting Support to Work in Our Lives?
Allen, Thom & Patrick are joined by two of the participants in the Thursday evening Emotional Sobriety Support Group -- Carol and Craig -- to discuss...
Episode Thirty-Six: Former Lives, Wisdom & Hindsight
Allen & Thom do a deep dive this week into their raw formative periods, underlining how the pain and complications of their pasts contributed to the m...
Episode Thirty-Five: How Can We Manage Our Flagging Self-Esteem? (Part Two)
Allen and Thom deepen their conversation from the previous episode about the actions we can all take to improve our self-esteem, emphasizing that conc...
Episode Thirty-Four: How Can We Manage Our Flagging Self-Esteem? (Part One)
This week we dig into questions of self-esteem, self-respect and self-worth. Unpacking why these are so hard to come by for some people, and discussin...
Episode Thirty-Three: How Can We Find Our Way Through & Beyond Trauma? (with Dr. Nadine Macaluso)
Dr. Nadine Macaluso, psychologist & ex-wife of The infamous Wolf of Wall Street, joins the conversation. She shares some of her personal story - from...
Episode Thirty-Two: What Actions Can We Take When Life Doesn't Go Our Way? (Part Two)
Allen, Thom and Patrick continue their conversation from last episode, making the point that “anybody can have a good day on a good day,” but it reall...
Episode Thirty-One: What Actions Can We Take When Life Doesn't Go Our Way? (Part One)
Allen, Thom and Patrick share some of their responses to the recent Senate impeachment trial of the former president, including a celebration of the e...
Episode Thirty: How Can We Patch up Relationships Damaged by Political Differences?
Dr. Michael McGee returns this week for an episode more focused on our fractured politics - how they’re expressed in our warring political parties, an...
Episode Twenty-Nine: How Can We Bring About a Spiritual Awakening? With Dr. Michael McGee, M.D.
Psychiatrist Dr. Michael McGee joins the conversation, talking first about his approach to prescribing medication to his patients. Dr. McGee says that...
Episode Twenty-Eight: How Do We Move Forward in the Wake of Biden’s Inauguration?
Allen, Thom and Patrick continue the conversation about how we can contribute to the national healing while a global pandemic still rages, in the afte...
Episode Twenty-Seven: What Can The US Capitol Attack Teach Us About Ourselves? (Part Two)
Therapist and author Dr. John Amodeo joins us in conversation about the attack on the Capitol and how we might be able to contribute to healing. Much...
Episode Twenty-Six: What Can The US Capitol Attack Teach Us About Ourselves? (Part One)
The conversation begins this week with Thom discussing his experience with the publication of his book, Embracing Fear - shortly after the terrorist a...
Episode Twenty-Five: What Have We Learned in 2020, and How Do We Move Forward in 2021? (with Mary Gordon)
Mary Gordon MA, LAADC, ICAADC shares her experiences as Director of The Betty Ford Center family program (among other things) in this discussion with...
Special Episode: How To Avoid Messing Up The Holidays!
In the spirit of Allen’s 12-counts (12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery, 12 Smart Things To Do When the Booze & Drugs are Gone, 12 Hidden Rewards t...
Episode Twenty-Three: What Can Robyn Goldberg Teach Us About ’The Eating Disorder Trap’?
Robyn Goldberg, CEDRD-S has been working as a nutritionist in a variety of settings for 23 years. She specializes in medical conditions, disordered ea...
Episode Twenty-Two: What Can Dr. Ericha Scott Teach Us About The Healing Power Of Creativity?
Ericha Scott, Ph.D. is Allen’s and Thom’s guest for this episode. Dr. Scott is a Fellow for the International Society of Study of Trauma & Dissociatio...
Episode Twenty-One: What Can Sherry Gaba Teach Us About Being "Love Smacked"?
Allen and Thom welcome Sherry Gaba, LCSW and Author of Love Smacked: How to Stop the Cycle of Relationship Addiction and Codependency to find Everlast...
Episode Twenty: How Can We Stop Ourselves From Taking Things Personally? (Part Two)
Allen and Thom pick the conversation up where they left off last week, by clarifying that taking something personally does not mean that we don’t care...
Episode Nineteen: How Can We Stop Ourselves From Taking Things Personally? (Part One)
Dr. Berger opens this week's episode by discussing how he and his family tested positive for COVID-19 despite practicing safety protocols. They are on...
Episode Eighteen: What Does Joe Biden Mean When He Talks About Healing Our Nation?
Or...how can we get Uncle Sam into therapy?
The topic we had originally planne for today was how to not take things personally, but Allen and Th...
Episode Seventeen - What Can We Learn About Blame and Responsibility? (Feat. Dr. John Amodeo)
Allen and Thom welcome their colleague and friend, Dr. John Amodeo, to discuss the problems that arise when we become stuck in blame of others or self...
Episode Sixteen: How Do We Accept What We Cannot Change? (Part Two)
Allen and Thom focus on resistance to acceptance and quickly discover that resistance may not be the best way to understand our difficulty with accept...
Episode Fifteen: How Do We Accept What We Cannot Change? (Part One)
Acceptance and agreement are two very different things. Allen and Thom clarify that we are faced with the challenge of acceptance when the only other...
Episode Fourteen: Confessions of Two Aging Psychotherapists
Allen & Thom have decided to confess. Each host tells stories of mistakes and bloopers from their 40+ year careers. Some heavy, some silly, some just...
Episode Thirteen: How Do We Maintain a Healthy Relationship with Our Authentic Selves?
The conversation is moving from what we need/want to recover from (INTRApersonal culprits such as self-condemnation, persistent anxiety, perfectionism...
Episode Twelve: How Can We Have a Healthy Relationship with Ourselves? (Part Two)
The conversation about how to have a healthy relationship with our authentic self continues.
Allen and Thom share some personal experiences with...
Episode Eleven: How Can We Have a Healthy Relationship with Ourselves? (Part One)
This week, Thom and Allen discuss the practical ways we can get in touch with the healthier parts of ourselves. Part one of two.
Start Here Episode Ten - How Can We Beat The Curse of Perfectionism - Pt. 2
Allen and Thom very specifically define perfectionism, distinguishing it from how it is often misconstrued. An emphasis is placed on how understanding...
Start Here Episode Nine - How Can We Beat The Curse of Perfectionism? (Part One)
Allen and Thom discuss the origins of perfectionism, from a perspective of our natural need to be loved, to be accepted and to belong, and how, for ma...
Episode Eight: How Can We Hold Onto Ourselves In Relationships?
We begin this session by fine-tuning the name of our podcast. Start HERE becomes Start Right HERE. We want our listeners to be able to apply what we a...
Episode Seven: How Do We Allow Ourselves to Heal?
In this week's episode, Thom and Allen discuss "organismic balance," how we move towards "next," and how we can begin the healing process after enduri...
Episode Six: The Authentic Self
Multiplicity is the essence of consciousness, not singularity. In parsing our many inner voices, we strive to locate our authentic selves in all the s...
Episode Five: Negotiating Inner Voices (Part Two)
Allen and Thom continue their conversation about mediating our conflicting inner voices. They discuss the practical benefit of assigning names to thes...