Factory Settings Podcast

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Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss pets this week. They talk about the ups and downs of pet ownership, their first pets, having traumatic experiences with pets, and how their dog Hope changed both …

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about the gifts they’ve found in sobriety. They discuss how they feel about the phrase “this too shall pass,” the relationship between stoicism and some of the AA teachings, recognizing that sobriety wouldn’t just automatically solve your problems, the…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss self-awareness this week. They debate whether self-awareness alone will help you change your subconscious patterns, bad habits and things that hold you back, the importance of building trust with yourself, humility vs. low self-esteem, overcoming fe…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist sit down to discuss being late bloomers. They talk about giving up on themselves, failing young, and how living in such a youthful culture can make it feel like you missed the boat if you haven’t gotten your career together and found the love of your life by…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about the “fuck its” this week. They discuss what they are, where they come from, how they fight them, and when they surrender to them. They cover maintaining a routine and allowing for slips off the beam, letting yourself down, getting the “fuck its” …

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, finish their discussion of the 3 pillars for mental and physical well-being by talking about exercise. They cover the sports they played as kids, how active they were, how active their parents were, when they actually had to start consciously focusing on ex…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about sleep as one of the 3 pillars for mental and physical well-being. They discuss how much sleep contributes to mental health - probably more than the average person realizes, what their sleeping patterns were like as children, what their sleeping p…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, explore the topic of creativity. They discuss what the word means to them, the preconceptions they have about being creative, what it means to go into a creative field professionally, and why creativity can be found in virtually every aspect of human experi…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss their relationships with food. They talk about how they were raised, what family meals looked like, whether or not they learned to cook, what their parents modeled for them about healthy eating, and what they’d like to model for their daughter. They…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk comedy, humor, and the ability to laugh at yourself. They talk about laughter as a factory setting, the infectious laughter of children, the comic strips, comedians, and shows that shaped their senses of humor, the attitude towards humor in their famil…