Factory Settings Podcast

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss leaving Los Angeles as they prepare to move to Texas. They share how many times they’ve moved in their lives and their different expectations and experiences; Jeren having lived in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years, and Bridget being a nomad most of h…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, contemplate meaning this week. They discuss when they first started thinking about meaning, the search for it, when your life can be defined by a lack of meaning, how they’ve found it in their lives, and true meaning vs. false meaning. They also cover the r…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about STUFF this episode. How much stuff most people have, particularly in America, what their relationship to stuff is, who likes to shop and who hates it, their mutual love of purging, keeping things you think you might need, and giving a thought for…

Due to popular demand, Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss AA slogans this week. They share the ones they love, the ones they hate, the ones they used to roll their eyes at but have come to embrace, and the ones they use every day. They break down the meaning and effectiveness of thei…

We Answer A Question Asked By A Supporter

Question: Since listening to this podcast, it seems that you and Jeren really use your recovery as something that you two can relate to each other and bonds you. My question is, how does someone like me who doesn't have a substance addiction and honestly doesn't quite understand addiction, relate to someone who t…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss body image in their latest episode. They cover the clinical definition of body dysmorphia, when they’ve felt their best and worst physically in their lives, fat shaming, the damage we can cause to others, Bridget’s struggle with gaining pregnancy we…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, share their personal primary education stories from K through 12th grade. They each talk about how many times they moved and/or switched schools and the effect it had on them, share their public vs. private school experiences, discuss how they both nearly f…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, an associate marriage & family therapist, debate whether trust in media is dead and whether anything could revive it. They discuss where they got their news growing up, why media corporations and channels have to define themselves as THE TRUTH and make you believe other media organizations are ly…

We Answer A Question Asked By A Phetasy Supporter

3 Part Question:

* Which factory setting has been the most difficult to overcome?

* Are there any that now that you are each around your midpoint of life and know yourselves as well as you do think aren't really solvable and just are and always will be?

* Since the term Factory Settings has a slightly critical un…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss the hardships of making friends as an adult. They talk about making friends as kids vs. making them as adults, the friendships they made as children that they’ve managed to maintain their entire lives, how moving every year and a half factored into …