Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, tackle the topic of porn this week. They discuss their first exposure to it as kids, how much access to it has changed since then, the pornification of everything, Bridget’s short-term addiction to it, and whether or not it’s possible to have a healthy rela…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about love and relationships for Valentine’s Day. They share their first “spark” moment, and how their first date had them literally walking down an aisle together, their past relationships, previous marriages, confusing lust for love, wanting a love a…

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Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss money and financial anxiety this week. The talk about their first awareness of money, the roles their parents’ divorces played in financial stress, the dichotomy of being stressed about money and also being aware of how good they have it, how much o…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about therapy this week. They share their own experiences with therapy and how effective it’s been for them, what made Jeren want to become a therapist, the difference between understanding something, being self-aware, and allowing those emotions to be…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, dissect self-disclosure in both private and public spaces in this week’s episode. They cover self-disclosure in our culture, the rise of therapy, how if you self-disclose publicly you’re opening yourself up to other people’s opinions and interpretations of …

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss social media this week. They both share their first interactions on social media, when they started to be immersed in the online world, Buddyhead, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit & Instagram. Bridget talks about the surprising impact Dane Cook ha…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, sit down to discuss commitment this week. They talk about what comes to mind when they hear the word commitment, how Bridget ran from it for years, and how their parents’ marriages, divorces, and their mothers in particular affected their views on commitmen…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about willingness this week, both as a concept and in practice. Bridget acknowledges a tiny window of willingness that came at the right moment that led to her getting sober, and they discuss what that meant for her life, what the definition of willin…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about goals and resolutions in anticipation of the New Year. They discuss setting goals and creating systems that help support those goals, their relationships with discipline and organization, ambition and creativity, learning to bend before you break…