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Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery

Allen Berger, Thom Rutledge

Booking Overview

An interview-led recovery and mental-health podcast focused on emotional sobriety, addiction recovery, psychotherapy, and 12-step principles, with mostly host-led episodes and occasional external guests such as authors and people with lived recovery experience. PR agencies could credibly pitch addiction-recovery authors, psychotherapists, treatment professionals, and qualified recovery advocates with substantive personal or professional expertise; booking difficulty is low because the show favors accessible specialists and lived-experience voices rather than highly prominent public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 200

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.3/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 3.6k subscribers

Instagram: 1.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@emotionalsobriety.info

pndirective4@gmail.com

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Host

Allen Berger - Psychotherapist and author focused on emotional sobriety, recovery, and the psychological application of 12-step principles. He wrote 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety.

Thom Rutledge - Psychotherapist and bestselling author focused on emotional sobriety, addiction recovery, relationships, and personal development.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Psychotherapists, addiction-treatment professionals, recovery authors, and credible advocates with substantial lived experience of addiction, codependency, or emotional recovery.
Required Achievements:  
Published books on addiction recovery, emotional sobriety, or psychotherapy, Professional experience in psychotherapy, addiction treatment, or recovery support, Long-term personal recovery experience with a thoughtful perspective on emotional sobriety

Recent Guest Discussions

Daniel Fulop-Furlano - The Gradual Process Of Waking Up In Recovery, Treatment, Emotional Sobriety, Self-acceptance, And Building A Life After Addiction.

Carol Carter - Acceptance, Authenticity, Self-love, And Learning To Live And Love Differently In Recovery.

Recent Topics

Health, Mental Health, Addiction Recovery, Psychotherapy, 12 Step Recovery

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery
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Don’t Let Anyone Edit Your Reality

October 08, 2026

Thom’s Nutshell: Be realistic about rejection. Don’t take things personally! Staying in equanimity, being less reactive are some primary goals of emotional sobriety. We aren’t sick, we’re stuck. Allen uses the example of a loved one failing to show up for him at a critical moment to demonstrate how dependency works. We keep authorship of our experience in our own hands by differentiating. Can we keep our center of gravity over our own two feet, regardless of what happens? Joe C. asks in the s...

Responsibility Over Blame

September 29, 2026

Thom’s Nutshell: Serious condition: I’ll be okay as soon as that thing that happened to me didn’t happen to me. There’s a difference between blame and responsibility. Blame comes from “low differentiation,” or a low level of emotional maturity. It’s a sign of where we’re stuck in our development-fused with our environments. Taking responsibility, conversely, empowers us. It gives us more possibilities, brings in enthusiasm and zeal. We’re working towards self-support, where we act for ourselv...

“Waking Up Is a Process” with Daniel Fulop-Furlano

September 10, 2026

Thom’s Nutshell: "Self-denial results in dependence. Self-acceptance creates independence." Waking up is a process, not an event. A road back to our true lost selves. Daniel Fulop-Furlano joins Allen to talk about his journey towards emotional sobriety, which began with the “Divided Sky” rehab retreat in Ludlow, Vermont. Dan’s book, “Sincerely, Delusional,” is a testament to both the sincerity of his delusion (which we also call “sleepwalking”), and the capacity, beginning with an earnest as...

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