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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

On today's show, I'm bringing back a popular guest, Tom Rutledge, my friend and colleague who is a LCSW, a psychotherapist, an author, and a speaker, and his bio goes on for miles, but I do want to tell you that he has experienced both

sides of the therapeutic relationship not only as a clinician but also as a client

he blends his personal recovery from depression, addiction, and excessive self-criticism with 30 years of professional experience to guide his clients, readers, and audiences from self-judgment

and perfectionism toward genuine self-compassion.

Tom's trademark sense of humor, a down-to-earth practicality, and his own compassion are the common

threads that run throughout his unique brand of self-help psychology, intrapersonal therapy.

I really am happy to have Tom with me again,

and he is the author of a number of books.

I want to just mention those books here. Embracing Fear. of Jenny Schaefer of Life Without Ed and that's how I first found Tom back in my

eating disorder nutrition days. If you are interested in any of those books they will

be the link to Tom and all of his great info will be in the show notes. Please be sure to check the show notes out and visit Tom's website which is Tom Rutledge.com that's T-H-O-M-R-U-T-L-E-G-E dot com and we're to talk about his book, What Love is. And I hope that you might consider

looking at that with this Valentine holiday coming about. So without further or do, let's get going with Tom.

Tom, it's so nice to have you with me today. I always appreciate when we can have some time to get our mics together and

chat and I want to have everyone who's listening learn about this new book that you have.

I know what I realized Dean I'm first of all I

really I always love talking to you so I appreciate doing this so much fun and

who knows who may be helpful to people, right? We have fun.

And it's like, yeah, but I didn't anticipate

is writing a book called What Love is,

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