Changing lifelong patterns involves daily practice - for as long as it takes - to recover the positive self-esteem and self-compassion that are essential to personal progress. In Practice Makes Practice, Thom Rutledge examines the power of awareness and offers exercises to help listeners recognize parts of themselves, deal with the "should monster," and create a way to tolerate pleasure in their lives.
Thom Rutledge has been a psychotherapist for 25 years. He combines his professional expertise with his personal experience in recovery from alcoholism and depression to teach others how to face the fears and negativity that stand between them and the lives they want to live.
As a writer, a speaker, or a talk show guest, Thom's presentation of very serious matters is packaged in his trademark sense of humor.
Thom's latest book is Embracing Fear (HarperOne). Visit his main web site, thomrutledge.com, and his new site, created to register his objections and concerns about the runaway best selling dvd/book project, The Secret: thesecretantidote.com."