A Real Couples Session: Fear The Relationship Will End & Self Soothing Childhood Wounds
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this real couples session, Brianna and Tanner discuss their communication challenges and the activations of their childhood wounds in their relationship. They explore how Brianna struggles with feeling heard and Tanner struggles with effectively communicating his feelings. John highlights the importance of taking ownership, creating a safe space, and self-soothing in order to overcome these challenges and build a stronger relationship.
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Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own |
| 0:04.3 | rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life |
| 0:08.9 | lessons and revelations. I believe in casual over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.4 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:21.2 | Okay, I'm I'm literally going straight from my car running into the house and then directly into a couple of sessions, which I love. I just love that people are flying from the sky. |
| 0:33.0 | Here's what we're gonna do, but first I just wanna say, |
| 0:38.0 | tell us how you met, because it has to do with my book being a playing Cupid or my work book |
| 0:46.0 | playing Cupid for you guys now. I let Tanner it's his favorite tagline. |
| 0:50.8 | Oh my gosh it is it is my favorite. I mean the short story is we did 31 days of single on purpose and then on day 32 we got together. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. and on day 32 we got together. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, so we had met, I mean, it was literally just a handshake, |
| 1:11.6 | um, through mutual friends and and I reached out to Bree and she I was like |
| 1:20.0 | hey let's get some coffee she's like, I'm going to Italy for seven weeks. |
| 1:25.3 | I was going on a single hood like soul searching thing. |
| 1:28.5 | So when the 31 people on purpose came out, |
| 1:31.3 | I was like, this is exactly what I need right now I just want to be alone and |
| 1:36.0 | so then that cultivated in Pittsburgh and then he joined and it kind of just went deeper from there honestly. |
| 1:46.0 | It's amazing how the universe cock blocks us, |
| 1:49.2 | especially when we're single. |
| 1:51.1 | And then we're dating someone. It's like, this is not what else I was going to go to Italy I was going to do my E, |
| 1:56.8 | pray love thing and then you know here I am now dating someone. |
| 2:00.6 | Oh it's funny she was gonna like she had a lease hold it for a place in Bali for like 12 months I was leaving in January this month and yeah I don't know it was different. We both you know everyone has history. We had a history and when we started talking it was just like wow |
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