A Real Couples Session: How to Make It Work Against All Odds
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this real couples session, Brianna and Tanner come back to discuss the changes in their drinking habits and the positive impact it has had on their relationship. They express their desire to work on individual goals, such as better communication and overcoming fear. They explore the importance of taking a beat before responding and understanding each other's triggers. They also discuss the weight of not wanting to screw up the relationship and the fear of losing each other.
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-health doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:21.4 | So let me ask you since we spoke last what's been different or has there been anything |
| 0:28.0 | different? |
| 0:32.0 | Different. I don't think different because we were talking a lot about specific instances with alcohol. |
| 0:38.0 | And we haven't drank in the last week at almost. |
| 0:44.0 | So the fact that you haven't drank, what's the ripple from that? |
| 0:49.0 | Have the energy and relationship different? |
| 0:52.0 | Things good, bad, boring, like... the energy and relationship different things good bad boring like everything's been really great |
| 0:56.7 | It was really interesting some of the thoughts you brought up just how we could tackle just regular life situations in a different way and in a more positive way off the bat. |
| 1:07.0 | So yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | Things have been good in the last week, so no conflict. |
| 1:15.0 | What do you guys want to work on individually? |
| 1:20.0 | So let's, Brianna, start with you. |
| 1:22.0 | Sure. |
| 1:23.8 | I think I would still like to, you know, obviously when we get together with friends or |
| 1:30.0 | family we will have a drink or two, but I would like to work on owning my own I don't know if it's |
| 1:38.7 | a if it's necessarily a trigger but my the fear I get around alcohol when I start to feel unsafe even though it's |
| 1:45.1 | unrelated and being better at communicating that I feel like I've tended to be a little passive when I first bring it up so just being |
| 1:56.0 | honest and real like I'm just starting to feel this way. Have you um do you go to Elinon or have you been to any of those Elinon meetings? |
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