A Real Couples Session - Trauma Bonds & "Wait, You Didn't Tell Him This Was Going To Be Recorded?!"

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this real couples session, John speaks with Bri about her on-and-off relationship with Doug. They discuss their trauma bond, the challenges they faced, and the possibility of giving their relationship another chance. Bri expresses her desire to heal past hurts, build trust, and set boundaries. John emphasizes the importance of open communication, understanding triggers, and creating new experiences to lay the foundation for a healthy relationship.

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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Transcript

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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 or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.5	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:21.0	Welcome, um, just real quick Welcome just for consent. This is going to be an episode of my podcast. The point is to just
0:32.4	share stories and what other couples are struggling with to help
0:34.7	other people and my podcast is attached to my YouTube so some clips on social I just
0:41.8	want to make sure you guys are okay with that. Oh, Doug just heard
0:44.9	camera. Hey, hey, this is recorded. Yes, it's recording now. You can say no and we we could stop but you could also do it with
0:54.3	the camera off and we just hear your voice I'm cool with that as well.
0:57.0	All right yeah. Listen listen listen because I don't want to go 40 minutes and then someone changes their mind because that's happening as well.
1:06.6	And then we've all kind of like wasted time. I mean I wouldn't say wasted time, but you know what I'm saying?
1:11.6	Yeah, yeah, I don't really know anything about it.
1:14.0	Bree just sent me this link so I guess I didn't know it was pocket.
1:18.0	Like all that you just told me was news to me.
1:20.0	Oh, yeah, where are you out of?
1:23.0	Wait, wait, Doug, there's a huge echo, but Bree, you didn't tell him that this was going to be, you didn't
1:28.1	any of that? That's...
1:30.1	Um, I guess I didn't. I thought I sent him the link. You sent me the link I just got off work like I was like hey can you join this this guys really good.
1:40.5	Doug well I want to give you a second because that's not it's not really I don't want you to feel
1:45.2	blindsided or that this was a trick or an intervention so if if Doug if you're like yeah I don't feel it, it's totally okay.
1:54.0	You could also hop off and I could have a short conversation with Bree, but yeah, I don't want to pressure.
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