A Real Couples Session - Unseen / Unappreciated with Two Kids, & Helping with Mental Loads

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful conversation, John does a live couples session with Jenny and Sean and discuss the challenges they face as parents and partners. They explore topics such as struggling with identity and grief, balancing work and parenting, communicating and resolving conflict, past trauma and insecurities, the impact of previous relationships, the desire for appreciation and validation, recognizing each other's needs, improving communication and understanding, feeling invisible and overlooked, seeking acknowledgment and respect, creating space and showing appreciation, and prioritizing 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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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
0:16.2	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:21.8	Okay, so, before we begin, just a, so my consent form is verbal and is basically acknowledging
0:31.0	that you guys are doing this, course to share your story and help other people
0:35.6	and then it'll be a series on my podcast as well as YouTube and you know some
0:42.4	clips on social.
0:43.4	Yeah.
0:44.4	Awesome. Okay, I am a little different as far as a couple's therapists in that
0:52.4	I wear the hat of a relationship coach and of course
0:56.0	with a clinical background being a therapist I tend to be more direct so I don't know
1:00.9	how that's going to land for you guys. We have 50 minutes and I'm very, I think that the time is precious so I don't I don't assume that you guys are coming back so what I mean by that is
1:17.6	I don't just assume that this is going to be 50 sessions and we'll you know I try to get to the root of things as fast as I can. But you direct me, let me know if, like,
1:29.2	do, relax or, you know, the pacing, because it's your session that might.
1:34.0	Cool. All right. Where do you guys want to start? I always let the clients lead if you guys
1:39.8	You guys pick who who wants to speak first and you can you can either go directly into some of the issues you guys are having today or give us some broad strokes of how you guys met.
1:50.0	What have you want to do?
1:57.0	I will start. That's me. I we had a baby nine months ago. We had a baby nine months ago so it's our second baby.
2:02.0	Yeah and I'm we're old like we're not
2:07.0	older but we're considered older in the Western world. Yes. I'm 40 and Sean's 49 and I was telling Sean this past Christmas
2:18.0	that I really struggled with becoming a parent in this stage because I'm sort of in this liminal space in which my identity with the social circle I've come to know my whole life is really hard to identify with because either their kids are grown or maybe
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