After the Fire: How Our Homes Can Heal Us

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Today, John gets real about his journey of healing and growth. He talks about his childhood, what it was like navigating his cultural identity, and how past trauma shaped his idea of home. He shares the lessons he's learned along the way and why creating spaces for healing really matters. Feeling stuck, heartbroken, or just over the same old patterns? Join 7 Days to Reclaim Your Singlehood— a 7-day, $7 challenge to help you stop spiraling, reconnect with yourself, and build real momentum toward the life (and love) you actually want. Through daily prompts, mantras, and mindset shifts, you'll move from feeling stuck or heartbroken to grounded and empowered. Each day unlocks a new emotional breakthrough: Day 1 – The Mirror: Get honest with yourself and assess where your self-connection stands. Day 2 – I Am Not Lonely, I Am Becoming: Reframe loneliness and see it as part of your transformation. Day 3 – Redefining Self-Care: Strip away the Instagram fluff and find what true, nourishing self-care looks like. Day 4 – Detach to Connect: Identify and interrupt distorted thought patterns holding you back. Day 5 – Fuck It Friday: Give yourself permission to feel joy, rest, or play—guilt-free. Day 6 – The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: Spot limiting beliefs and begin rewriting your inner narrative. Day 7 – Write Your Self-Agreement: Declare a new, intentional relationship with yourself. This 7-day challenge starts April 22nd. Join now and start shifting today HERE Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose, HERE Jump into John’s new Single. On Purpose app HERE Follow John on Instagram HERE Find out more about John HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago,
0:06.1	and I've been documenting my journey ever since, sharing my life lessons and revelations.
0:10.9	I believe in casual over clinical, with you instead of at you.
0:14.2	I come unrehearsed on purpose because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:21.9	So the unthinkable has happened.
0:24.5	Again, first time our house brain down.
0:28.7	Now, doctor says, I gotta stop drinking coffee.
0:32.6	I gotta say, I don't know what's going on,
0:35.7	but when you get the message that you can't drink coffee anymore, that is proof that nothing in this world is forever.
0:48.3	But I got to say, there's something in me, and it's been brewing for a while.
0:57.1	Coffee lands differently these days, and this is how I know I'm changing when you don't like coffee as much as you used to something is definitely
1:01.5	evolving growing there is disruption there's something happening um I'm sipping tea now and and this is not, tea is not something that I do.
1:15.4	Anyway, so no more afternoon quartados, maybe one cup a day.
1:22.7	I used to drink, I mean, all day, I used to drink four or five cups of coffee. Anyway, this episode is
1:30.4	called Our House in the middle of the street. Rolling Heights, 1980s, the lawns were perfect,
1:37.3	not a blade out of place, fathers in sweat-stained undershirts watering their grass like it was
1:43.2	a religion.
1:48.0	White station wagons gleamed in every driveway.
1:52.6	Suburbia's promise, sameness equal safety.
1:55.7	We were the crack in the facade.
1:58.7	Our lawn sprouted weeds.
2:05.6	Our driveway stayed unpaved. We didn't know how to quote unquote maintain like white families, or maybe we just didn't care. The only Asians on the blog, we stocked our pantry
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