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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Anger is a Reaction To Your Past

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about how feelings of anger has more to do with our past than our present.




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.





Transcript

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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

0:05.6

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

0:10.4

I believe in casual or 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.

0:21.0

What do you think of this statement? Your anger is a response from your past or your

0:28.8

anger is a response to your past. I think it's a really interesting statement because I think most people

0:37.2

think that the anger or rage is a direct response to something that's happening now and it's kind of like

0:48.0

the tip of the iceberg poster where you see the tip of the iceberg and that's kind of all you see and then what you don't see is the entire mountain underneath the water.

1:00.0

And I think that anger and rage can be like that in that we assume that we're

1:05.8

angry about what just happened and we don't investigate or explore the rest of the mountain.

1:15.0

We just see the tip, right?

1:17.0

Let me tell you a quick story.

1:20.0

So when I was in my 20s, and I might have mentioned this before and I'm sure in one of my

1:26.9

podcasts it's just a great example and so I use it often.

1:33.0

So in my 20s I was working at our family restaurant and business wasn't too good.

1:41.0

I was pursuing screenwriting at the time and the laptop was a brand new invention.

1:49.1

This this a computer that you could actually you know carry around that was portable and I

1:56.7

remember thinking to myself oh I need one of these but they were really expensive and I

2:01.6

ran to this guy who he was selling laptops out of the trunk of his car and you know

2:09.2

He admitted that they were stolen, but I could give you a laptop for 500 bucks.

2:13.4

And I think at the time they were like two or three grand.

2:15.5

They were really expensive.

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