Break Up Stories
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John shares his and his clients break up stories (with their permission), and gives advice on what to do if you're experiencing, or going through a break up.
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. |
| 0:21.9 | Before we get into this breakup story because so many of you are going through what I call |
| 0:27.6 | an expired relationship and of course that's a reframe I don't want to minimize what you went through or two people giving hearts |
| 0:36.6 | and souls to something because some people have a problem with the term expired relationships are not like milk I get it |
| 0:45.7 | but if you're going through a breakup or an expired relationship one of the things |
| 0:50.6 | that really has helped me is just hearing other people's stories. |
| 0:55.0 | So I'm going to share with you a story. |
| 0:57.8 | It's a client story, of course anonymous. |
| 1:01.4 | But before I do, just want to remind you if you're tired of ads on my |
| 1:05.9 | podcast and you want four bonus episodes a month, you could sign up for my premium. It's super inexpensive. It's like, I think it's like five bucks a month. |
| 1:17.0 | Just go to the angry therapist.com forward slash premium. |
| 1:21.0 | The angry therapist.com forward slash premium. The angry therapist.com forward slash premium. Okay. This story is called |
| 1:27.3 | help. I'm dying. Spencer called the suicide hotline twice. |
| 1:33.0 | Although he never got along with his mom |
| 1:36.0 | and everyone knew that, they shared a special kind of closeness |
| 1:40.0 | no one could truly understand. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, unless you were also raised by a young |
| 1:44.3 | single mom with no tools who wasn't ready for a quote-unquote difficult son. |
| 1:49.6 | What formed was a sticky kind of dysfunctional relationship bond that leads to Al-Anon meetings as an adult. |
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