Confessions from The Miserable F*cks Retreat
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John does a "pass the mic," and asks the people who attended his Miserable F*cks Trauma retreat to share what they learned and what promise they're going to make and keep for themselves.
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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. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm at my miserable flux retreat. This is a trauma addition with my good friend |
| 0:26.4 | Dr. M. C and we are doing our last session and I thought it would be cool to |
| 0:30.3 | pass it around the microphone and use the collective where each person can share a quick story, |
| 0:39.0 | insight, revelation, anything that they think can help you also may be a reminder but I thought so I have |
| 0:48.1 | a chocolate bar here and you know how in church you you you this is not religious but you know in church you go you yes |
| 0:56.0 | body of Christ with a so you so this is going to be like a I'm starting a cult this is |
| 1:01.8 | day one it's gonna be like a baptism and so you're going to take a piece of chocolate and you're going to eat it and you're going to announce to me and my listeners. No, these are normal chocolates |
| 1:16.2 | what your promise to yourself is going to be and then after that you can share |
| 1:21.0 | something for one or two minutes. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, you know what, you know what, |
| 1:25.0 | real quick, you know what it's also really good about the talking stick? |
| 1:27.0 | This is a great therapeutic tool when you're fighting. |
| 1:30.0 | No, no joke. |
| 1:32.0 | So what you do, Vanessa I have used it. It doesn't have to be a micro, have a stick. So if you're holding the stick, you're the only person I'll talk. And then no one's cutting each other off and you know, yeah. |
| 1:42.3 | You're gonna talk like chocolate. You're gonna listen. no one's cutting each other off and you know yeah. |
| 1:43.0 | I was at you guys chocolate. |
| 1:44.3 | You're gonna listen to me with a mouthful of goodness. |
| 1:48.6 | My name's Tanner Gardner just finished |
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