Hi, my name is John Kim and I'm a therapist who went through his own

rebirth. I share my feelings and revelations. I believe in casual or

clinical and with you instead of at you I come unrehearsed on

purpose because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. The topic in our

text community this week is emotional abuse, so I thought I'd do an episode about it and it's a big topic.

I'll probably do multiple episodes, but I wanted to kind of take a stab, throw some kind of net,

just to get the dialogue going.

Oh, by the way, if you do not live in U.S. or Canada, and you want to get my text, since I only text in U.S. and Canada right now and not international,

I set up a way that you can get them email to you as well as the

six to ten page Google Doc every Friday. All you have to do is just go to my

Instagram at the angry therapist and click on my bio link and swipe over one or two

cards and you'll see it there.

It's super easy.

I know it sounds like it sounds like a like a you get a like you're finding a

buried treasure with all these directions on how to get to things on different social media platforms. That's the world we live in today, you guys.

Okay, so there's two things I want to talk about regarding emotional abuse and other episodes. I'm going to probably go deeper into it but I just feel like these are

They're important and they're it's like the foot I want to start with first.

Does that make sense?

Because it's what comes up a lot when I'm working with clients.

Okay, the first thing about emotional abuse

is a lot of us getting into emotionally abusive relationships.

It's not... I mean, yes, it is our choosing but I want to remind you that there are things happening that are

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