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.

So this is part two of my episode emotional abuse and just as aside I label

episodes part one and part two when I have more to say since my podcast is only about 10 to 15 minutes and I purposely keep it short because who's got the time and I also run out of things to say because I birdwalk a lot.

So I know in order to keep it straight to the point in order to keep it where I feel like okay this is I have

something to say and let's stay on track I gotta keep it 10 or 15 minutes so

part two of emotional abuse is going to be about trauma bonding. Now trauma

bonding is a, it seems to be a really popular word right now,

lots of memes about it and stuff on the internet.

And I know why it's popular, it's really interesting.

I mean, it's very dramatic.

And you wonder when you hear it if you have it, right?

Because everyone has a version of or has

experienced of some kind of form of trauma growing up you know no no child enters

adulthood unscarred and people think trauma is like sexual assault, people think

trauma is you know it's from war and yes of course but trauma is like I have trauma from when I bought a box of

bricks for 600 dollars thinking it was a laptop. It was traumatic for me and it

it was because of the circumstances and how I got the money and I like I was

young I begged my mom for it and I thought this is when laptops

were brand new I think I was in my early 20s and when I when I came back home with a box of bricks I mean what was traumatic is how stupid I felt and the

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