Empathy Blocks and Butler Narcissism
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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July 23, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So, Bob, I was ready to wrap up today, having recorded one episode, but you pulled the microphone back and said, no, God damn it. |
| 0:09.4 | No, it's to the grindstone there, Kirk. |
| 0:11.1 | I want to record more episodes. |
| 0:14.1 | And so, let's go. |
| 0:17.1 | Patron Pye, she says, I'm studying to become a psychotherapist and your podcast is a big part of why I chose this path. So thank you. |
| 0:25.6 | I have a question. How do you support clients dealing with problems you can't personally relate to? |
| 0:31.6 | How do you support clients dealing with problems you can't personally relate to? |
| 0:36.6 | I work at a bank and we recently received an email from a very upset customer. |
| 0:41.3 | She shared that he shared, he shared that he had been trying to have children |
| 0:47.3 | for many years without success and described this as his biggest dream and source of trauma. |
| 0:52.3 | Wait, I work at a bank and we recently received an email from a very upset customer. |
| 0:57.7 | He shared that he had been trying to have children for many years without success and |
| 1:00.7 | described this as his biggest dream and source of trauma. |
| 1:04.0 | He had received a marketing message about setting up a sub-account for a child. |
| 1:09.4 | Oh, I see. |
| 1:10.6 | He said that reminders like this make |
| 1:12.8 | impossible for him to escape his depression and anxiety and that he thinks about this life |
| 1:18.5 | failure, his words, every day. I can't stop thinking about it. If he came to me for therapy, |
| 1:24.4 | I'm not sure I'd know how to help him. Even setting aside that I am |
| 1:29.5 | child free by choice, I struggle to understand how one unfulfilled desire can affect someone so deeply. |
| 1:36.1 | Most people wouldn't be so shaken by something like a marketing message. I'd really love to hear |
| 1:42.1 | thoughts, greetings from Poland. Bob, what do you think? |
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