This is the angry therapist podcast. My name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist

slash live coach and I'm putting self betterment into a shot glass, 10 minutes unpolished.

In today's shot glass dissolving your fear of love. If you've been following or listening to my

podcast episode 7 was the beginning of a series and it was you know titled

Dissolving Fears or Fear is the Shadow Cast by our own hand and it's time to turn the fucking light on and so the first fear I talked about was dissolving the fear of failure reframing that and then I said I'm going to do a series and the next

one was going to be fear of love and how do we tackle that but then episode 8

was about living inside out and if you've been following these you might

be a little confused but here's the thing guys that's very John Kim. Unrehearsed. I'm the kind of guy that just splatters paint and I

forget things. I am known to be the Korean blonde. If you're blonde I don't mean that offensively. Yeah, so that's just how I

roll and sorry not sorry and so here we are episode 9 me realigning and reminding myself that I get back to the

series about dissolving your fears and so I want to talk about your fear

fear of loving real quick some of the influencers in my life it's funny

of the influencers in my life it's funny because as a therapist people ask me, you know, who were you influenced by and they think I'm going to say Freud and

and and I don't know all the

Carl Young and and Bowen and Virginia Satir and all the classics instead you know the people who influenced me as a therapist because I consider myself an artist generally and then therapy is one of the things that I do.

I say like Bukowski, Bruce Lee, Quentin Tarantino.

And I respect those people and those people

have influenced me because they've put things out that was just uniquely them, meaning they pulled from their

solid self, they created their own theories, they broke a lot of rules and so I don't know if that's me trying to

Take all my my ditziness and my forgetfulness and my you know the whole thing with

the squirrel and losing attention and having a short attention span.

I don't know if I'm trying to cover that up by saying that I'm inspired by people like

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