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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Episode 98: You Don't Own Your Relationship

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

John Kim (The Angry Therapist) is doing things differently. Therapy in a shotglass. Ten minutes, no filler. Music in this episode is by Keshco, used under a creative commons license. The Angry Therapist Podcast is Produced and Audio Engineered by Amanda Meyncke.  Want a free relationship toolkit to improve your relationships and yourself? Sign up here theangrytherapist.com/podcast. Want to become a life coach? Check it out here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, my name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist and life coach putting

0:07.2

self betterment into a shot class because let's face it who's got that much time

0:11.4

these days. I come unpolished, unrehearsed, on purpose.

0:16.2

If you're looking for more of a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place.

0:21.6

I just wrote an Instagram post titled You Don't Own Your Relationship and I wanted to expand on that because I think it's important and it's a common theme that I find when I'm coaching people with their relationships.

0:34.0

Also, it's 6 a.m. and this is my morning voice, as you can hear, very groggy.

0:41.0

So, and there's also a garbage truck outside making tons of noise so I'm trying

0:51.1

to accept not trying to control the universe and these are the things that are happening and this is the situation

0:59.1

Let's roll with it

1:01.8

Okay, so I have a tattoo on my right forearm that says resist nothing and I tried to live by

1:09.9

it's extremely difficult. It's a giant tattoo and I remember that when I first got it you know tattoos are

1:16.3

really shiny I went straight from a the tattoo parlor to a party and it was one of my first tattoos and I didn't really think about it

1:27.0

you know how it would show up and it was so shiny and so just like alarming, right?

1:36.0

Resist nothing on your forearm bright and like it's wet.

1:40.0

Wetting.

1:47.4

I remember people were like stunned all my friends and they were like oh you got a tattoo it's like you know when you get a really bad haircut and people

1:51.7

are like you got a haircut but they just

1:54.4

announce that you got a haircut but they don't tell you anything else about it I got a

1:58.1

lot of that at that party and I remember coming home thinking what the fuck did I do? And I remember regretting it. But over the years,

2:07.7

it has faded and the Fontas American typewriter matches, you know, me and my writing so

2:15.4

Now I've actually come full circle. I love it and

2:20.1

I also now get a lot of compliments on it and anyway

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