Healing From Trauma
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John and Dr. MC McDonald do a deep dive on how to heal from trauma and break free from trauma bonds. They talk about what healing looks like, how it doesn't happen overnight, examples of what healing looks like, how to let go of someone you are trauma bonded with, the difference between a "safe" and "unsafe" person, and more.
Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own |
| 0:04.3 | rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life |
| 0:08.9 | lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.2 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:21.0 | Here's the other thing though this and this is going back to the other thing that I wanted to say which is that so we have these file folders and we can do this cognitive work but we also are living inside of barometers |
| 0:31.3 | incredibly sophisticated barometers that are giving us very fine-tuned |
| 0:36.0 | data all the time. |
| 0:38.6 | And so I love that we started with the ice this morning because we experienced exactly that. |
| 0:44.0 | Sarah taught us to tune in to what's going on in the body. |
| 0:48.0 | What is the barometer reading right now? |
| 0:50.0 | And I think sometimes we paint with a really broad brush because we see boredom or excitement. |
| 0:56.0 | And we miss that there's this huge spectrum of experience in between and that when we only have two colors, |
| 1:02.0 | we're going to label anything that's from here on over boredom and anything that's from here on over excitement and so I think if you tune into your body you will notice that there are a lot more, there's much more |
| 1:16.6 | like gradient with that and that each person gives your barometer a slightly different reading. and then it's up to you to |
| 1:23.4 | interpret what that data means. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, do you want to water |
| 1:28.1 | I think you good? Don't, um, don't date boring people. I mean we're not, we're not saying this, well I went to this retreat and it's like okay my |
| 1:36.3 | I have to date boring people it's good for me. No I mean I I think we should find someone |
| 1:41.5 | exciting with good panther and I think the |
| 1:44.4 | sex should be amazing and all of that but that's not the only thing and with that |
| 1:49.2 | should come feeling safety grounded and also there's going to be times when, yeah, it is boring. |
| 1:55.0 | But it's not a constant boring like it's just switched there |
| 2:00.0 | and that's what it is because then that doesn't have legs either, you know what I'm saying? |
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