Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

I believe in casual over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

Hi and welcome to the angry therapist podcast. I'm saying this for anyone

watching on YouTube and yes I have a YouTube channel. Everyone seems to have a

YouTube channel these days. It just podcasts and YouTube seem to be the peanut

butter and chocolate of media these days and so yes I have YouTube channel. So if you want to see my face, which is usually

sweaty, or it's wet either way, so it's either sweat or it's water from a hose because when I sit down and

podcast it's usually the afternoon and I take a hose to my face. I think part of it is just it's nostalgia. It's what we used to do in the 80s and I think I do it because I want to go back to the 80s.

Speaking of the 80s, you know I was talking to my own therapist and I had a session last week and I always think about the 80s as being this magical time because the 80s was my wonder years and the world was big and I was rock and fat laces.

When Adidas were new pretty much and

Windbreakers and windbreakers, breakers, I had a little pompadour

with the aqua net hairspray.

I think that's banned now because it's like superglue.

And I was spinning on my back and I was

losing myself in breakdancing and I and so like these memories of me hitting flow states spinning my back being a part of a breakdancing crew

you know early Madonna and run run d. I don't know I think about those times and they feel so magical but I was

processing with my therapist is actually when I really reflect. I was actually a lonely kid. I was a 12 year old

loner who I think found activities like breakdancing and BMX bikes, transformers, Lego, Transformers Legos to numb my loneliness and it may be said it was the first time that I thought

about the 80s in a way where they weren't happy times but

there were very lonely times. Anyway I'm not trying to bring you down but you know I guess the revelation is sometimes we

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