How Do I Stop Being Toxic?
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John dives into an important listeners' question: I feel like I can never stop my toxic behaviors. How do I change?
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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 |
| 0:16.5 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:20.9 | All right here's your question. |
| 0:23.0 | I feel like I'll never stop my toxic behaviors. |
| 0:27.0 | How do I truly change and not have this feeling anymore? |
| 0:31.0 | Well, before I answer this, I just want to remind you. I know I get a lot of questions from different people, tons from email, |
| 0:41.0 | the end, and of course my podcast, and I'm only one person I don't have time to answer all them. |
| 0:46.8 | I always feel guilty when I don't answer as many questions as I can. |
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| 1:33.0 | Okay, so to get back to your question, |
| 1:36.0 | I feel like I'll never stop my toxic behaviors |
| 1:42.0 | and how do I truly change them. Well first like you know anything in |
| 1:47.8 | self-betterment I think understanding so being aware here's the So being aware, here's the order. Being aware, so being aware of your toxic behaviors. And I got to say, question yourself on if it is toxic, right? I think sometimes we might jump the gun and stamp something as toxic when it may not be, right? |
| 2:10.0 | And also something that may have been toxic for you in the past may not be toxic for you today because you're a different person. |
| 2:17.5 | So be honest with yourself, is this truly toxic? |
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