How Relationships Are Like Recovery

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about how being in relationships are similar to being in recovery.

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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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago
0:05.6	and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.
0:10.4	I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.4	because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:21.1	Today's episode is brought to you by the Morning Commute that is not a product or a company.
0:27.7	I am on it.
0:30.2	I'm on my Morning Commute. actually not going to work but going to a coffee shop.
0:38.0	Every time I work on a book or if I need to get writing done I thread coffee shops into my life and so I'm headed there now and
0:48.6	anyway last night I was listening to a podcast and Dr Drew, one of my heroes, was talking about love and he compared love or he compared long-term relationships to recovery in addiction and I thought that was really interesting because I've never heard that before and the reason is like recovery, long-term relationships is one day at a time,
1:18.0	which I totally agree with.
1:20.0	This is now me talking, not him. This is me running with the ball.
1:29.0	It's also long-term relationships.
1:36.6	You can snap back right the wheels can fall off like addiction there are things that are right like no matter how hard you've worked on yourself and the relationship,
1:47.0	the unhealthy patterns, right?
1:50.0	Your knee jerk, the go-t to's your defaults because of your wiring story etc your fears all of that
1:58.4	they're always just like right behind they're always like the it's sitting on on your shoulder, you know, and it's like, it's the same with a recovery. I mean, you could be
2:08.0	sober for like 30 years and it just, you know know if things are going bad or you're in a place where
2:18.8	you just feel weak then addiction is right there in your shoulder to meet you.
2:24.0	And I think with long-term relationships,
2:28.0	you could build something for 30 years,
2:31.0	whether it's a marriage or any relationship, and it's easy to snap back.
2:38.9	And I got to say, actually sometimes the long-term relationships are harder because it's been so long that if you're not actively working on yourself slash the relationship and I know you hear this all the time and you might be rolling your eyes
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