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The Angry Therapist Podcast

How To Apologize For Reals

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about apologizing: what it is, why it's important, and how to properly take ownership and apologize for your mistakes.   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.   Meet him at -> https://www.theangrytherapist.com Join his private communities -> https://theangrytherapist.circle.so/home Get his daily texts here -> https://www.theangrytherapist.com/text Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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 over 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.

0:22.3

So many people don't tell me that they would apologize to

0:25.0

and I was one of them.

0:27.0

So many my clients would tell me that they would apologize to their partner

0:31.0

and as I dig deeper I would realize that they actually didn't

0:35.6

apologize at all right so this is because we were never taught how to

0:40.6

apologize right we grow up and we watch our parents who also probably didn't

0:45.5

know how to apologize or most of our parents and as we grow our egos grow and instead of a heartfelt apology we are being very defensive and

0:57.5

all of that so here's the consequence so if you don't apologize in a effective manner what happens is the there's little

1:08.4

hairline cracks in your relationship container so people start holding resentment, they're not able to fully forgive or let go.

1:20.2

So before your relationship container crumbles from all these airline cracks,

1:27.0

it's really important to know how to apologize.

1:29.0

Okay, so how do you apologize?

1:32.0

Many people think they're apologizing when you're actually giving an explanation, right?

1:37.5

And there's a huge difference. One's from the heart and the other is from logic and ego.

1:42.0

So if the words I am sorry never come out of your

1:45.7

mouth and I know this sounds really basic and and but you wouldn't believe how

1:50.4

many people don't say they're sorry.

1:52.8

So if the words I am sorry never come out of your mouth,

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