How To Build A Life Container
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John talks about how to redesign your life from the inside out by building yourself a life container.
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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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| 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. |
| 0:19.0 | I do all my podcast in my garage with my door wide open and today it looks like it's |
| 0:27.9 | going to rain consider it instrumental background music today the DJ is going to be God. I'm going to talk |
| 0:36.0 | about what I've been talking about for about 13 years now and it's this concept of building yourself a brand new life |
| 0:45.0 | container and this came from three things one me going through a divorce |
| 0:49.7 | to working in nonprofit helping teenage addicts recover from drugs and alcohol, and then three |
| 0:58.9 | from therapy school. |
| 1:01.1 | As someone who has a d d d and someone who's SAT scores were so bad so low that |
| 1:10.4 | the vice principal called me down to ask me if everything was okay at home |
| 1:13.6 | which by the way I don't know if he would have done if I was an Asian but it you know |
| 1:20.3 | school and academia all of that is really hard for me so in order for me to be a therapist I knew I had to take these high |
| 1:27.4 | Dance concepts and bring it to street level and so what I did was |
| 1:40.0 | I digested all three of those things and created this concept which became my first book. So here's the idea. We all have a life space called a container and in our container we have cracks. |
| 1:47.2 | We could have big cracks so if you're in a abusive relationship, whether it's physical or emotional abuse, that's a giant crack in your life |
| 1:55.3 | container. A crack in the container stunt your growth. So if you're in an abusive relationship, |
| 2:00.6 | not only is your own growth stunted but so is your partner's growth right |
| 2:04.4 | but then there's also like hairline cracks right maybe you have lopsided |
| 2:09.8 | friendships maybe you're in a shitty job that drains you, you're going to determine the size of those |
| 2:17.4 | cracks. The good news is we can build ourselves a brand new life container. And so today I'm going to go through |
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