It's Okay Not To Know

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about how it's okay to not know what's going to happen in life.

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.
0:26.2	If you feel lost, if you feel like you're in a strange place, if you feel like you're in a strange place, if you feel like you've tossed your map and you've ripped it up and now you're standing there looking around with pieces of the past
0:36.4	clenched in your fist confused not know which way to go.
0:48.4	For those of you who keep comparing your story to others or the one that you had for yourself before he left or she left or whatever happened.
0:55.0	For those of you who are afraid, confused, and pain,
0:59.0	unsure, and question your story daily,
1:02.0	I want you to know nobody knows and the people who
1:06.9	think they know are usually pretending or on the high of writing a wave of
1:12.1	good fortune which will eventually crash as well
1:15.5	like all waves do and they will not know or pretend they do
1:21.6	Maybe there's nothing to figure out. This is life as is. It ebbs and flows comes and goes because
1:29.1	we resist when we don't know, right? And behind this resistance is complete blockage and a very short mudslide that drops into quicksand. The truth is nobody knows, quote unquote good is not a quote-unquote good is not a constant and there's no need to panic if we
1:47.2	say that we're not. Life is not about being okay, it's about being honest with self and leaning into what is in front of you with complete openness.
2:00.0	It's okay to not know. What's not okay is to pretend.
2:06.4	So I wrote this years back and I wrote it because I used to panic because I didn't know because I didn't have answers.
2:19.0	And I thought since I didn't have answers my life was shit you know and I put a lot of weight on
2:29.2	knowing and having answers and not knowing and not having answers gave me daily anxiety.
2:38.8	And so as a practice, and I still struggle with it today,
2:41.8	but it's a practice allowing yourself to be okay with not knowing and this doesn't mean to not actively look for answers, right? I mean, I think it is our job to explore,
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