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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Liberated Love with Mark Groves

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John brings on Mark Groves to discuss his book 'Liberated Love' and the journey of relationships. Mark shares his personal experience of going through Relationship 1.0 and 2.0 with his partner. They discuss codependency, the importance of self-erasure in relationships, the role of the nervous system in relationships, and the signs of losing oneself in a relationship. They also touch on the considerations in deciding whether to stay or go in a relationship, the hierarchy of ideal relationship structures, the importance of being well-resourced in relationships, the significance of freedom in relationships, and much more. Mark Groves is a Human Connection Specialist, founder of Create the Love, host of the Mark Groves Podcast and co-author of Liberated Love. Mark's work bridges the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, the bad, the downright ugly, and the beautiful sides of connection. Preorder Liberated Love here! Mark's Website: createthelove.com + markgroves.com Mark's Podcast: markgrovespodcast.com Mark's Instagram: @createthelove

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

0:16.4

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:21.4

Mark, you know, I was just I I don't know why I was going to call you Mark Walberg.

0:25.6

I'll take it. Where did that come from?

0:28.4

Take it, I'll take it.

0:29.7

Mark Groves. Maybe good vibrations, you know, you're always giving, and then you probably look really good and tidy whiteies.

0:36.5

I'm from, he is definitely from my 90s childhood, that's for yeah when he was yeah

0:44.6

What was his other song not just good vibrations did he have any other that was it wasn't that was the big one in 90s

0:51.4

When he was a Calvin Klein model that's right.

0:54.3

Mark Groves. Hey, um, you've been very busy and we're going to talk about your giving birth to this. your partner, but I always start with this

1:17.7

partner, but I always start with this question. It's a little, you know, it's a little bit of pushing the guest into the deep end from the back really fast. And the question is is what is your current greatest struggle?

1:26.1

I know you're a dad I know there's a lot going on so what's your current greatest struggle?

1:31.1

Yeah you know what I would say it's that.

1:34.0

The integrating from a two to a three, you know, moving from being a couple to being a family

1:41.3

has been, you know, one of those struggles that you're like, this is bringing forward

1:46.3

all the things that are unresolved, this is, uh, show, you know, before we had a kid I was like,

1:52.4

damn, I'm a pretty good communicator.

1:55.0

And then once we had a kid, I was like, I'm not as exceptional of a communicator as I thought I was.

2:00.0

So, you know, I think that's probably, it's probably the hardest work right now.

2:06.0

How old?

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