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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Love Is...

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about what love really is and means in our relationships.




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.

Transcript

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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

0:16.2

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

0:22.0

So I'm going to read you something I wrote about love and then I'm going to stop with

0:26.9

little verbal footnotes.

0:29.2

John, just shut up and do it.

0:31.6

Why do you have to keep announcing what you're going to do?

0:33.6

Okay, here we go. Love is a daily choice because I believe that it's not given love doesn't survive based on chemistry and connection.

0:52.0

It actually is a choice and it's a daily choice.

0:56.2

So to wake up every day and with intention to choose to love your partner.

1:06.0

Love is a drug.

1:09.0

I don't know about you, but in my 20s,

1:11.0

I think I was addicted to to love to losing myself and someone else to the

1:19.3

approval of validation affirmation to the skin hunger you know to two people under the

1:29.0

bleachers forgetting about the world and lots of chemicals shooting into your brain.

1:37.0

So yes, love can definitely be a drug.

1:40.0

Love is also treatment because relationships are hard and love can be the anchor that gets you to look into the mirror.

1:52.0

So love can be a treatment.

1:54.0

Love is consuming, love is confusing, love is conflicting, love is a gift.

2:00.0

I think that if we remind ourselves that nothing is promised and every day that we get

2:11.8

to love someone and every day that someone loves us back that that is a gift.

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