My Definition of a Good Life

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about his definitions of what makes a good 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
0:16.2	because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:20.3	So I'm working on my sixth book and I'm at the part where I'm talking about
0:28.6	building a new life. The book is called You Dodge the Bullets. It's a relationship survival guide for anyone going through a breakup.
0:39.0	And one of the steps as you heal from your expired relationship is getting a life, is building a life.
0:50.0	When someone says, I'm going through a breakup what should I do I tell them you need to get a life and they think I'm a dick and I can be
1:07.8	Joking aside I mean it sincerely because when we're in a relationship
1:19.1	sometimes that relationship is our life right so when that relationship is our life, right? So when that relationship expires, we suddenly have a giant crack in our life. We lose our foundation.
1:20.7	So for many, getting a life is part of the healing process and even if you're in a
1:29.2	relationship that's really healthy and you know your relationship isn't your life and you have you
1:35.3	know your own friends and passions and all that the amount of energy and time
1:41.2	the amount of heart intention, you know, the amount of thoughts you have in a day
1:49.7	when you're in a relationship is,'s a lot you know think about like
1:54.8	thinking about think about like when you when you wake up and you think about your partner
1:59.5	you know texting what you're going to do this weekend you're considering your partner
2:06.1	with almost all of your decisions and that's not that's normal it's not it's not I'm
2:11.8	not talking about codependency I'm just talking about the the normal day-to-day and so when you go through an expired relationship and that is now gone
2:21.5	All of that energy all of that energy, all of that time has to be funneled into something productive, right?
2:31.1	So instead of numbing and running, you want to funnel that into, of course, your own relationship with yourself slash building a life.
2:41.0	And so I started thinking about what does a good life look like and I started to think about
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