My First True Medicine (MDMA) Journey

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, John opens up about his healing journey through an MDMA-assisted medicine ceremony. He shares raw reflections on shedding past identities, facing repressed emotions, and the intentional path to self-discovery. He also explores the role of solitude, presence, and emotional honesty—not just in healing, but in creating more authentic relationships. This is a vulnerable, eye-opening episode about what it means to truly come home to yourself. This is an invitation to a private, intimate weekend retreat. A small group medicine journey. No big productions, no ego. Just realignment. Self-love. Shedding what no longer fits. You don’t need to hit rock bottom to evolve. May 23 weekend in Idywilld California. Seats are very limited. Find out more HERE or email John at theangrytherapist@gmail.com Find out more about Sarah Williams and her work HERE Follow Sarah on Instagram HERE Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose, HERE Jump into John’s new Single. On Purpose app HERE Follow John on Instagram HERE Find out more about John HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	Hi, my name is John Kim.
0:33.2	I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago, and I've been documenting
0:37.2	my journey
0:37.7	ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations I believe in casual or clinical with you
0:43.4	instead of at you I come unrehearsed on purpose because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:51.2	I'm doing my first medicine journey on a random Thursday.
0:57.9	We are in the mountains elevation like 6,000 feet in a little home in Idaho, California.
1:08.1	And my intention is to ask myself and wherever this journey takes me what I need to shed possibly
1:22.0	to be a higher version of myself what's the evolution of me? I just turned 52. Our house burned down three
1:32.8	months ago. We're kind of starting over. You know, I've been through a rebirth before and this time
1:40.6	around. It's very different. So I'm curious about what's on the other side of,
1:47.0	what's on the other side of this as we find a new home. And also, I have questions about
1:54.0	possibly new, I don't know to words, patterns, but when it comes to food, exercise, sex intimacy,
2:07.4	I think I'm tracing old blueprints. I don't know. Or maybe I'm not. Maybe those urges are my
2:16.6	truth. But I'm curious what is next for me in those areas.
2:22.0	I'm curious to see if I've been using food, exercise, sex as a way to numb or for the high instead of it being life force and healthy.
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