Navigating Toxic Relationships

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about toxic relationships: what are signs of a toxic relationship? How do you leave a toxic relationship? Why do you keep finding yourself in toxic relationships? How to heal from toxic relationships? And more.

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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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
0:16.2	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:28.4	Relationships can be a lot like sailing on a storm you see. Sometimes you navigate smoothly and you feel safe and you see clearly into the future and you're able to be very present.
0:36.4	Enjoy the wind on your face, the sun on your back, and in other times you're caught in a
0:46.8	crazy storm that threatens to sink the ship. And we've all found ourselves in unhealthy relationships, sometimes more than once.
0:52.1	So here's some steps on how to identify and deal with
0:56.7	some of those toxic relationships, whether you found yourself in your first one
1:01.0	or if you've continued to find yourself in the same type of
1:05.6	relationships more than once it's finally time to stop and break these patterns.
1:14.0	All right, number one, the Lighthouse of Self Awareness.
1:20.0	Yes, everything is Ocean and Sea related.
1:27.0	Cute, John.
1:28.0	All right, the first step is to recognize,
1:37.3	the first step in recognizing a toxic relationship is to look in the mirror. And so what I mean by that is we're so fast to point fingers, blame the other person.
1:45.5	And of course it's important to know and observe
1:49.1	how someone is treating you, right?
1:50.4	I don't want to minimize what the other person is doing but it's just as
1:56.8	important if not more to lick itself. What are you bringing to this what is your contribution so it's not just your behavior
2:08.3	it's your wiring it's your unhealthy patterns it's you know the stuff that happened in childhood that you haven't really
2:16.6	healed from that is manifesting in the way that you show up in the relationship.
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