Reach Without Losing Footing
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John talks about how to reach for something you want in life (goals, dreams, etc.) without losing your footing (sense of self, living in the present, etc.).
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 over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.4 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:21.4 | You know what I've been obsessed with lately besides hot water with lemon and honey. |
| 0:30.2 | By the way this is what you should sip first thing in the morning, not a cup of black tar coffee, which I've been doing for 30 years. |
| 0:40.0 | And it's very strange but at 49 I'm kind of sick of coffee. I don't even I don't |
| 0:47.3 | know who I am anymore. I do enjoy like really nice expensive pourover coffee at the coffee shop once in a while but I you |
| 0:57.6 | know I used to drink it every day and I think my taste buds are changing I still do |
| 1:01.6 | have it every day I used to drink four cups a day and cappuccinos and it's always been kind of my pacifier. I think just because I'm a writer and I, you know, I've lived most of my life in coffee shops but I just I'm I don't like it anymore I don't |
| 1:16.7 | like the way it makes me feel it makes me jittery it's kind of bitter anyway you know what I've been obsessed with? It's not hot water. It's, uh, and this is going to sound a little abstract. |
| 1:31.1 | It's, how do you reach for something and keep both feet on the ground. |
| 1:40.0 | And so let me explain. |
| 1:42.0 | Most of in my life I've lived with an extended arm, meaning |
| 1:48.6 | reaching for something, you know, the deal, the girl chasing after something, wanting something, |
| 1:58.0 | reaching for it. And what happens is one, if not both of my feet leave the ground, meaning there's a, |
| 2:12.0 | and I think reaching for things is great. I mean that's what life is about right |
| 2:15.8 | Going after what you want |
| 2:18.8 | Experimenting giving yourself new experiences all that, but I think when you reach for something and you get |
| 2:25.9 | unbalanced, I think if you reach for something and both of your feet come off the ground, you become wobbly. |
| 2:34.7 | And here's my other finding in this life |
| 2:40.3 | is that, that's a helicopter by the way if you could hear that going |
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