Seek The Barriers That Prevent Love

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about the different types of barriers you should look for that prevents love.

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.
0:21.1	So I'm working on my first workbook for single on purpose and I've been doing some
0:28.0	research and I came across a quote today that knocked me sideways. It's by Rummy and the quote is this,
0:37.3	your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
0:48.7	I'm gonna read that again because most likely you're driving or doing something and this is playing in the background and you kind of caught a few words and you're like oh wait what was that? Oh that kind of sounded good. Okay, listen.
1:02.7	Your task is not to seek for love,
1:06.0	but merely to seek and find all the barriers
1:08.9	within yourself that you have built against it.
1:13.0	Holy shit.
1:15.0	We live in a world where we have been programmed by,
1:20.0	you know, Disney movies and advertising and just everything that love is where happy lives and I mean speaking about single on purpose the whole reason I wrote that book
1:38.0	was I don't believe that Barbie needed Ken all she needed was that fucking vet. We gave her Ken because we wanted to paint a picture that that's what happy looks like being in a relationship right and I'm not saying I'm not anti-relationship
1:56.4	that book is not an anti-relationship book I'm in a relationship I love relationships I'm a hopeless romantic I don't well actually let me pause there I don't
2:06.7	know if that makes sense anymore this idea of a hopeless romantic because I definitely
2:12.0	was before but now I don't know if
2:15.0	I don't know if hopeless and romantic I don't know if it just doesn't sit well with me in the same
2:21.0	sentence and I just had that thought as I said the words out loud.
2:27.6	I'm going to revisit that. I'm going to bookmark that and think about that and revisit it.
2:31.6	I don't know if it's a term that I want to identify myself. about that
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