Stop Living In Time Machines

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

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	This is one of the greatest patterns I think that graze us out. That turns us into
0:29.6	Michael J. Fox in that photograph when he couldn't get his parents back together.
0:36.0	We spend our days dwelling on the past or obsessing about the future.
0:41.0	We get up in the morning, thinking about all the mistakes we made on the drive to work
0:45.2	we analyze our past relationships failures when those expensive shoes are going to go on sale
0:55.2	the potential raise, our credit card bill,
0:58.8	the party this weekend, the date last night.
1:05.9	They didn't work all the two dues, right? rehearsing presentations in our heads wondering why we're gaining weight losing our hair why he didn't call why she didn't text reminding ourselves
1:12.2	to stop being a pushover, debating what we want for lunch,
1:18.0	how to change our parents, talk to our boss, address our lover, and suddenly the day is over now we're in bed replaying the day the
1:27.4	past the future stewing in all our what-ifs this has causes insomnia, which means we wake up grouchy as we start up our
1:36.6	mental machine all over again.
1:40.2	This becomes a pattern that waters us down into a zombie-like pill-popping creature who drags through life
1:48.6	clenching lottery tickets and a grudge.
1:52.2	If we want to change the future we must focus on the now. That's where
1:57.2	our power is. We have no power anywhere else. So I can relate to this. I mean of course I can. I wrote it because most of my life has
2:08.5	been in time machines. Most of my life has been either future tripping and I think I've done
2:17.3	more future tripping than dwelling on the past I know many people dwell on the past especially when it comes to old relationships
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