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🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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In this episode, John encourages and talks about how to take your pleasure seriously.
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. |
0:21.6 | If you've only had gas station sushi, you probably won't crave it much. |
0:25.0 | Fosh, sushi sounds so good right now. |
0:30.0 | If sex has only felt like in that obligation, you won't know what it feels to be naturally high or hit higher notes of love. |
0:38.0 | If you've never hugged canyons on a motorcycle, then you may not know or understand what it means to be one with a machine. |
0:45.8 | If you've never jumped out of a plane, got lost in the city, slept underneath stars, |
0:50.6 | danced until the sun came up. I'm going to add a new one here, shit in the woods. |
0:55.1 | You may feel that life is cold soup. Without pleasure, threaded into your life, work will taste bland. |
1:05.0 | But what if you love your work? |
1:07.0 | Okay, wonderful, but you must also take in play for life to shine. |
1:12.0 | And this play must be taken seriously in order to know how much you've needed it. |
1:17.8 | A lot of times we don't know how much we've needed something because we've never allowed ourselves to have it. |
1:23.6 | Most of us do not love our work. |
1:27.0 | As a matter of fact, most of us dread it. |
1:29.5 | So while we're searching for passion and purpose, |
1:31.6 | stretching our bright spots, maybe the only |
1:34.4 | reminder that there is more to life than living it. Pleasure doesn't just fall |
1:38.9 | on our lap. We must seek it, create it, build it, manifest it, and lean backwards into it |
1:45.0 | with our eyes closed and arms folded |
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