The Mother & Son Dynamic

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John and Vanessa host a workshop for their book, It's Not Me, It's You, and dive into the mother and son dynamic in relationships. They also talk about how to have healthy relationships, what codependency looks like in relationships, and give advice to listener's who called in with their questions over Zoom.

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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
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.
0:21.2	We're going to start today with how to make a relationship sustainable and this is part
0:26.9	three of our book.
0:29.4	This is the hardest part you know for me it's not about the attraction the collision you know of
0:37.6	course there's that honeymoon in the beginning and then people getting to
0:40.7	know each other it's still all exciting, right?
0:43.3	It's when all of that kind of fades and you look at each other and you're like,
0:47.5	all right, now how do we actually keep this plane in the air?
0:50.6	You know, how do we make this sustainable? And I think this is where many people drop the ball. I think this is where things get really hard.
0:58.0	Yeah, I agree. I mean, I don't dismiss the hard that comes before this part,
1:03.7	but I think the hard of keeping things going
1:08.7	is a different kind of hard.
1:10.2	I think that's the best way to describe it.
1:11.5	It's a different kind of hard, right? I know you now, I know your triggers, I know my triggers, I know how we activate each other, we're working on it actively, and now comes the, what does that look like day to day
1:26.5	sold that through us part if that's where you're at right?
1:29.6	And that's fucking hard.
1:31.6	Yeah.
1:33.2	Reading from this, okay, so you have collided with each other
1:36.6	and examined the chemistry to see if it's coming from a healthy place.
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