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The Angry Therapist Podcast

The Power of Empathy

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about his dad and the importance of having empathy. 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.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.

0:19.2

I'm not feeling well today. I don't know no reason. I didn't sleep well but that's not it.

0:30.4

It's this thing I have and I don't know if it's nature or nurture meaning I

0:38.2

don't know if it was passed on from my dad but my dad used to maneuver in extremes, you know, he would either act like he won the lottery or that the sky was falling.

0:51.0

He lived in panic and fear or on Cloud Nine. And when he was happy, he was

0:59.7

such a joyful, fun, charismatic, inappropriate in a good way, a silly kind of person.

1:10.6

And then of course when he was sad or down when he was stressed out he took

1:21.0

hostages you know and growing up in that house, I was always worried.

1:27.0

I think I was worried about things I shouldn't have been worried about at a young age because my dad just wasn't aware of how his his trenches him you know

1:38.8

dipping into the lower frequencies and feeling discouraged and whatever he was going through, how much that

1:45.1

bled, rippled into, impacted his children, you know.

1:50.6

But anyway, so I've always thought like in my bipolar, I know my dad was an addict, so, or he was an alcoholic, so I don't know if it had to do with that or I don't know maybe he was

2:06.7

bipolar I don't know anyway I also don't want to throw around labels like bipolar ADHD

2:18.3

narcissism and there's a difference between narcissistic tendencies or a narcissistic personality disorder and I think we live in a world

2:26.8

where we throw around a lot of labels so I don't want to label myself it's okay that I woke up and I'm not feeling well or

2:36.9

mentally not feeling well not feeling to kind of discouraged and blah gloomy

2:42.4

foggy I want to talk today about a superpower we have and I was

2:48.8

thinking about this on my way home from my morning pourover,

2:55.0

pourover, that you could hear me sip and probably cringe every time I do it, I'm sorry.

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