The Power of Having Empathy

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about the power of having empathy for others, including those who have hurt you. He also shares a story about a past relationship, and talks about why he feels empathetic for his exes.

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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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Transcript

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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.
0:18.8	I'm not feeling well today. I don't know no reason I didn't sleep well but that's not
0:32.1	it it's it's but that's not it.
0:33.0	It's this thing I have and I don't know if it's nature or nurture, meaning I don't know if it was passed on from my dad but my dad used to maneuver in extremes you know he would either
0:48.6	act like he won the lottery or that the sky was falling. He lived in panic and fear or on Cloud 9. And when he was
0:59.8	happy he was he was such a joyful, fun, charismatic, inappropriate in a good way, a silly kind of person. And then of course
1:13.0	course when he was
1:15.0	sad or down when he was
1:18.0	sad or down when he was stressed out
1:22.0	he took hostages you know and growing up in that house I was
1:27.9	always worried I think I you know was worried about things I shouldn't have
1:31.3	been worried about at a young
1:32.7	age because my dad just wasn't aware of how his his trenches him you know dipping
1:41.2	into the lower frequencies and feeling discouraged, whatever he was going through,
1:46.4	how much that bled, rippled into, impacted his children, you know? But anyway, so I've always thought like in my
1:56.6	bipolar, I know my dad was an addict so, or he's not alcoholic, so I don't know if it had to do with that or I don't know maybe he was
2:08.6	bipolar I don't know anyway I also don't want to throw around labels like bipolar, ADHD, narcissism, and there's a difference
2:22.0	between narcissistic tendencies or a narcissistic personality disorder
2:27.0	and I think we live in a world where we throw around a lot of labels so I don't want to label myself.
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