The Struggle and Strength of Single Parents

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about parenting, but focuses on single parents. He talks about how much stress single parents undergo, the struggles they endure raising children without a support system, how hard dating can be for single parents, and more.

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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.
0:22.0	So this is going to be my just turn the mic on and go in episode inspired by a movie I just saw recently pump up the volume by Christians Later in the 90s.
0:37.0	Actually, I think late 80s and I've posted, I've taken the poster of that movie and put my face over his as kind of a joke and I've referenced that movie because I really loved this I related I related to the spirit of this guy in his
1:01.5	basement this guy in his basement who at school is shy and awkward but in his basement he finds his cape.
1:12.2	In his basement he is a self cape. In his basement he is self-expressive and unrehearsed and he is allowed to be in his solid self.
1:24.8	And I think I related to that because,
1:28.0	and not so much because of what I do today,
1:30.8	because how I was when I was blogging on Tumblr in 2010 and I remember having a
1:38.4	shitty job so for him it was school that he hated in that system. For me it was the clinical system, realizing
1:47.4	how broken it was, and having a shitty job, punching a clock, hated that part of my life, but I had to go to work, like he had to go to school, and then I would come home and it was in my bedroom at the time where I was blogging and making you know silly videos
2:10.0	doing thrusters in the, no not on my bed, in the, well maybe if I got lucky in my bed, but doing
2:19.3	thrusters in the downstairs underground parking garage because I had some weight and it's kind of all I had.
2:28.0	And I just love the spirit of that of that movie. Does it hold up today? I don't know. It was fun. It was fun to watch an old Christian Slater movie.
2:43.0	I remember I thought he was so cool.
2:45.0	I thought it was so cool back in the 90s.
2:48.0	Anyway, so in the spirit of that, this episode is going to be like that where I'm just there's no
2:57.3	outline today I'm just talking I'm doing a check-in I am quote-on-quote pumping up the volume. I think his name was Hard Harry.
3:07.6	Harry Hard-on which also kind of lines up with with me and my story
3:14.9	Many man I'm sure but yes, okay a little little little uh
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