Turning Your Life Equalizer By Putting Weight On Different Things

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode, John talks about a journaling exercise he's been doing with his private TAT Circle community: for four days, journal about the worst thing that has ever happened to you. He talks about the revelations he and his members had during this challenge, how much time and energy we spend focusing on the future, how most people find issues in similar areas in their life, and how beneficial re-shifting your energy can be. You can sign up, or find out more about John' TAT Circle community here: https://theangrytherapist.circle.so/home 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. Meet him at -> https://www.theangrytherapist.com Join his private communities -> https://theangrytherapist.circle.so/home Get his daily texts here -> https://www.theangrytherapist.com/text 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
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	So we did this exercise in my live Zoom group in my circle. It's a private
0:28.4	community. They have a very intimate one where you have to journal for 10 minutes about the worst thing that's happened to you.
0:39.8	And I thought this was really interesting.
0:41.8	I actually heard about it from
0:44.2	Huberman lab and supposedly if you and there's a proven data on this if you write about the worst thing that's happened to you, I know it sounds
0:57.2	horrible or you know the most challenging thing that's happened to you, four consecutive
1:02.0	days in a row, it's actually really supposed to be beneficial.
1:06.2	It's supposed to help you emotionally, it's supposed to help you physically.
1:11.6	I would assume that what happens is as you write about it over and over again for
1:19.4	four days, each day you are turning over a new rock you are investigating different sides of
1:29.2	what happened and I think by doing so the monster or the stain in your story becomes lifted.
1:36.7	You know, I think you shed light, I think you naturally will kind of process and maybe you'll be able to see what happened through
1:49.6	new lenses slightly or a different angle.
1:53.0	And I think that's what can be very helpful.
1:55.3	I mean, the exercise itself sounds horrible,
1:59.1	or sounds scary, you know.
2:00.9	Most of us, we've heard about the exercises where you're writing about great
2:05.2	things that have happened to you but to visit the bad times that that can be a bit
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