Understanding Your Triggers: The Science That Sets You Free
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services? |
| 0:05.0 | So we started the business two years ago. |
| 0:07.0 | We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs. |
| 0:12.0 | But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy. |
| 0:18.0 | Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash |
| 0:23.6 | HelloVet. |
| 0:25.9 | One of the reasons that I'm here on this earth, I believe, is to help us redefine trauma. |
| 0:31.2 | Because for 150 years of clinical study, we've been looking at which kinds of events count as trauma and which do not. |
| 0:38.5 | And the problem with that is that it doesn't take into account the person living through it. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm John Kim, a licensed therapist who used to be a miserable fuck before going on a hero's journey |
| 0:50.9 | and turning expired relationships into revelations. |
| 0:58.3 | I use my story to help others come with you instead of at you, |
| 1:03.6 | unrehearsed on purpose, because self-help doesn't have to be polished or complicated. |
| 1:05.0 | Just honest. |
| 1:13.6 | So we're going to start with the definition of trauma. Yeah. What is trauma? |
| 1:16.6 | So one of the reasons that I'm here on this earth, I believe, is to help us redefine trauma. |
| 1:22.6 | Because for 150 years of clinical study, we've been looking at which kinds of events count as trauma and which do not. |
| 1:30.5 | And the problem with that is that it doesn't take into account the person living through it. |
| 1:35.2 | And so the definition that I use in my work is really simple. You have trauma anytime you have an unbearable emotional experience that lacks a relational home. |
| 1:47.3 | So unbearable emotional experience that lacks a relational home. |
| 1:51.1 | So using the ice, would that be unbearable? |
| 1:54.2 | Yes. |
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