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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Why It's Important To Change Our Definition Of Love

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about why it's important to have new love experiences, and change our definition of love.




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 rebirth many years ago

0:05.6

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

0:10.3

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.

0:20.3

Your definition of love, why is it important to explore your definition of love?

0:26.0

Here's the thing, we trace blueprints. So we have these ideas and these definitions that stem from our story and if reality doesn't match those

0:37.2

definitions there's instant anxiety right and there's no difference when it comes to love So it's really important to be aware of your

0:45.3

definition and also how you form them. So let's talk about this. How did you form

0:52.0

your definition of love?

0:54.0

Okay, I also, I'm going to share my story because that's just kind of what I do.

1:00.0

I think our stories are powerful and I always bring it back to me using my

1:05.8

story as an example so for me or well for anyone it starts with our parents right so in my case I had

1:16.5

Parents who showed zero affection my mom and dad are very traditional Korean old school and the definition I got was mom and dad works all the time.

1:32.0

They don't touch each other. they don't show any kind of

1:35.0

emotional affection my dad would uh any time my dad showed any kind of

1:39.2

affection it was to get a laugh so he would be joking around or you know trying to try to like kiss her

1:45.0

it never came from an authentic genuine place it came from a showy performance

1:50.2

place in front of the kids to make us laugh and of course anytime my dad tried to make an

1:55.1

advance on my mom she would always push him away and that was the

2:01.8

blueprint that I absorbed.

2:04.4

And you know, when we're growing up, whether it's words, behavior,

2:08.9

or energy as children, we absorb, right?

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