Why The Barista Activated Me, Defensiveness, and How To Deal With Situationsh*ts
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:29.3 | Hi my name is John Kim, I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago |
| 0:35.6 | and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations. I believe |
| 0:41.1 | in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:46.7 | because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:51.2 | So I was at the coffee shop this morning and I got really activated by this guy and on the way |
| 1:00.2 | home I was trying to figure out why and I think I figured it out and I wanted to share this story because I think it may be helpful. |
| 1:06.0 | All right, so people who are dicks don't really activate me. |
| 1:12.0 | Angry men do activate me because I used to be very angry. |
| 1:16.0 | You know a lot of times we are activated by people who remind us of ourselves or parts of ourselves that we have created distance |
| 1:26.0 | from or maybe healed from. |
| 1:29.2 | You know, it's usually the old you that if you see in someone else that you know you get activated right and so angry men definitely activate me I don't feel like I have a |
| 1:40.1 | lot of time for rage and angry men at the same time I feel like those are the |
| 1:50.5 | people that I should have the most empathy for because I used to be just like them right anyway |
| 1:56.7 | this coffee shop guy wasn't angry he was actually the opposite |
| 2:00.5 | uh... he was extremely nice and I think there's a difference between kind and nice. I like kind. |
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