Why You Feel Empty Even When You’re Doing Everything Right
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When was the last time you had space to feel? |
| 0:04.0 | With the National Trust, you might just find life standing still under towering trees. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe you'll find connection among the stories of the past, |
| 0:15.0 | or a moment to disconnect from it all on a mountainside. |
| 0:20.0 | Whatever you're feeling, wherever you are, with the National Trust, you can make space to feel. |
| 0:29.6 | And you know, when you think about your relationship with your exes, right? |
| 0:33.6 | It's the remembering self that is playing that story. |
| 0:36.6 | And a lot of times, remembering self plays back the highlight reel. |
| 0:41.6 | The remembering self with me when I think about the 80s is playing back the highlight |
| 0:44.7 | reel for sure. |
| 0:46.1 | Here's the key point or the key part. |
| 0:48.6 | Your remembering self makes most of your decisions. |
| 0:52.0 | And this is what I want to drive home today. It isn't the actual truth |
| 0:57.0 | of what happened. It's you telling yourself a story about what happened. And based on that, |
| 1:05.0 | you make your decisions. I'm John Kim, a licensed therapist who used to be a miserable f*** before going on a hero's journey and turning expired relationships into revelations. |
| 1:17.9 | I use my story to help others come with you instead of at you, unrehearsed on purpose, because self-help doesn't have to be polished or complicated. |
| 1:28.5 | Just honest. |
| 1:40.8 | I want to talk to you about something that quietly shapes almost every decision that you make. |
| 1:46.1 | I know it sounds dramatic and extreme, but I'm telling you, and this is so fascinating, |
| 1:51.8 | and you're making decisions without you actually realizing it. And it comes from psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, Daniel Kahneman. And here's the idea. It's the idea that you're not |
| 1:59.2 | just one self. There are two of you. |
| 2:02.1 | And I'm not talking about parts work. |
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