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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Your Most Important Promise

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about how to raise your self esteem/ confidence, and why raising it should be a daily promise to yourself. 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 -> 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 rebirth many years ago,

0:05.8

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

0:10.6

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.

0:22.0

One of the most common questions I get is how do you get more self-esteem?

0:27.9

And I don't think that self-esteem is something that you get.

0:32.3

It's not something you pick up during a weekend after walking on fire.

0:37.2

Nothing against Tony Robbins. I've never been to his

0:40.6

seminars. But I'm just using that as a reference. And I'm using that because I think many people think

0:47.4

that if they go to some kind of workshop or retreat or, you know something I'm maybe it's

0:54.8

Ottawaka ayahuasca Ottawaka whatever it's called which I'm actually really

1:00.3

interested in and I've been invited three times and I think my fear of pooping

1:06.3

on myself and throwing up is what's preventing me but anyway it's preventing me

1:10.5

from enlightenment it's not something that But anyway, it's preventing me from enlightenment.

1:11.6

It's not something that you get.

1:13.6

It's something that's built.

1:15.6

You know, I think self-esteem is built over, well, your entire life, you know.

1:21.6

It's bettering your relationship with self.

1:24.6

And so I think the beginning of this is to, and the image I'm seeing is to stop the leak.

1:33.5

Because I think our, because of our life and, you know, the shit that we've been through, how people

1:38.5

treat us, or maybe I should say how we've allowed people to treat us. Also the way that we treat ourselves. All of that

1:46.2

punctures, holes in our self-esteem balloon. And so to stop the leak, I think the first thing you have to do

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