Hi, my name is John Kim and I'm a therapist who went through his own

rebirth. I share my feelings and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical and

with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose because self-help

doesn't have to be so complicated.

One of the things I love about podcasting is that you can do it from anywhere and I think I

purposely don't have guests so I can do it from anywhere. I'm currently outside the gym about 15 minutes early before class starts and I want to talk about this thing that's been in my head, this idea of streamlining what self-awareness really is. And what I love is, or what I focus on is if I have something that I want to say, it's important to me that it feels

organic and I think when we let time pass and we you know set up the equipment and all the stuff

that we need to do to make a piece of content polished we lose that

potency so I'm telling you this because if I don't sound that crisp, I am recording this on my phone in my car outside a blinking red meter.

And of course the red meter just adds to my sense of adventure or is that

my sense of immaturity I don don't know, irresponsibility.

All right, what I was thinking about this morning

was this idea of being responsible of. of not only your attitude, what you say, what you do, but also your energy. And one of the game changes from me one of the things I realized

made you go from child to adult was this ability because most of my life if you follow me or listen to me I've been a

walking react or read me yeah I've been a walking reaction right 20s 30s

taking people hostage, you know, I think one of the things I didn't realize was when you

are, when you're in a relationship,

you're taking someone

you're taking someone hostage because they don't have anywhere to go.

I mean, they can technically leave the room of course but the

negativity is still there that energy is still there right? They can't leave that. That's their space, you know? And so you gotta be responsible with how you

soil that's space or do everything you can to create soil, do know what I'm saying?

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