The Angry Therapist Podcast

Starting Over at 52: The Day I Chose New Lenses


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At 52, John realizes how often we trade our truth for “membership” - relationships, status, the idea of success - and quietly disappear. From a house fire to shaving his head, he reframes love, loss, and identity, arguing that real growth demands new lenses, not old fantasies.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Why exchanging your truth for acceptance makes you lukewarm
  • “Corrective love” vs replaying the past’s highlight reel
  • How healthy love both confronts and delights
  • Impermanence as a doorway to gratitude (everything can vanish)
  • Reinvention at any age: new lenses → new life
  • Join John in Costa Rica, Dec 1–5. A retreat for connection, creativity, and fresh starts with an optional two-day medicine journey. Sign upHERE

    📘 Read John’s new book in progress Sh*t Your Therapist Would Never Tell You on John’s SubStackHERE

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