Hard Things to Bring Up in Therapy | Love, Attachment & When to Let Go

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Some of the most important questions we carry are the ones we’re afraid to say out loud — even in therapy. In this episode, John answers real, vulnerable questions about self-worth, dating, anger, emotional safety, and long-term relationships. These are the thoughts people whisper to themselves at night, hesitate to bring into the room, or feel ashamed for having at all. This conversation isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about slowing down, telling the truth, and understanding what’s really happening beneath the surface. Host Links: Surf, Sex & Pancakes - Join John Kim for a surf retreat in Costa Rica. Sign up HERE 📘 Read John’s new book in progress Sh*t Your Therapist Would Never Tell You on John’s SubStack ⁠HERE⁠ If you’re ready for deeper work, the Secure Self course is available HERE Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose,⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow John on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find out more about John⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:23.6	Twinings.
0:25.6	Alive in every drop.
0:29.6	Things you would never bring up in therapy
0:32.6	you could bring up here.
0:47.8	I feel unlovable being single.
0:50.3	How can I become more comfortable with it?
1:03.0	Yes, and this is the hardest part about being single, right? It is wondering if we are lovable because there's no one in front of us telling us that they love us, adore us, find us desirable, intelligent. There's no one championing our stories or picking us up when we're feeling down.
1:08.0	Well, we can have friends and family and all that, but we don't have someone
1:13.1	intimately doing that for us. And this is why it's so important when you're single
1:18.8	to be able to find that within yourself, which is also, I think, the hardest thing about being
1:26.0	single is generating that self-love not only as a theory
1:31.2	but integrated into not only your life but you're the fiber of your being in your bones, you know
1:46.8	Anyway, come with me because I'm taking hundreds of people for seven days and we're going to dive deep
1:56.2	Into reclaiming your singlehood and doing it with like-minded people is going to be what's healing.
2:03.6	Tap my bio, we're doing this in a couple weeks.
2:11.6	I have nothing else to say. I'll see you inside.
2:14.6	Being vulnerable about your struggles with your partner. How do you not panic afterward?
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