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The Angry Therapist Podcast

The 12 Principles of Secure Love + How to Fight Without Fighting

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

🎓 Full video course: HERE All modules, worksheets, and bonus sessions. This video compiles key moments from two core modules from our relationship course: Module 1 — The 12 Principles: a practical framework for secure-functioning relationships. These aren’t rules to follow perfectly -  they’re principles that guide how you show up when things get hard. The real, messy, human version of healthy love where two people choose growth over perfection. Module 2 — How to Fight Without Fighting: conflict isn’t the enemy; how we handle it is. You’ll learn tools that don’t require perfection, just presence — the kind that create safety instead of defensiveness so disagreements become connection-builders, not breakup fuel. 📘 Read John’s new book in progress Sh*t Your Therapist Would Never Tell You on John’s SubStack ⁠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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0:00.0

it's almost i call this emotional i keto where ikeido instead of striking the other person you're

0:06.1

taking their energy and kind of using it to flip them over right also made me jiu jitsu and it's kind of like

0:12.7

that because the obvious is oh you punch me i'm going to punch you back right but instead kind of

0:18.2

taking their energy as data and information and going under.

0:23.2

That is what defuses fights very fast.

0:30.1

I'm John Kim, a licensed therapist who used to be a miserable fuck before going on a hero's journey

0:35.2

and turning expired relationships into revelations.

0:38.7

I use my story to help others come with you instead of at you,

0:43.1

unrehearsed on purpose, because self-help doesn't have to be polished or complicated.

0:48.4

Just honest.

0:59.7

This is a compilation of some of the work from Stan Takkin, some of the work that our couple therapists has kind of cobbled her own stuff, and then we kind of took it and put our

1:03.1

own spin on it, kind of removed some that we didn't really feel were very aligned.

1:07.0

Like it's a bit of amalgamation.

1:09.6

Okay.

1:10.5

So the first one, we protect the safety and security

1:15.3

of our relationship at all times. So if we're in a secure dynamic, we know that the safety

1:23.2

and security of the relationship is primary, right? And we do whatever we can to protect that.

1:29.5

Number two, we are fully transparent with each other and tell each other everything.

1:37.0

So we wanted to say something about this because there is...

1:41.7

Because it activated the shit out of me when I first heard us.

1:49.2

So for the Aches, of course, you would champion this, right?

1:52.1

Of course, we tell each other everything at all times.

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