Masculine fear, insomnia, and fitness are folded into one steady conversation.
John Kim and Andy Thompson spend the episode circling masculine fear, especially the way men can hesitate to act when they worry the wrong move will be judged harshly.

Therapy talk with rough edges.
The Angry Therapist Podcast is a raw mental health show built around John Kim’s candid stories, relationship questions, and therapy-informed riffs. It moves from love and limerence to surfing, insomnia, masculinity, joy, and the small human moments that change everything.
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The Angry Therapist Podcast is a long-running mental health show centered on John Kim’s direct, autobiographical approach to therapy and relationships. It is not tidy wellness audio. It is closer to a working notebook with a microphone: candid, reflective, sometimes funny, and often sparked by an ordinary moment that suddenly exposes a deeper pattern. A near-miss in the surf becomes a lesson about repair, eye contact, and how fast anger can change when someone offers simple human connection. A treehouse recording becomes a way to think about joy, risk, the left brain’s objections, and the value of doing something because it feels alive. A conversation about 50-50 fairness in a relationship turns away from income and status toward effort, growth, accountability, and the willingness to build something larger than the self. Love is treated as practice, not sentiment. Past wounds are framed as maps people may have inherited without ever choosing them. Desire is discussed as more than sex, tied to aliveness, sensuality, presence, and a fuller sense of self. Guest conversations shift the pace. Brooks Wilson brings in ceremony, sound healing, presence, and the contrast between city life and a slower way of moving through the world. Robin Ducharme appears in a conversation about learning how to love well, book energy, and the emotional charge of the phrase “can we talk.” Andy Thompson brings masculinity, muscle, insomnia, friendship, and self-worth into a looser golf-cart conversation. The show can be blunt. It can also be tender. Its best moments come when a messy personal detail becomes usable without being overprocessed. There is humor about therapy culture, dating anxiety, dad jokes, and spiritual language, but the show keeps circling back to responsibility. It asks what a person contributes to a relationship dynamic, what patterns are being repeated, and what might happen when old definitions of love are questioned. The result is self-help with rough edges and a strong pulse.
Made for: For people drawn to candid relationship work, emotional self-auditing, and therapy-informed reflection that does not sound clinical. It especially suits listeners interested in love, dating, patterns, self-worth, and personal change.
What sets it apart: The show turns lived moments into therapy material, moving from surf scares, treehouses, retreats, and book conversations into practical emotional insight. Its strength is the mix of blunt confession, humor, and relationship analysis without a polished wellness sheen.
Audio-Only Episodes. Captain’s Log: No guests. No fluff. Just me, the mic, and whatever’s clawing at my insides. Think audio journaling meets back-of-the-bar confessions. Less psychobabble, more soul bleed. Raw, real, and mostly for me. Audio + Video Episodes. You ask, I riff. Therapy meets real talk. More structure, more insight, more of the good stuff on love, dating, and tools we need to build a healthy relationship. Awesome guests. Less navel-gazing, more crowd-serving. This one’s for you.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Masculine fear, insomnia, and fitness are folded into one steady conversation.
John Kim and Andy Thompson spend the episode circling masculine fear, especially the way men can hesitate to act when they worry the wrong move will be judged harshly.
A focused, sometimes dense look at how co-regulation, toxic shame, and unmet yearning shape attachment and addictive escape.
Attachment trauma is framed here through a steady pair of concerns: how an infant's unmet need for attunement can settle into the body as an expectation of disappointment, and how toxic shame can make addiction feel like an escape route.
A relationship-focused episode about self-trust, familiar patterns, and noticing warning signs sooner.
This relationship-focused episode keeps its attention on a blunt but useful question: what counts as love, and what is simply a familiar pattern wearing a softer name?

Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.

Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.

Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.


The Angry Therapist explores the nuances of modern relationships in a solo episode.
John Kim and Rebecca Prolman continue their attachment trauma series, exploring how childhood wounds shape adult relationships.
John Kim and Vanessa examine dating expectations through questions about infatuation, “if he wanted to, he would,” and the pressure to find “the one.” They distinguish temporary infatuation from more durable qualities such as respect, appreciation, and admiration.
Jon Kim lists experiences he wants more of, including chosen family in Costa Rica, language-free connection, Spanish, kimchi-making, publishing other people's words, and sunsets on a surfboard.
The Angry Therapist Podcast episode “Therapy Thursdays | The Inner Work Behind Healthy Relationships” frames peace as something a person gives themselves during breakups, divorce, rejection, and other periods of inner chaos.
John Kim reads personal notes about masculinity, love, growth, rumination, and life in Costa Rica on The Angry Therapist Podcast.
John Kim answers a listener question, "how do men find self after wife gives birth and sex declines?", by describing a postpartum mother as depleted physically, mentally and spiritually.
John Kim and his wife Vanessa Bennett propose that couples promise to never reach hatred and to keep working on themselves, instead of promising "I will be with you forever." Vanessa says betrayal is rooted in "unspoken agreements" tied to attachment wounds, and that those sit beneath visible betrayals like cheating.
Sarah Williams, a medicine guide and former adventure photographer, tells John Kim about her first ayahuasca ceremony, in which she felt she experienced her father's death from cancer.
This episode features an interview with Brooks Wilson, exploring themes of presence, healing, and embracing a slower lifestyle through personal anecdotes and reflections on overcoming fears.
This episode explores the distinction between love, limerence, and fear in relationships, emphasizing that true equality comes from personal effort and growth rather than financial contributions.
John Kim introduces his new book 'Love Hard on Purpose' by exploring how past wounds and societal influences distort our understanding of love, encouraging listeners to create their own authentic definitions.
This episode explores the deeper meaning of erotica and desire beyond just sex, emphasizing feminine energy, sensuality, and connection, featuring therapists in a casual slumber party setting.
Therapist John Kim interviews Robin Ducharme about learning how to love well, exploring emotional struggles and personal growth in relationships.
The Angry Therapist Podcast with John Kim and guest Andy Thompson centers on fitness, masculinity, and the way men build self-worth through ability.
A therapist shares his journey from misery to helping others through honest self-help, discussing accountability and a spontaneous decision to podcast from a treehouse as an example of embracing joy.
A therapist shares a surfing incident where a young girl's quick apology transformed his anger into appreciation, illustrating how small human connections can resolve conflicts and foster emotional growth.
This episode features a therapist discussing the importance of asking key questions in therapy to foster self-understanding and vulnerability, using personal anecdotes about relationships and spiritual growth.
This episode features an interview with therapist Laird Torrance, where host John Kim asks personal questions to humanize therapists, starting with what therapists have healed in others but not themselves.
This episode explores manifestation and living in higher frequency through spiritual and emotional alignment, drawing from personal experiences and therapy insights.