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If you don't believe me, go home for the holidays, hang out with your parents, right?

You snap back into the 15-year-old trying to climb out the window. That is a relationship

dynamic. That is a pattern that has been cemented since you're young. So that's hard to break.

But it's creating new patterns.

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

journey and turning expired relationships into revelations.

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

because self-help doesn't have to be polished or complicated, just honest.

Today is my New Year's episode, and I don't know if I've ever done a New Year's episode,

but I have 12 powerful questions that, or at least I think they're

powerful, that I think you should ask yourself for 2006.

There are questions I'm also asking myself, and I will answer some of them on this podcast.

But real quick, holy shit, what a difference.

Not what a difference, but how much can happen in one year?

If you've been following my story, it's only been a year since we lost our house in the

Altadina fires.

And my day to day, my life is completely different.

Not what I do, right?

I mean, I'm still writing books and podcasting and documenting my story,

but everything else pretty much has changed besides the fact that I have the same

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