Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

I used to do this thing on Tumblr back in the day where I would post something called

Message in a Bottle and at the time I was working in a non-profit as a addiction counselor, working with kids, and then

running a family support group for their parents.

And they didn't have access to the internet so I would be pretending like I was

writing case notes and I would be blogging most of the time but I was I would write

these little letters to one of the kids, eventually, you know, my clients, but specifically

to one kid at a time, and a very personal letter.

Keeping it anonymous but if that kid read it he or she knew it was to them right and

so I planted all these message in a

bottles in my blog hoping that one day when they got out that they could

read it, you know, I thought it would be nice.

Anyway, this podcast episode is a message in the bottle and it's to anyone who jumped into the lab who shared a story.

I don't care if you came one class or you've been there for two years. This message is for you. So we had our final

lab meeting to close the lab.

And if you're listening to this and you don't know the lab is something I created

when the pandemic started and we were all trapped at home and I thought if we're all trapped at home let's connect and let's not only connect but you know what if I brought a team together of

some rock star coaches and therapists and what if we started running groups and we went in casual and over clinical and it felt like a

a fireside chat, you know, can we create a safe space where we could all share stories and hold hands and be vulnerable?

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