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 over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

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

This is a client's story titled Happily Never After and of course names are changed for

Confengality to make this anonymous.

After nearly 22 years of a sexless, joyless marriage, she's been ready for something, anything different.

Javier seemed like that something.

Not at first.

They had known each other since middle school,

but they were barely acquaintances.

But recently, his social media presence started creeping into her feed

No kids on his shoulders no fake smiles no curated life

Just him alone

working on his bike writing cryptic statuses like sometimes the most meaningful

connections happen in silence. He wasn't vomiting his life all over Facebook

like everyone else he knew.

That caught her attention.

It was refreshing, she said, and then quickly added, oh, no offense.

None taken, I replied knowing damn well I'd been quote-unquote vomiting all over

social media before influencers were a thing.

Blogs, podcast, newsletters,

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