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-help doesn't have to be so complicated.

So I live on a very quiet street which I love it is a it's a dead end block and

we're uphill or up here in the hills. There are parrots and animals but not a lot of noise as far as neighbors, but of course every time I sit down to do a podcast

someone is mowing their lawn. There's something happening.

Today, I think there's neighbors playing music, which is very rare here.

So I apologize for that.

I do everything with the garage door open.

And I do that on purpose because I really believe that

I'm a big believer in state in how I feel which is going to make me just

show up better and so doing a podcast in a closed garage is very depressing and I'm just not going to do my best work.

So I have to open the garage and so with that comes you know Amazon trucks and sometimes some music in the

background so I apologize for that anyway before I talk about the four stages of a

relationship and why it's important for you to know that there are actual stages of a

relationship so you don't just react to feelings knowing that there is a reason why, it's like grief, you know, when you're

grieving, there are stages of grief and people go through that in you know different orders right like

denial acceptance anger you know and and the stages that you grow through they don't really have a timeline.

It's unique to the individual,

but knowing that there are actual stages

help so much.

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