James Laughlin grew up in chaos: addiction, abuse, moving constantly. He swore he'd be different, then caught himself repeating everything by his early 20s. The question becomes whether you keep running from your past or finally stop and face it.
Was there anything in your childhood that actually sent you on that pathway of going, hey, I actually want to try and heal that thing? Yeah, I think with my childhood. So I came out of my childhood. There was addiction and abuse, and my parents split up early, and we moved a lot. There was lots of trauma. And so if we just kind of went through a checklist of, like, all the stuff you wouldn't want to happen in childhood, I kind of checked off the boxes. And so I did what a lot of people do, which is that I just swore I'd be different. And so I just kind of declared, yep, I'm not going to live that way. That will never be me. And then, wouldn't you know it, in my early 20s, I was the same person I didn't want to be. And so I remember just kind of catching myself in the mirror one day going, hey, remember when you said you were going to be different? Remember that? That didn't happen. And so now we have this really important decision to make, which is that we can run for the rest of our lives from all this stuff, or we can stop and face it.
