Car Chronicles EP 3: Wasted Potential & Bloody Pockets: Why We Keep Cutting Ourselves

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Trauma shapes us in ways we rarely understand, manifesting uniquely for each person while establishing patterns that can limit our potential for decades. Whether it comes from childhood poverty, bullying experiences, or feeling overwhelmed by adult responsibilities, these wounds create protective mechanisms that might have served us once but now keep us trapped.

My own journey through childhood financial struggles, being "the stinky kid" in school, and later confronting my habit of abandoning pursuits at the first sign of difficulty revealed how deeply these patterns run. I realized I had wasted potential in so many areas—from saxophone playing to language learning to photography—because unaddressed trauma had programmed me to quit rather than push through discomfort. The only pursuit where I've maintained consistency has been fitness, which ironically has become my path to helping others break similar cycles.

This is why effective fitness coaching must go beyond sets and reps to address the emotional intelligence that drives behavior. When clients struggle with consistency, it's rarely about the program itself. Rather, it's about years of accumulated stress, relationship difficulties, work pressure, and unresolved emotions making everything seem more overwhelming than it actually is. True transformation comes from tracing problems to their roots, developing a higher threshold for stress, and finding purpose through honest self-reflection. There's a profound difference between taking a vacation and running from your life—one refreshes you while the other perpetuates cycles of avoidance. Which are you currently doing? The answer might reveal exactly what's holding you back from the breakthrough you've been seeking.

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