To change the fruit you must deal with the root!

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As a kid, James gets beaten up by another boy living in an apartment complex filled with Hell’s Angels.

His four-foot-something redheaded mother finds out…

… marches straight into the middle of the bikers…

… pounds on the door…

… and confronts the boy’s mother.

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What follows is an unexpected lesson in courage, respect, protection, and the strange ways people can become connected.

But that story opens the door to something much deeper.

James talks about being placed in a group home, the abuse he experienced there, his mother’s own recovery from alcoholism, and the year of his teenage life spent moving through treatment centers for an addiction he says he never actually had.

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The more nobody believed him, the more James learned how to tell them exactly what they expected to hear.

And along the way, he received an education he never needed.

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Sometimes the solution to one problem becomes the beginning of another.

Again, this episode explores what happens when we manage symptoms without ever reaching the root—and why real healing requires going deeper…

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📕 Join the book launch team for James’ upcoming book = www.GY6.online/james

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The story of trauma and chaos and confusion didn’t begin with the military, service dogs, or the battlefield.

It began much earlier.

With a teenage mother…

A broken marriage…

An abusive stepfather…

Constant military moves…

And a childhood where chaos became normal.

In this episode of Tethered, we go back to the beginning and meet Kathy—James’ mother—and Uncle Lloyd, two people carrying enormous amounts of trauma of their own.

(Nope, their stories didn’t start with the *first moment of trauma either.)

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James recounts the violence inside his home, the years of alcoholism and abuse, and the way those experiences shaped his understanding of anger, survival, trust, and family.

Then the story takes an even darker turn.

After Kathy suffers a brutal attack, her life begins to unravel. James is temporarily placed outside the home, and Uncle Lloyd— a Coast Guard veteran carrying his own unresolved trauma— steps into the story in a way James would never forget.

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But this episode isn’t simply about what happened.

It’s about why people become who they become.

Disorder.

Decision.

Drive.

Trauma. Environment. Responsibility. Survival.

Sometimes the better question isn’t, “What’s wrong with you?”

Sometimes it’s: “What happened to you… and what are you still carrying?”

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Or, to ask it another way…

Do we have compounding chaos or do we have compounding order…?

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📓 Grab Andy’s book (or audiobook) “Soul & Spirit | Health + Healing” = www.GY6.online/SSHH

📕 Join the book launch team for James’ upcoming book = www.GY6.online/james

⭐️ Personal coaching = Jenkins.tv/PC

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Things break.

Sometimes it’s people, other times it’s place, and in other moments it’s situations.

The thing is, well…

Restoration doesn’t always look like a “precise return” to what we once had. Many times, grace moves us forward to EVEN BETTER, but (and this is the tension) a move forward doesn’t always erase the pain of the past.

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James and Andy talk about the infamous time the mobile home became untethered from the semi that was pulling it AND THEN made it’s way down the interstate towards the Tundra + RV that were parked way off the side of the road…

And, they dialogue about the chaos and confusion created in that moment, as well as what occurred afterwards.

In fact, in a real sense, they— and YOU— are walking through the aftermath of that moment…

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📓 Grab Andy’s book (or audiobook) “Soul & Spirit | Health + Healing” = www.GY6.online/SSHH

⭐️ Info on personal coaching: www.Jenkins.tv/PC

📕 James’ book info: www.GY6.online/james

🎙️ Upcoming workshops: www.GY6.online/events