What Happens in Childhood

There is a Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until they are seven, and I'll give you the man." In other words, what happens in childhood stays in adulthood. As young innocents we are under the control of and influenced by someone else. We have absolutely no say in what happens in our narrow little world. Unless we are in a safe place, an environment where our caretakers are concerned about our best interests (not theirs), we are at risk for developing thought processes and behaviors that are at minimum non-productive and at most destructive to ourselves and others. Once those behaviors are locked into our persona, they're there for life...unless, that is, you set out like I did to fix myself.

I chose psychology as my major in college because I thought it would help me understand me and then fix me. It didn't. The day I walked out of my last psych class I continued down the same exact path as the first day of college. I was hardwired to be who I was, and changing that was not going to be easy.

Since Plan A didn't work, I knew I had to find another way to change my behavior and fix my broken self.