Laura McKowen

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841 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

Laura McKowen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I'm looking forward, I'm not looking back.

Was a very disorganized.

um love and for my parents and at times uh abusive and at times wonderful um but overall I just learned that I had to hustle uh and

lie and make things happen so that I could get what I needed, right?

And

That

is underneath everything, all of my behavior.

Um, and you develop these coping mechanisms in childhood so that you can just survive and deal and it's all very intelligent.

It's like a the the smart thing that kids do.

But when you keep doing that as an adult, say lying.

to make people like you, for example, uh, or to keep the peace, quote unquote.

It's not super functional, and not only that, but it

Causes a lot of pain in your relationships and it causes a lot of internal pain.

And that showed up in my relationships with men, which were a big like area of my

underneath my drinking.

Um and it it showed up first not even as drinking, but as this like eating disorder.

Like I got

Right.

had an eating disorder like a lot of women do before I ever started drinking, just as a way to try to control my world, right?

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