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Through these conversations we will be exploring the pain of our childhoods, honoring the work our younger selves did to help us survive, discussing the ongoing impact of coping with that pain, and where we have sought and found healing. Typically when we think of baggage, we tend to think of all the ways it makes us bad at relationships, Baggage is more than what makes us bad at relationships. Baggage is the pain we carry and the lessons it has taught us. For those of us who grew up with difficult childhoods, we carry our own unique kind of baggage. We’ve seen some things, been through some...

Baggage has gotten a bad rap. We think it's all bad. We think it makes us less likely to have good, healthy relationships today. But baggage isn't just the bad stuff that happened to us in the past. It's the lessons we've taken from the pain we carry. It's how what we've been through has actually made us stronger and more capable than we imagine. And it's how we're going to make our current relationships work. Far from minimizing past pain, pastor Ike Miller shows you how to go through the baggage you carry from a difficult childhood and pull out the good stuff.