Good Baggage, Ike Miller
Good Baggage, Ike Miller
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Good Baggage
How Your Difficult Childhood Prepared You for Healthy Relationships

Author: Ike Miller, Jefferson Bethke

Narrator: Ike Miller

Unabridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2023

Synopsis

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. The intentionality you've developed. The empathy you've gained. The trust you value so highly. Miller shares from his own past in a dysfunctional family impacted by alcoholism and divorce, and his present as part of a healthy and loving family, to illustrate how to stop letting your past sabotage your present.

You'll find no platitudes or pat answers here. Rather, you'll discover untapped riches of experience and knowledge you already have that can make your relationships thrive and change the course of your life and legacy.

About Ike Miller

Ike Miller leads Bright City Church in Durham, North Carolina, a church he planted in 2018 along with his wife, Sharon Hodde Miller. He has written about the intersection of theology, mental health, and family of origin issues in outlets such as Christianity Today and Missio Alliance. After confronting the impact of his own childhood, including a family history of substance use disorders, Ike has developed a passion for helping others who grew up in difficult circumstances to better understand how those environments continue to impact them and their relationships now.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Moonpiegirl

In Good Baggage, Ike Miller approaches the subject of emotional baggage with a fresh perspective. Instead of viewing the pain of emotional hurts as negative, Miller presents the idea that your baggage can be redeemed by helping you navigate current and future relationships. Good Baggage doesn’t mini......more

Goodreads review by Wagner

Ike’s vulnerable and thoughtful engagement with what’s heavy in life makes him a kind and gracious conversation partner to whoever is eager to learn and grow in honoring the Lord within their sphere of influence. The book summarizes and applies common concepts and literature that will be familiar to......more

Goodreads review by Panda

Pastor Ike Miller challenges his readers to think of the benefits their emotional baggage can bring to their adult lives, rather than just focusing on the harmful elements. He shares his personal story throughout this book, showing how he has been able to grow and change, recognizing dysfunctional p......more

Goodreads review by P.M.

Good Baggage explores the tricky liminal space between addressing childhood trauma (in the author’s case a child of an alcoholic) and taking those experiences and using them to shape healthier relationships all with a good dose of spiritual guidance. Author Ike Miller takes a conversational approach......more

Goodreads review by SHELLEY

Good baggage is a deeply insightful book from the first page. Ike manages to navigate a fragile topic, one that many of us have struggled to process which is the effect of our childhoods on our relational patterns. This intricate topic is painstaingly complex yet Ike has managed to shed the layers o......more

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