You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast.

I'm Adam Young and today we are going to look at four of the most common obstacles to healing.

In other words, what gets in the way?

God created our hearts, minds and bodies to heal. We are designed to heal. If you get a cut,

it heals. If you break your arm, the bone heals as long as the conditions for healing are right.

What I want to do today is identify four things that I frequently run into which block

the natural healing process from unfolding when it comes to trauma,

harm from our growing up years. The first thing that gets in the way of healing is minimizing your

story. Minimizing your story. Look, it is almost guaranteed that you are minimizing your story.

Now, how can I say that even though I don't know you? Because I cannot think of a single person

who has come into my office and done the opposite. Someone who believed that their story was affecting

them more than it actually was. Someone who is blowing their story out of proportion, right?

Everyone I know minimizes their story. Now, by minimizing, what do I mean? I mean that you think

your past doesn't affect you very much today. Minimizing means that you are dismissing

or discounting how significantly your growing up years have shaped the neurons that filter every

experience you have today. Minimizing means that you don't really believe that your story as a

boy or a girl continues to profoundly affect your thoughts, feelings, and choices today.

Everyone I know minimizes their story. Including me, I need other people to help me see

where I'm still minimizing the harm that was done to me as a boy.

Now, in Jeremiah 6 and 8, you've heard me talk about this passage. Boy do I love it. Okay,

God says something fascinating, fascinating to the leaders of Israel. He gets very angry because

the leaders of his people are minimizing the wounds of Israel. Here's how God puts it in

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