Restored: Moving From Just Surviving to Healed and Rejoicing

We all have a past. None of us escape childhood without some type of baggage. It's inevitable that we all enter adulthood with at least a little damage. When we don't deal with our past and repair the incorrect thinking we've picked up during childhood, we end up feeling unfulfilled, discontented, and fragmented. It is at this point we begin searching for a way to cope with our dissatisfaction.Leaving behind the damage-the baggage caused by childhood trauma, abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment, or neglect-doesn't happen by pretending it never existed. Denial doesn't heal trauma. Instead, it creates slaves to addiction, disassociation, eating disorders, grief, depression, over-spending, self-mutilation, risky sexual behavior, and relationship dysfunction. But God has made a way for us to climb out of our past and find healing. He is big, capable, powerful, supernatural and everything we need to overcome what ails us. This Bible study is made up of ten lessons with reflection questions at the end of each session. Weekly Sessions include:1. Do You Really Need Help?2. Freedom Is Available3. God's Plan Is Restoration4. Decide to Do A New Thing5. Learning to Trust God6. Understanding Where We Came From7. Dealing with the Dysfunction of Our Family8. Healing Painful Memories9. We Were Created to be Dependent10. Knowing Your Identity and Value