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Deal With It Now

Feb 29, 2024

02:49

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Addressing personal baggage and unresolved issues to prevent passing them on to future generations is highlighted through Bruce Springsteen's story. The episode emphasizes the importance of breaking detrimental cycles for the well-being of one's children.

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Address personal issues to prevent passing them on to children.

Break the cycle of generational issues by seeking therapy and healing.

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Importance of Dealing with Personal Issues

It is crucial to address our personal issues and traumas to prevent passing them on to our children. The weight of unresolved baggage grows heavier as we age, impacting not only ourselves but also future generations. Bruce Springsteen's experiences highlight the consequences of not dealing with one's past, emphasizing that the emotional toll is not only paid by the individual but also by their family. By actively working on our issues, seeking therapy, and healing, we can break the cycle and provide our children with a healthier emotional foundation.

Confronting Personal Baggage for Future Generations' Sake

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We all have our issues. We had trauma from childhood. We have bad habits we picked up in college. We have scripts we learned, patterns we’ve repeated, coping mechanisms we’ve developed.

We prefer not to die with them, to carry them always. But when exactly are we planning on dealing with them? In a perfect world, we would have gotten serious about it before we had kids. In the next best world, we’d deal with them now.

“All I know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier,” Bruce Springsteen explains in his spectacular autobiography Born To Run, “…much heavier.” We talked before about his strange and disorienting childhood, which was warped by the grief of his grandparents and their inclination to spoil him, along with the distance and demons of his father. He related that, like a lot of us, “the defenses I built to withstand the stress of my childhood, to save what I had of myself, outlived their usefulness…” When the bill comes due, Springsteen says, the payment is in tears.

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