In my early years, I was in bondage to what people thought of me. But I've worked through why and God has freed me. It stemmed from my inability to please the most important people in my life growing up. In the home where I grew up if you performed well you were loved, if not, love was withdrawn. And just like a powerful virus, I caught that dysfunction from well meaning but sick people. And it grew into flawed thinking: if people think I'm valuable, then I must be. God knew that if I was going to thrive in life, I needed freedom from that bondage and so he's…