The Yellow Suitcase : What We Carry From Childhood-and What We Pack Into the Children We Love
Overview
What are you still carrying from childhood-and what might you be placing into the suitcases of the children you love?
Every child carries an invisible suitcase.
Into it go the words they hear, the experiences they endure, the expectations placed upon them, the people who believe in them, and the moments that quietly teach them who they are. Some things become strengths they carry for a lifetime. Others become weights they were never meant to carry at all.
In The Yellow Suitcase, therapist Ben Gleaves explores a simple but powerful question: What is this child carrying?
Through stories drawn from family life, counseling, faith, relationships, and years of working with children and families, Gleaves shows how adults can become more aware of what children experience beneath the surface-and how our own unfinished stories can shape what we give to the next generation.
The Yellow Suitcase is more than a metaphor. It is a way of seeing.
It invites parents, grandparents, counselors, educators, pastors, coaches, and other caring adults to become curious before judgmental, to recognize the difference between a child's behavior and a child's burden, and to ask what belongs in a child's suitcase-and what does not.
Along the way, readers are also invited to open their own suitcase. Because sometimes the weight we are trying to remove from a child began as something we learned to carry ourselves.
We cannot prevent children from carrying anything. But we can help make sure they don't carry what was never theirs to hold.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798178585221
- ISBN-10: 9798178585221
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.58 pounds
- Page Count: 190
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