Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self

This book was recommended to me by my tutor on my counselling course. For many years I have felt alone and my inner child wounded and never having left me. When I experienced more difficult experiences in my life, my inner child felt hurt even more and neglected. I knew that it was time to listen to that child and face the painful things because it would hold the key to unlock my healing and allow me to find peace as well as become stronger and more insightful and confident to make sense of myself and the world. Lucia Capacchione the author allows your inner child to be heard, come out and be creative and allow you to heal and find answers you may not even know you wanted to ask or knew. It allows you to meet your inner child, embrace your vulnerable child, accept your angry inner child, be your own nurturing and protecting parent towards your inner child, deal with the critical parent within and come face to face with the wounds of childhood. It gives the inner child a right to be heard, come out to play, celebrate it's creativity and discover it's spiritual self. She states it's the part of us that feels emotions, is playful, creative and intuitive. Healing our inner child holds the key to intimacy in relationships, physical and emotional well being , wisdom and even can help those recovering from addictions. She also claims that illness can be a result from wounds of our inner child and so recognising it is significant to recovery. The exercises require you to write and draw, just like child therapy works wonders through expressing emotions by a child's innate ability to draw. Most of the writing requires you to do so with your non-dominant hand to bring out that childlike quality of learning how to write and childish writing as well as tap into your subconscious mind. This book will lead to many self discoveries and heal a much valued part of ourselves that is precious and lives life with wonder and authentically when healed. It unlocks our authentic selves and who we truly were and authentically are without the social conditioning or the hurts placed upon us. It's helpful whether your childhood was positive or not in capturing your inner child and making it an integral part of your being and living. One of the best books in regards to understanding and healing your inner child.

An incredible book, the best book on inner child healing I have ever come across.I have been in therapy for a long time and this has been so healing and helpful to get in touch with my inner child. I definitely recommend to do this work alongside a therapist.

very practical book not too wordsy which i think is just right for doing self development work - its about doing the work not just reading about it. the exercises are excellent but do open stuff up and get your emotions going so be ready for it

An excellent book that supports the therapeutic journey to heal ones inner child trauma. Its ease of layout , visual cues and gentle exercises with full explanations aids the readers 'inner child' to come forth and feel held. I have used this book for many years to support my clients relationship with their wounded child and needed a new copy as I frequently loan it to clients and colleagues. NB. This book advises that you have a best friend or therapist to work through any deep and complex feelings that may arise IF you choose to embark on this journey. Childhood wounds and the stored trauma has a debilitating affect on relationships and how we meet and view the world. Tread softly through your past, take note of your dreams and re-actions to others and your mood swings and seek help should you unearth feelings and emotions that you were not prepared for.

I only wish this was available in an ebook so it is more easily portable to read on the bus or in a waiting room. It might also be nice to provide blank pages to do the art work in . I had an art book spare so I have used that alongside it but it would be handy to have that built in. Other than that it’s great. Vital stuff. Highly recommended

I really like this book. It is helped me a lot even after just 3 weeks I feel the missing parts of me that I have searched for for 40 years maybe!!! Sometimes there is a lot of words and I don't read it so much, I just do the exercises of drawing and communicating with the inner parts of you. And they work. I am finding the missing key to my life, and wasn't sure if I was going to die before I found it, so I am grateful. Sometimes the work is a hard to learn to speak to your inner child and inner parent, but the drawing makes it more easy so it is not just about talking, but feeling and playing and learning naturally. I have real hope for myself now.

Depends just how many of these books you investigate and which one you take to most for all of them give you options as to how to deal with inner pain and the results of dyfunctional or alcohol based families. To try and work with too many is confusing but as the price is often just the cost of postage it is worth getting a few send and then deciding which one to work with. This particular one seems straighforward is is my choice. I think the cover probably gives the best insight into it in this case.

It is easy to understand and helps you focus on understanding your inner child and is easy to explain to my counselling clients

Libro totalmente nuevo, en inglés, lo recomiendo

Good book

Book was in good condition and it was a good reading

One of my favourite books of all the time. The wisdom and exercises are brillian, it helped me in my most difficult time of my life when I was close to death. It inspired to continue this journey and find streigh and wisdom in my inner child. I still use the exercises quite often, it is a book which I will go for support over and over again. I love this author and her wisdom and gentle guidance.

Awful ebook formatting, has nobody even taken a look at it before publishing it? :(