Three cheers for John Bradshaw! A thoroughly enjoyable, helpful, practical, fun and ultimately liberating book for anyone who has unresolved issues with their childhood and who has tried (and failed) to move onward and forward with their lives as an adult.īradshaw doesn't spend a lot of time dwelling on the circumstances that led to feelings of shame or grief from childhood trauma's, although he does a wonderful job of validating how those feelings came to be. No one has ever brought them to a popular audience more effectively and inspiringly than John Bradshaw.Truly helpful and not just another self help psychobabble book Pioneering when first introduced by John Bradshaw, these classic therapies are now being validated by the new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience. HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child offers a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including indexes of suspicion questionnaires, non-dominant-hand letter writing, guided meditations, grief work, and affirmations.

Through a step-be-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage in our childhood, we can break away for the destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. In this powerful life-changing book, HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, John Bradshaw shows us how we can learn to nurture that sometimes needy inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. If our vulnerable child was hurt, abandoned, shamed, or neglected, that child's pain, grief, and anger live on within us.

We first see the world though the eyes of a little child, and that 'inner child' remains with us throughout our lives, no matter how outwardly 'grown-up' and powerful we become. 'The healed inner child becomes a source of vitality and creativity, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living' John Bradshawĭo you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often 'lose it' in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but wonder if it's worth the struggle? Are you consumed at times by anxiety or depression? Coming home to your true self may help.

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