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Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child
Using a wealth of practical techniques, informative case histories and unique questionnaires, John Bradshaw demonstrates how your wounded inner child may be causing you pain. You'll learn to gradually, safely, go back to reclaim and nurture that inner child - and literally help yourself grow up again. Homecoming shows you how to:
Validate your inner child throug...more
Validate your inner child throug...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
February 1st 1992
by Bantam
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This book has some very fascinating information, if you can suspend your cynicism long enough to get into it. I greatly enjoyed reading the first half and felt like the author knew my exact situation because of the scarily accurate "diagnosis" he gave. But once I got to the exercises, I lost interest. I'd like to know how to heal my inner child without having to do weird meditations, thank you. Actually, I'm not sure I believe in the whole concept of an inner child, I thought it wa...more
I went to a "Healing the Shame That Binds You" presentation by John Bradshaw back in the early seventies. He spoke to a crowd of just over a thousand people and at times when he was sharing stories of his personal shame scenerios you could literally hear a pin drop. This guy knows how to shed light on those dark painful areas that we hold inside. Reading his books and watching the series he had on PBS years ago changed my life for the better! Thank You John Bradshaw!
Hmmm, touched on some of the techniques in the trauma therapy I am doing, but this guy sort of took it and ran with it and then baked it into a fruitcake. Really cheesy, sort of Freudian. That being said, the main theory behind it is helpful. But I wouldn't spend $17 on it again.
This book is very near and dear to me as it was the 1st book I read at 18 after giving birth and beginning my journey of healing and self-discovery.
This book changed my life. I can't express adequately how grateful I am my mother read it and shared it with me when I was still a teenager.
I liked the notion of understanding and healing the "inner child". It is important to forgive ourselves and move on
I didn't do the meditation exercises, felt a bit awkward, but this book does have some good information.
Am still learning from this book! How to address and heal your inner child.
Kittywaymo
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Great! highly recommend
This book wasn't helpful for me but I have a friend is growing a lot from her work with this book.
this book changed my life. i recommend it to everyone who lived at the mercy of distressed adults (even for the proverbial minute), and/or who grew up uncomfortable, embarrassed, ashamed and distressed themselves. plus, if you have, or ever had, an addiction or other compulsion (like perfectionism), this is hard-hitting like a velvet hammer and a cuddle hybrid. it just might just take you home.
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So many personal development books lazily repeat the same simple truths with a few new anecdotes confettied around. But this, set out like a text book, with exercises, is a really original and powerful workbook for self healing and spiritual integration. Bradshaw pioneered 'inner child' work and this is still its best introduction.
This is an excellent way to work through the process of healing and reclaiming your 'inner child." It's great to do this individually or with a therapist. Gets into deeper psychological healing for trauma/neglect at all developmental stages.
Although I think Bradshaw is a good public speak (I have seen/met him a few times) i really do not beleive in his inner child theroy. It doe snot provide a lasting peacein overcoming turmoil and childhood abuse issues.
It would probably seem a little dry to some, but I am interested in this "stuff".
Didn't do the exercises, but there's some good stuff in there.
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I just started and I can't put it down.
Painful but useful informaiton
Translation of 'Homecoming'
very intersting
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