Charles L. Whitfield
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Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
27 editions
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1987
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Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
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14 editions
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1993
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A Gift to Myself: A Personal Workbook and Guide to "Healing the Child Within"
5 editions
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1990
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Co-Dependence Healing the Human Condition: The New Paradigm for Helping Professionals and People in Recovery
4 editions
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1991
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Memory and Abuse
7 editions
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1995
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The Power of Humility: Choosing Peace over Conflict in Relationships
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5 editions
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2006
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Wisdom To Know The Difference: Core Issues in Relationships, Recovery and Living
2 editions
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2012
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The Truth About Depression: Choices for Healing
6 editions
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published
2003
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My Recovery: A Personal Plan for Healing
5 editions
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2003
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Timeless Troubadours: The Moody Blues' Music and Message
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2 editions
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2013
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“By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.”
― Boundaries and Relationships, Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
― Boundaries and Relationships, Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
“Cermak said, “Those therapists who work successfully with this population have learned to honor the client’s need to keep a lid on his or her feelings. The most effective therapeutic process involves swinging back and forth between uncovering feelings and covering them again, and it is precisely this ability to modulate their feelings that PTSD clients have lost. They must feel secure that their ability to close their emotions down will never be taken away from them, but instead will be honored as an important tool for living. The initial goal of therapy here is to help clients move more freely into their feelings with the assurance that they can find distance from them again if they begin to be overwhelmed. Once children from chemically dependent homes, adult children of alcoholics, and other PTSD clients become confident that you are not going to strip them of their survival mechanisms, they are more likely to allow their feelings to emerge, if only for a moment. And that moment will be a start.” (58)”
― Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
― Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
“Simos said, “Grief work must be shared. In sharing, however, there must be no impatience, censure or boredom with the repetition, because repetition is necessary for catharsis and internalization and eventual unconscious acceptance of the reality of the loss. The bereaved are sensitive to the feelings of others and will not only refrain from revealing feelings to those they consider unequal to the burden of sharing the grief but may even try to comfort the helpers.” (97)”
― Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
― Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
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