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Healing Your Inner Child First: Becoming the Best Version of Yourself by Letting Go of the Past, Overcoming Trauma, and Feeling Worthy
What to do with your past when it keeps on following you? What comes to your mind when you hear the term “inner child?” Is it that you are carrying a child within (as in you are pregnant) or that it is a hypothetical version of yourself? This is just the tip of the iceberg you have touched, take a full dive in to get to know more about your inner child. Yes! You have one too! Everyone has an inner child.
No matter how old you are, everyone has a child within. You are your inner kid, but it is not the infantile mentality you have clung to all these years. It’s your subconscious mind at work. It is you who possesses all your suppressed childhood memories and sentiments that return from time to time. It’s critical to your well-being and progress to heal your inner child FIRST.
Healing your inner child FIRST is critical because everything about whom you are originated in the experiences of the first years of your life. If you don’t find peace with your inner child, you can work on yourself as hard as you want, but you will never feel fully fulfilled in life as you will always carry the pain of your unfulfilled child with you. That’s why you must start with healing your inner child today!
This book is an excellent resource for discovering your inner child. Not only that, but it also explains how to reclaim your inner child following any major or minor trauma, and how to do so in order to reach your full potential. If you want to live a fulfilling life, you must not abandon this part of yourself.
Even if you’re doing this all by yourself, you can start healing your inner child with ‘’Healing Your Inner Child First’’!
No matter how old you are, everyone has a child within. You are your inner kid, but it is not the infantile mentality you have clung to all these years. It’s your subconscious mind at work. It is you who possesses all your suppressed childhood memories and sentiments that return from time to time. It’s critical to your well-being and progress to heal your inner child FIRST.
Healing your inner child FIRST is critical because everything about whom you are originated in the experiences of the first years of your life. If you don’t find peace with your inner child, you can work on yourself as hard as you want, but you will never feel fully fulfilled in life as you will always carry the pain of your unfulfilled child with you. That’s why you must start with healing your inner child today!
This book is an excellent resource for discovering your inner child. Not only that, but it also explains how to reclaim your inner child following any major or minor trauma, and how to do so in order to reach your full potential. If you want to live a fulfilling life, you must not abandon this part of yourself.
Even if you’re doing this all by yourself, you can start healing your inner child with ‘’Healing Your Inner Child First’’!
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August 25, 2022
Worth what I paid for it (I got it free)
Cher Hampton means well. At least I think so. It's not like she wrote this book for money (it was free), and I got the impression she believes in what she's written in "Healing Your Inner Child First."
I was with her through the first half of the book -- well, mostly. I highlighted several sentences in the first ten pages. Then I hit "Root Chakra" on page 10 and started to wonder what I was heading into. She writes that the "Root Chakra Existence Cycle" is seven years and "establishes the basis of who we are throughout our first seven years of life. As a result, our fundamental ideas and unconscious behaviors are formed."
Okay. So if I experienced trauma in those first seven years, it likely will affect me for the rest of my life if I don't address it. I get that. Then I got it again when she repeated this in a different way, and yet again when she went over it a third time.
Here's what I got from the book: if you've been traumatized (and who hasn't?), you need to let your inner child take over and do some coloring or play in the swings or sing or do something you used to do as a child when you were freer and happier, and that will help you heal.
And therein lies the contradiction: she grants the possibility the reader might have been traumatized as a child, then suggests that reverting to childhood can help heal that trauma (see page 50). Her #2 step is to "investigate the source of the trauma" but if it occured earlier than active memory (she asserts earlier this can happen), how is one to do this?
Furthermore, asking someone to write in a journal about what you miss most about being a child when that childhood is exactly what you need to heal from doesn't seem helpful at all. What do I miss? I want to write, "nothing."
Which is how much help this book brought me, sorry to say.
Perhaps your results will be different.
Cher Hampton means well. At least I think so. It's not like she wrote this book for money (it was free), and I got the impression she believes in what she's written in "Healing Your Inner Child First."
I was with her through the first half of the book -- well, mostly. I highlighted several sentences in the first ten pages. Then I hit "Root Chakra" on page 10 and started to wonder what I was heading into. She writes that the "Root Chakra Existence Cycle" is seven years and "establishes the basis of who we are throughout our first seven years of life. As a result, our fundamental ideas and unconscious behaviors are formed."
Okay. So if I experienced trauma in those first seven years, it likely will affect me for the rest of my life if I don't address it. I get that. Then I got it again when she repeated this in a different way, and yet again when she went over it a third time.
Here's what I got from the book: if you've been traumatized (and who hasn't?), you need to let your inner child take over and do some coloring or play in the swings or sing or do something you used to do as a child when you were freer and happier, and that will help you heal.
And therein lies the contradiction: she grants the possibility the reader might have been traumatized as a child, then suggests that reverting to childhood can help heal that trauma (see page 50). Her #2 step is to "investigate the source of the trauma" but if it occured earlier than active memory (she asserts earlier this can happen), how is one to do this?
Furthermore, asking someone to write in a journal about what you miss most about being a child when that childhood is exactly what you need to heal from doesn't seem helpful at all. What do I miss? I want to write, "nothing."
Which is how much help this book brought me, sorry to say.
Perhaps your results will be different.
September 15, 2022
Whew! There's a *lot* of information in here. There's some that isn't my cup of tea (chakras?) but a lot more besides, so there's definitely something for everyone. It's a good background with lots of references and distilled information. I didn't have a good sense of "where to start", but there's definitely a great foundation of knowledge here.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
September 2, 2025
This book didn’t quite work for me, even though I’m someone who appreciates spiritual topics. While the intention behind it is clearly heartfelt, I found the structure a bit disjointed, and the shift toward chakras didn’t feel fully connected to the theme of childhood healing. It might resonate more with readers looking for a broader spiritual overview, but in the context of inner child work, it felt a little off-track.
January 21, 2023
Good Read
After reading this book I wasn't aware that I had struck trauma from my past. After researching on the web I came across this book and gave me the confidence to heal my inner wound and looking forward toward a successful career and relationship.
After reading this book I wasn't aware that I had struck trauma from my past. After researching on the web I came across this book and gave me the confidence to heal my inner wound and looking forward toward a successful career and relationship.
April 26, 2023
Very helpful!
Cher Hampton does an excellent job in demonstrating a kind approach to such a deeply important topic.
It's nice to realize we all did the best we could given the circumstances we were subjected to at such innocent ages.
Cher Hampton does an excellent job in demonstrating a kind approach to such a deeply important topic.
It's nice to realize we all did the best we could given the circumstances we were subjected to at such innocent ages.
November 17, 2023
Streamlined information for healing
A lot of great information about inner child work. I learned a great deal about myself. I recommend this to anyone, especially those struggling in life that cannot pinpoint what they have going on inside.
A lot of great information about inner child work. I learned a great deal about myself. I recommend this to anyone, especially those struggling in life that cannot pinpoint what they have going on inside.
May 19, 2024
I really couldn't connect with this book either it was too strong for me orelse i genuinely didn't want to connect or do excercise given in the book.
Please give a try but my opinion here is kinda sceptical and for time being I don't want to give it re try.
Please give a try but my opinion here is kinda sceptical and for time being I don't want to give it re try.
April 13, 2023
Taught me a few things about myself. Very comforting, hand-holding book. I do wish it taught more practices to help cope and it did become a little repetitive. Overall, the book was very nice.
July 17, 2023
This was a very helpful and informative book. I recommend it.
May 26, 2024
I tried to finish. . sigh* 😔 but I just couldn’t. I felt like the narrative was bossy.
July 2, 2024
I think this book gave a lot of background for understanding your inner child. I really like some of the advice in this.
July 31, 2024
"The wound is not my fault. But the healing is my responsibility."
This was for therapy
This was for therapy
November 25, 2024
Great book
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Luna Phoenix Camille
December 26, 2024
The book helped ground me & understand my reactivity. It's definitely worth a read
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