ABSTRACT
First published in 1994. This text provides a step-by-step healing process for adults reared in dysfunctional families and who have unfinished business with their pasts. This process encourages individuals to tell the truth about abuse and neglect, embrace and feel the feelings, identify how present-day acting- out behaviour is related to inner dialogue, and apply the inner child method to adulthood issues.; Providing information on shame, co-dependency, abuse, neglect, birth order and boundaries, this workbook enables the individual to gain new understanding about their past and present. Using the activities described here, a person should first develop skills that help in healing childhood trauma, and consequently be given the means to address adulthood problems such as correcting self- defeating thought and behaviour patterns. The learning of self-nurturing, self-acceptance and health boundaries should then follow as a matter of course.; This text reintegrates the personality parts in a functional way through the use of exercises and visualisations, with the aim of enabling the individual to finish with the past and live successfully in the present. Examples of real-life inner child therapy assignments are also included.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |2 pages
Introduction
part I|38 pages
Overview of Inner Child Therapy
chapter Chapter 1|4 pages
The Process
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
The Self and Shame
chapter Chapter 3|12 pages
Child Development: Whats “Normal”
chapter Chapter 4|8 pages
Personality Development
part II|46 pages
Healing the Broken-Hearted Child
chapter Chapter 5|12 pages
Effects of Abuse and Neglect
chapter Chapter 6|20 pages
A Safe Place to Tell the Truth
chapter Chapter 7|12 pages
A Closer Look at Family of Origin
part III|58 pages
Parts' Reintegration