The Inner Child Workbook: What to Do with Your Past When It Just Won't Go Away

by Cathryn L. Taylor

Book Overview

Recovery therapist Cathryn Taylor offers a step-by-step guide to reparenting the children within and healing their shame, anger, and feelings of abandonment. Using written and verbal exercises, guided imagery, journaling, drawing, mirror work, and rituals, you can change your experience of the past.

For each of the seven stages of childhood, you will follow six steps:
- Identify your pain.
- Research its childhood roots.
- Re-experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087477635X
• ISBN13: 9780874776355
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Tarcherperigee
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Thorough and compassionate

I really enjoyed this book, I found it thorough and empathic. The reader is lead through the many stages of childhood with compassion and given helpful exercises to overcome issues and obstacles present at each stage. The ability to understand the child is well presented by the author. As with psychotherapy generally it is more helpful to work with a therapist, this book is a great beginner or would work well alongside psychotherapy sessions.

RELEASE THE ENERGIES THAT HOLD YOU IN LIMBO

There's a difference of talking of what your traumas (no matter how significant)are, and actually releasing the feelings and energies that accompany them. If you're really ready to get your life going and become a whole person, this book will do it. Once you've looked at the inner feelings and dealt with them, you're on your way to whatever you want of yourself. Talk about opening doors. You're worth it.

This book is a classic in its field!

After many other books on inner child work have come and gone, I keep coming back to this one. The author has given what is arguably the most complete map of the inner child work that has ever been written. To have instructions like this, that take us gently into our own inner mythology is a rare gift. If God/Goddess had commissioned an instruction manual for how to navigate these inner territories, it would have been this one. Come to think of it, maybe that's what happened! For anyone interested in doing really solid inner child work, this book is one they must read and DO! There's the potential for so much healing, and ultimately inner peace in this book!

a very rewarding book

This is a thorough book. You must be willing to recover very badly to start this journey, because it takes a lot of courage to explore yourself this way. It is written in a friendly, positive style. The writer seems to know exactely what she is talking about. I learned so much about myself from this book!

EXCELLANT, MY LIFE HAS CHANGED.

THIS BOOK HAS HELPED ME UNDERSTAND MY INNER CHILD AS WELL AS ASSITED ME IN MY HEALING. ANYONE THAT HAS SUFFERED ANY TYPE OF ABUSE THIS BOOK IS A SURE WINNER IN MENDING THE PAST.