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Inner Child



Our “inner child” is how we describe the part of us that celebrates awe, wonder, and playfulness in a culture where play and enjoyment of simple pleasures are looked down on in adults. Developing the concept of the inner child allows us to more healthily take care of all our human needs, emotions, and desires in a more socially acceptable way.

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John Bradshaw - Oprah - Childhood Wounds Seminar - Pt2a

The next segment from some of my work on Oprah.

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Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for.

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6 Steps to Help Heal Your Inner Child

According to John Bradshaw, author of Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, the process of healing your wounded inner child is one of grief, and it involves these six steps (paraphrased from Bradshaw).

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FindCenterI don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.

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John Bradshaw - Oprah - Childhood Wounds Seminar - Pt3

Here is the final segment from my Childhood Wounds Seminar on Oprah

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Taming Your Outer Child: Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment

Chances are, you’ve already had run-ins with your Outer Child—the self-sabotaging, bungling, and impulsive part of your personality. This misguided, hidden nemesis blows your diet, overspends, and ruins your love life.

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Loving-Kindness: Healing Your Inner Child

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give yourself the love and compassion you deserve. And send some of that love to the wounded child inside you. They need it.

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FindCenterWhat people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

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Embrace Your Inner Child | Jack Canfield

Your inner child is the part of you that was formed by the experiences you had as a child which has a powerful influence on how you show up in the world as an adult. That’s why it’s important to make peace with your inner child and overcome the blocks that have been holding you back.

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Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published.

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