In this powerful life-changing book, HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, John Bradshaw shows us how we can learn to nurture that sometimes needy inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. If our vulnerable child was hurt, abandoned, shamed, or neglected, that child's pain, grief, and anger live on within us. We first see the world though the eyes of a little child, and that 'inner child' remains with us throughout our lives, no matter how outwardly 'grown-up' and powerful we become. No one has ever brought them to a popular audience more effectively and inspiringly than John Bradshaw.'The healed inner child becomes a source of vitality and creativity, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living' John Bradshawĭo you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often 'lose it' in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but wonder if it's worth the struggle? Are you consumed at times by anxiety or depression? Coming home to your true self may help. Pioneering when introduced, these classic therapies are now being validated by new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience.

Homecoming includes a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including questionnaires, letter-writing to the inner child, guided meditations, and affirmations. Then, says Bradshaw, the healed inner child becomes a source of vitality, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living.

Through a step-by-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage, we can break away from destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. 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. If any of this sounds familiar, you may be experiencing the hidden but damaging effects of a painful childhood-carrying within you a 'wounded inner child' that is crying out for attention and healing. Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often 'lose it' in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it's worth the struggle? Or are you plagued by constant vague feelings of anxiety or depression?

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