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

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Penguin Publishing Group, Jul 1, 1991 - Self-Help - 272 pages
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 the pain.
• Separate from it.
• Grieve the losses of each stage.
• Ritually release the pain and reclaim the joy of each inner child.

In the end, you will reap the rewards of the wisdom of your true self.

"This easy-to-follow six-step formula helps you contact true spirituality through ritual and imagery, while healing your inner children. The book is brilliant, and serves as a bridge between the psychological and the spiritual."--Laurel King, Author of Women of Power and coauthor of Living in the Light

"Cathryn Taylor takes the next step: for her, the inner child is a palpable and real force in life. Methodically she applies a healing formula for each stage of growth and development, offering each of us valuable help in completing the child’s unfinished business."--Jeremiah Abrams, Editor of Reclaiming the Inner Child

Contents

INTRODUCTION I
1
THE INFANT SELF
37
THE TODDLER SELF
70
THE YOUNG INNER CHILD
90
S THE GRADESCHOOL CHILD WITHIN
112
THE YOUNG TEEN WITHIN
133
THE ADOLESCENT WITHIN
154
THE YOUNG INNER ADULT
175
DEVELOPING ONGOING RELATIONSHIPS
205
ADDICTIONS RECOVERY AND YOUR CHILDREN
229
Glossary
243
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About the author (1991)

Cathryn L. Taylor, M.A., M.F.C.C., has worked for fifteen years as a therapist and teacher in all areas of recovery, including chemical dependency and eating disorders. She conducts workshops and has a private practice in the San Francisco Bay area.

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