Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner SelfThe Inner Child lives within all of us, it's the part of us that feels emotions and is playful, intuitive, and creative. Usually hidden under our grown-up personas, the Inner Child holds the key to intimacy in relationships, physical and emotional well-being, recovery from addictions, and the creativity and wisdom of our inner selves. Recovery of Your Inner Child is the only book that shows you how to have a firsthand experience of your Inner Child—actually feeling its emotions and recapturing its sense of wonder—by writing and drawing with your non-dominant hand. Expanding on the highly acclaimed technique introduced in The Power of Your Other Hand, here Dr. Capacchione shares scores of hands-on activities that will help you to embrace your Vulnerable Child and your Angry Child, find the Nurturing Parent within, and finally discover the Creative and Magical Child that can heal your life. |
Contents
Finding My Inner Child | 13 |
A Little Child Shall Lead Them | 19 |
Meeting Your Inner Child | 47 |
Embracing Your Vulnerable Child | 69 |
Accepting Your Angry Child | 91 |
Finding the Nurturing Parent Within | 117 |
Invoking the Protective Parent | 145 |
Encountering Your Critical Parent | 167 |
Healing the Wounds of Childhood | 183 |
Letting Your Child Out to Play | 211 |
Celebrating Your Creative Child | 237 |
Discovering Your Spiritual Child | 267 |
Bibliography | 286 |
Common terms and phrases
abandoned activities Adult anger Angry Child art therapy artist ask your Inner aware baby behavior body brain Capacchione chapter child abuse Child Archetype Child write childhood clay co-dependence Corita crayons Creative Child Critical Parent cry cry cry dance dominant hand draw a picture drawing and dialogue dream emotional exercise experience express feel safe felt pens friends Geri grown-up Hal Stone happened happy Harold and Maude healthy heart Higher Power hurt Inner Brat Inner Child workshop Inner Critical Inner Parent journal kids let your Inner lives look Magical Child mother never nurture and protect Nurturing Parent pain paint Paper and felt person physical play Playful Child Protective Parent re-parenting relationship responsibility role-play scared Spiritual Child sub-personality talk tell therapist therapy things Transactional Analysis Velveteen Rabbit Voice Dialogue Vulnerable Child woman written dialogues