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Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

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A guide to understanding and mourning the damage done to the inner child recreates the transformative experiences of the author's popular inner child workshops. 250,000 first printing.

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Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing your Inner Child

Reviewed by Delar Singh, 2010-03-02

Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing your Inner Child

In this book Bradshaw (1992) who had PBS television series based on the major ideas of this book puts forth the theory of a "Wounded Inner Child". He hypothesizes that most of our interpersonal issues emerge and sustain because our inner child is wounded . Further, each one of us has this inner child wounded to some extent and each family is dysfunctional to a certain point.

The author might be very right but I tend to disagree with this theory of inner child. The book contains exercises that you can take to see at what level of development your inner child got wounded and then ideas to put into practice for the healing of your inner child. The book might interest you if you have plenty of time on your hand.

Loved this Book

Reviewed by Susan M. Johnson, 2010-01-21

Once you start reading this book you can not put it down. Great self-help book with lots of homework to do. If you are willing to take the time you will find and champion your inner child within you.

So far, very good

Reviewed by Mary Hatch, 2009-09-17

I'm only starting the third chapter and feel like this book will help me learn how to heal myself of the scars of an abusive childhood by taking on the role of being a good parent to myself. Who knows, maybe life can be good afterall!

John's is go-to stuff

Reviewed by Marla Bodi, 2009-09-14

John Bradshaw was hugely popular and seemingly ubiquitous in the late 80s/early 90s and he's still going pretty strong. That's for good reason: The guy was a "mess" and he is brilliant, funny, curious, strong, down-to-earth, and he's been through a lot of 'hard life' himself. He knows from whence he speaks, and his books (and workshops) are amazingly helpful to what I would imagine is a great majority of the people who read his books and attend his workshops. He doesn't preach, he doesn't pull superiority, and he doesn't (duh!) use guilt or shame to get his info across. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's dealing with ...life. Something in it will definitely ring a bell ...maybe a lot. If you need some help with dysfunctions of many sorts, John's a go-to guy. Many many seeming conundrums have been demystified by his material/workshops. Give him a try --he can help.

This book should come with a health warning

Reviewed by vincent ryan, 2009-04-13

I was pointed in the direction of this book and I admit I really worked with it. I gave it a real shot, doing the many exercises. I found after a while I was getting re-traumatised by the bad old childhood memories Bradshaw recommends you seep yourself in. Soon I was toxic with emotional pain. It wasn't pleasant at all. And it had consequences in my private life. Maybe this book works for some people, but I disagree now with the whole you-need-to-re-experience-your-trauma-to-heal-yourself approach to therapy, having had some first hand time with it. (I think it's called "Original Pain Work" by Bradshaw). The idea in some psychotherapies that if there is no pain there is no gain is wrong and unnecessary, I believe. There are better ways to heal. Psychologists are now learning that the approach of re-experiencing trauma to heal it is quite risky, it can make trauma worse. There are some good ideas in Bradshaw's book, but this central idea undermines the whole for me. Some day Bradshaw's pain-based therapy will be consigned, along with Primal Scream Therapy and the like, to the dustbin. In the meantime it is buyer beware I'm afraid. A recipe for retraumatization, if you are not careful. Not recommended. There's better approaches out there.