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Buy itA 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.
| Publisher | Bantam |
| ISBN | 0553353896 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Author | John Bradshaw |
| EAN | 9780553353891 |
| Label | Bantam |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 158.1 |
| Studio | Bantam |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Title | Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child |
| Release Date | 1992-02-01 |
| Publication Date | 1992-02-01 |
| Manufacturer | Bantam |
Review by John L. Folmar, 2010-08-15
Three cheers for John Bradshaw! A thoroughly enjoyable, helpful, practical, fun and ultimately liberating book for anyone who has unresolved issues with their childhood and who has tried (and failed) to move onward and forward with their lives as an adult.
Bradshaw doesn't spend a lot of time dwelling on the circumstances that led to feelings of shame or grief from childhood trauma's, although he does a wonderful job of validating how those feelings came to be. Rather, he quickly delves into how to `heal" and reclaim the fun loving child present in all of us that became repressed and frozen dealing with painful events in childhood.
Bradshaw's reference to the inner child in the title of the book sounded corny and touchy feely at first but after a few pages I found the flavor of the book to be actually the opposite. Bradshaw writes from the heart over disappointments and heartache that he himself experienced as a child growing up due to his father's struggle with alcoholism.
The book is well written with plenty of supporting material, studies and references behind his theories and ideas about how to reclaim the childlike spirit that thrives inside all of us as adults and what actually makes life worth living. The exercises he uses are fun and enlightening and he reiterates over and over again that much of what we did not learn or develop as children was not our fault. However, he reasons and reassures that we, as adults, have the power to correct these deficits.
What is especially refreshing is his assertion that this is not easy work. Bradshaw makes no claims or promises but simply accompanies one along the path of developing, possibly for the first time, appropriate coping strategies and emotional skills for caring for one's self and interacting with the world. This essentially allows one to pick where they left off as a child and write a better ending for themselves.
It should be stated that this is not simply a self help book about how to be a better person or how to overcome some emotional obstacle. Homecoming is geared towards developing how to experience joy, wonder, awe, fun and creativeness in life as children so naturally do.
Give this book a shot if you or a love one are stuck emotionally and have found nothing else to work.
Review by Steven R Reissig, 2010-08-06
If you are dealing with things you feel you cant get past, like grief, sadness or hurt or pain from someone else, THIS BOOK IS A MUST. I did find one thing that helped, I bought a cheep tape recorder at wal-mart and taped the afformations on it, and did them 3-4 times a day. VERY quickly I found I was feeling so much better about life and how I was dealing with things. We ALL have stuff from your past, and this book will help you find your way. Special note - you need to have SOMEONE to talk to and support you when things from your past come out, for you can go very deep into it. But when you work through it, your life will be 10 times better. John Bradshaw tells you every step and how to do them. It is worth a million bucks!
Review by Ashley Mae Porter, 2010-03-21
Good book, especially for those that are reaccessing their past life to their future life.
Review 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.
Review 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.
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