Product Description

This book is designed as a gentle, step-by-step guide for re-parenting the inner child during the first seven stages of life: as an infant, a toddler, a young child, a grade school child, a young teen, a young adolescent, and a young adult. Using a wide range of tools to do this inner work, the reader is led to explore the issues of grief, shame, and loss at each of the seven stages.

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Product Details

Publisher	Tarcher
ISBN	087477635X
Features	ISBN13: 9780874776355 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Format	Paperback
Author	Cathryn L. Taylor
EAN	9780874776355
Label	Tarcher
Edition	1st
Dewey Decimal Number	158.1
Studio	Tarcher
Number Of Pages	272
Title	The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away
Publication Date	1991-07-01
Manufacturer	Tarcher

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Customer Reviews

Not that good

Review by Anonymous, 2010-08-10

I found this book difficult, too time consuming and too much effort. I have a life to lead and I kinda read at what point the author saying in the book that it would take more or less a life time to get through this book and I remember thinking that why must that be so to heal the inner child within, I just found it too stressful and useless when it came to dealing with the problems of inner child work.

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Thorough and compassionate

Review by MP Wolfe-Emery, 2006-07-13

I really enjoyed this book, I found it thorough and empathic. The reader is lead through the many stages of childhood with compassion and given helpful exercises to overcome issues and obstacles present at each stage. The ability to understand the child is well presented by the author. As with psychotherapy generally it is more helpful to work with a therapist, this book is a great beginner or would work well alongside psychotherapy sessions.

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The Inner Child Workbook

Review by Dr. L. Hennigen, 2006-03-02

I did not find this book to be a helpful resource for my clients who have had difficult or painful childhood experiences. In many cases the exercises in this book require a greater degree of affect tolerance than the client has at her disposal. The consequence for the reader using this strictly as a self-help book,easily could be emotional overwhelm, and reinforcement of poor self-esteem as the reader continues to wonder what is wrong with her; this time because she cannot accomplish the tasks outlined in this workbook.

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RELEASE THE ENERGIES THAT HOLD YOU IN LIMBO

Review by Red Cardinal, 2002-08-28

There's a difference of talking of what your traumas (no matter how significant)are, and actually releasing the feelings and energies that accompany them. If you're really ready to get your life going and become a whole person, this book will do it. Once you've looked at the inner feelings and dealt with them, you're on your way to whatever you want of yourself. Talk about opening doors. You're worth it.

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This book is a classic in its field!

Review by Hal-Zina Bennett, Author-Writing Coach, 2001-05-16

After many other books on inner child work have come and gone, I keep coming back to this one. The author has given what is arguably the most complete map of the inner child work that has ever been written. To have instructions like this, that take us gently into our own inner mythology is a rare gift. If God/Goddess had commissioned an instruction manual for how to navigate these inner territories, it would have been this one. Come to think of it, maybe that's what happened! For anyone interested in doing really solid inner child work, this book is one they must read and DO! There's the potential for so much healing, and ultimately inner peace in this book!

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