Recovery of Your Inner Child

Zusatztext Louise Hay author of You Can Heal Your Life Healing is making ourselves whole. Healing our Inner Child is a major part of our recovery. Lucia Capacchione is a master at gently guiding you through this process. Love yourself enough to recover from the past. Informationen zum Autor Known for her discovery of the healing power of writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand, Lucia Capacchione is an art therapist with a PhD in psychology, serves as a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering, and is nationally recognized for her workshops in recovery and codependence. Her work has been highly praised by such leaders in the healthcare field as Dr. Bernie Siegel, Norman Cousins, Joan Borysenko and Dr. Gerald Jampolsky. She has written six other books including The Power of Your Other Hand, The Picture of Health, and The Creative Journal. Klappentext Recovery of Your Inner Child is the only book that shows how to have a firsthand experience with the Inner Child--actually feeling its emotions and recapturing its dominant hand. Expanding on the technique she introduced in The Power of Your Other Hand, Dr. Capacchione shares scores of hands-on activities that will help readers to re-parent their vulnerable Inner Child and heal their lives. CHAPTER ONE "A Little Child Shall Lead Them" Inside every adult, there is a child crying, "Let me out." Who is this child living within? Why is it trapped inside? What does it have to offer? How can it be liberated? You will answer these questions for yourself as you do this book. I say do rather than read because this is a hands-on approach. Through a combination of words, pictures, and activities you will be guided in discovering, nurturing, and protecting your own Inner Child. My goal is to help you love your Inner Child and invite it to be a part of your life. The concept of the Inner Child is not new. It actually has roots in ancient mythology and fairy tales. Virtually all religions have told stories of the child who becomes a savior or leader. The child is usually orphaned, abandoned, or its life is threatened. Moses was found abandoned in the bull rushes. Jesus was born in the humblest setting because "there was no room at the inn." His life was threatened by King Herod's slaughter of the infants. Similarly, Krishna's birth was accompanied by great danger. King Kansa had been told that the man who would eventually kill him was about to be born, so he consequently decreed that all newborn males be slain. In Greek mythology the child Zeus was in danger of being devoured by his father Chronos. And as the father of Dionysius, Zeus was absent when his son was being torn to pieces by the Titans. The twins in Roman mythological lore, Romulus and Remus, were abandoned and set adrift on the river Tiber. European fairy tales also abound with child heroes who are threatened by ogres and demons: Hansel and Gretel had their witch, Cinderella had her wicked step-mother and nasty step-sisters, Jack had his giant, and Little Red Riding Hood had the wolf. In this century, psychologist C. G. Jung and mythologist Joseph Campbell have shown us that these myths and legends have widespread appeal because they illustrate universal human experiences. For instance, all human beings have one thing in common: we all start out as vulnerable, dependent infants. Therefore, we can all resonate with the helpless, misunderstood, and abused children in these stories. Who has not experienced some kind of physical or emotional mistreatment in childhood? The very nature of childhood leaves the infant or youngster open to harm. Insensitive or violent adults can certainly appear as giants, witches, and ogres in the eyes of a child. That is why the classic fairy tales hold our rapt attention time and time again, whether they are told from memory, read from a picture book, or portrayed on the scre...

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Known for her discovery of the healing power of writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand, Lucia Capacchione is an art therapist with a PhD in psychology, serves as a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering, and is nationally recognized for her workshops in recovery and codependence. Her work has been highly praised by such leaders in the healthcare field as Dr. Bernie Siegel, Norman Cousins, Joan Borysenko and Dr. Gerald Jampolsky. She has written six other books including The Power of Your Other Hand, The Picture of Health, and The Creative Journal.

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Recovery of Your Inner Child is the only book that shows how to have a firsthand experience with the Inner Child--actually feeling its emotions and recapturing its dominant hand. Expanding on the technique she introduced in The Power of Your Other Hand, Dr. Capacchione shares scores of hands-on activities that will help readers to re-parent their vulnerable Inner Child and heal their lives.

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The 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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction by Charles L. Whitfield

Finding My Inner Child

PART I: DISCOVERING YOUR INNER CHILD

ONE: "A Little Child Shall Lead Them"

TWO: Meeting Your Inner Child

THREE: Embracing Your Vulnerable Child

FOUR: Accepting Your Angry Child

PART II: EXPLORING YOUR INNER PARENT

FIVE: Finding the Nurturing Parent Within

SIX: Invoking the Protective Parent

SEVEN: Encountering Your Critical Parent

EIGHT: Healing the Wounds of Childhood

PART III: GIVING BIRTH TO THE MAGICAL CHILD

NINE: Letting Your Child Out to Play

TEN: Celebrating Your Creative Child

ELEVEN: Discovering Your Spiritual Child

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