Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self

I got this recommended by a friend who had been on a healing week for abused children in Australia. This book reinforces what I learnt on that week. I recommend it to anyone who is wanting and needing help to overcome inner child issues.

I've done a lot of Inner Child work and this ranks among the best of the literature I've used. Highly recommended to anyone. We ALL have some kind of inner child wounding...even if we were "overloved!".... Great exercises. A useful tool for healing.

This book has Art Therapy exercises and dialog exercises with your inner child (who can be playful, vulnerable, angry, etc). For instance you might be instructed to ask your inner child a question by writing it with your dominant hand. Then you answer the question with your nondominant hand (e.g. for many of us our left hand that we don't usually write with). There are also exercises that involve your internalized Parent (nuruturing, protective, critical, etc.)The exercises seem to be a blend of Art Therapy, Transactional Analysis and Gestault Experiments. As such the exercises can be somewhat risky since they bring up intense feelings. I wouldn't use some of these except under a therapist's supervision. However, this book seem VERY useful for adding to the tools of a practicing therapist.

If you are trying to find out where to begin your search for your inner child this is a good place to start. There are a number of excercises written in plain english that you can do alone, or share with your therapist.