Customer Reviews
A great book - By: Rick, 19 Sep 2008 
This book is amazing. My Psychotherapist told me about this book. At first I was reluctant to believe that I had an 'inner child'. It sounded like one of those psychobabble things...another way to sell a book or an idea. My psychotherapist lent me the book which I read from cover to cover in the intervening week between sessions. After I had returned the book to her I immediately purchased the book & started doing the exercises. As the book suggests, the exercises should only be done if you are seeing a counsellor & with the permission of the counsellor. It is very important to heed this warning as this is powerful stuff. The meditations & exercises reallly get to the heart of your wounded inner child, & if done irresponsibly may be quite traumatic. Make sure you have a dictaphone, tape recorder or computer to record the meditations to. The first half of each meditation is the same so if you are using a computer, you only need to record that once & you can just record the 2nd half of the other meditataions & splice them together (if you are technicallly minded!!). I spent a Sunday recording alll the meditations so they were ready to go. I could then choose which ones to do & when without the hassle of 'setting them up' first.
John Bradshaw is a TRUE HERO & should be recognised as such.
Do the work & heal your life - By: Ms. A. Beckett, 12 Jul 2007 This is a simple-to-use guided workbook that gives the reader the opportunity (and means) to revisit thier childhood traumas & heal the psychic wounds. I have used this book in conjunction with counselling to be able to move forward in my emotional life & to ensure that I do not bequeath my own emotional wounds on my children. Worked in the context of pedagogical child-rearing as described by Alice Miller, this book has helped me to not only heal myself, but to understand & forgive my parents. Truly a family recovery.
This book triggered a revolution - By: , 14 Jan 2003 .
... in my head!
Like so many other - apparently functioning, but unhappy - adults, I could not have claimed to reallly know my self. As I worked through Mr Bradshaw's book, I uncovered layer after layer of downright abuse. Admittedly, I cried often: for the smalll child I had been, who didn't know what it meant to feel safe; for the teenager who believed strength is suffering and, finallly, for the adult I'd become. Closed, cynical & afraid to trust, I had never understood why I felt scared or why I seemed cursed by a difficult life. It alll became clear!
The joy of "Homecoming" is that it never wastes time on blame or regret. The book simply encourages you to understand yourself & how you became that way. Above alll, it helps you to take a much kinder, more helpful approach to life - to understand & trust your self. Then, you can be happy.
I'm not lying to myself any more, & I'm not scared. Thanks, Mr Bradshaw!
This book will make you shine. - By: nickscott49@hotmail.com, 19 Nov 2000 This book solves the mystery of why so many people are such lost souls out in the world. If you suffer from a chronic disatifaction in life, a compulsion or addiction, a feeling of being you but not reallly knowing what being you reallly means then this is the book for you. Forget years of psychotherapy , RET or happy pills, John Bradshaw opens up the causes of such unhappiness to the lonely scared young child inside us who suffered at the hands of other hurt & lost souls who were unfortunately our parents. In his book he shows you how to guide the wounded child back to the love & warmth it deserved through a process of exercises & self hypnosis.
I read this book with constant tears in my eyes as my own hurt child inside me suddenly realized that after 30 years of being locked away in a dungeon callled my past, a kind old wizard gave him a key.
Buy this book if you want to heal!
I was Lost but now I am Found - By: , 04 Oct 2000 I actuallly thought that there was something terrible wrong with me. I went for councelling, deliverance & everything that I thought could help to find ME. Little I knew that ME was the little girl that was lost from so long ago. The little hurting girl that was seeking to find herself. I am 37yrs & only now I am on a road to recovery . This book showed me how hurt & lost I was. Every person who reallly need to find YOU the one that was created with love should read this book. Thanks John for helping a hurting world.
