Healing the Child Within

Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all.

In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child within - that part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative, and fulfilled - launched the inner child movement. Healing the Child Within describes how the inner child is lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering it, we can heal the fear, confusion, and unhappiness of adult life.

Eighteen years and more than a million copies sold later, Healing the Child Within is a perennial selling classic in the field of psychology. And it is even more timely today than it was in 1987. Recent brain research, particularly on the effects of trauma on the brain of developing children, has supported Whitfield's intuitive understanding as a psychiatrist.

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Download the accompanying reference guide.©1987 Charles L. Whitfield (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

An excellent guide

Surprisingly still accurate for a book written in 1987. It's an excellent guide.

I love how he stresses the importance of not rushing ourselves through the process. It's so frequent that we get stuck in our stories, stuck in our emotions, and the people we love become tired of hearing about it. Even support groups do this. We need to respect our own timing for moving on (preferably without burdening everyone though - why I am a proponent of self talk).

Through this unconditional validation, we will eventually reach an epiphany. We have a choice in deciding how we feel. .... We can let go, and it's on us.

worth reading

this audiobook is something one needs to read repeatedly in order to absorb the information.

Child within me...

I love Charles Whitfield and all his work. I will use all of his helpful advice to move forward and cope.

great listen

so much truth. thank you and good audio works well sped up also. still relivent 20 years later

SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT!

some of you may find this book emotionally painful to listen to...but know that on the other side is everything your looking for ;) your loved, don't give up