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

By Lucia Capacchione

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671701355
• ISBN13: 9780671701352
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Inner Child

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.

Terrific material to help recover that which was lost.

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.

Art Therapy, Inner Child, Internalized Parent...

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.

Wonderful for the layperson

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.