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Loving-Kindness: Healing Your Inner Child

By Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward — 2020

Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward on how to give yourself the love and compassion you deserve. And send some of that love to the wounded child inside you. They need it.

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Healing the Wounds of the Past

The cynical backlash against the success of the personal growth movement is both frustrating and painful for John Bradshaw, the psychologist and author who coined the term “inner child” and popularised the phrase “dysfunctional family.”

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The Irish Times
1999
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John Bradshaw, Self-Help Evangelist Who Called to the ‘Inner Child,’ Dies at 82

Mr. Bradshaw found fame with books and television shows proposing that emotional and psychological damage experienced in childhood was the root of adult ills.

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William Grimes
2016
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6 Steps to Help Heal Your Inner Child

According to John Bradshaw, author of Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, the process of healing your wounded inner child is one of grief, and it involves these six steps (paraphrased from Bradshaw).

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Therese J. Borchard
2012
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The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma

I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.

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Junot Díaz
2021
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Fariha Róisín Turns Personal Trauma into Narratives of Cultural Resistance

Document takes you inside Róisín’s home as she talks beauty, recovery, and navigating cultural shame.

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Meetra Javed
2020
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Transformance—What Can Happen When Shame Lifts

Sheila Rubin writes about transformance, a term used to describe “the force in the psyche that’s moving towards growth and expansion and transformation,” and the idea that healing is “not just an outcome but a process that exists within each person that emerges in conditions of safety.”

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Sheila Rubin
2018
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How to Live Our Most Meaningful Lives with Compassion and Self-Love

In 1989, at one of the first international Buddhist teacher meetings, Western teachers brought up the enormous problem of unworthiness and self-criticism, shame and self-hatred that frequently they arise in Western students’ practice.

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Jack Kornfield
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Reaching Out for Compassion

At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.

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Tara Brach
2014
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Child’s Trauma