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Summary: This audio version is a great way to begin to heal!
Review: After listening to this audio series, I realized that I had suffered greatly as a child. This suffering was, in part, do to my parents' inability to be good models and their parents before them. This series helps you to learn how to end the cycle and progress as an individual. I needed the regression therapy (my term)and techniques on learning how to get in touch with those child-like emotions again. I highly recommend this to anyone who has feelings of inadequacy or unknown fear. John Bradshaw is amazing!!
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Summary: Giving my life back to me
Review: After reading this book I feel as though a ton of bricks have been lifted from my head. All the things I always wondered about I can now see, understand and face with dignity and appreciation. This book turns your fears into strengths and allows *you* to do the turning!I recommend this book to all who are interested in getting to know themselves and getting their lives back on track.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Excellent audio tape. However - beware if you have had trauma. I did the inner child work on my own, and was very raw afterwards. It brought up memories I did not know I had. You might want to do it with a therapist. It is very good for healing. I am an adopted person and I use the inner child work to help me heal from my pain over losing my mother at birth. It has also helped me to cope with abuse issues. I also highly recommend books by Alice Miller.
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Summary: Credit where it's due
Review: I'm giving credit here, but I'm not sure whether or not it's for Mr. B's writings, or his personal appearances. I've been privy to both. At any rate, he, along with Louise Hay, saved my life. Were it not for their books, their wonderful warmth and caring, and their testaments, I simply wouldn't be here. Both authors deal with the inner child and his/her healing. It's a subject that's not covered much, especially in books outside the "self help" catagories, but there are a few (think Conroy's Prince of Tides or McCrae's Bark of the Dogwood). At any rate, Homecoming is wonderful and if you read anything, read this and "You Can Heal your life" by Hay. God bless.
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Summary: This book is a must read!
Review: If you are tired of going around in circles with addictions, self conflicts and other things that have developed from your childhood.... this book is for you. John Bradshaw shows us how we have come to be in the place we are in at this stage of life. He shows how to stop the cycles of repeating the same negative things over and over. He shows how we all played a roll in the family and where we might have been in that roll. Why we are alcholics.. care takers... over achivers... or other addictions in life. He helps us to tune into that small self that still remains in us... even as adults. His technic of using the inner child to write with the non-perdominate hand is something unique in it's nature. He takes us from toddler stage thru to the self we are today. This book covers all kinds of things that have happened to many in life... like abandonment issues... children of alcholics and the roll each individual plays... the sexually abused... and many other issues that many of us have today. If you are wanting to stop the cycle and live a more productive and positive way? If you are willing to work at seeing how and why you came to be where you are now? Then this book is for you. It is of a greater benifit to have a counsler. Hoping this books helps all as much as it has helped me! Many wishes of campassion and happiness to all!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: If you have suffered from a difficult childhood, especially one which included an alcoholic, this book is a must read. Because he lived the life himself, John Bradshaw brings empathy to the task in buckets. The tests require honesty about yourself, but if you find that you fit the "wounded child" profile, this book will absolutely help you get out of the rut of recrimination that has dogged you most of your life. Perhaps the best part about his method is that it is relatively simple and you do it yourself. There are no expensive psychological or psychiatric tests, appointments, etc. I was so impressed that I bought the book for my brother and sister. And now, my sister and I are going to attend a Bradshaw lecture on a slightly different, but related, topic.
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Summary: This can be a life-changing book
Review: If you have suffered from a difficult childhood, especially one which included an alcoholic, this book is a must read. Because he lived the life himself, John Bradshaw brings empathy to the task in buckets. The tests require honesty about yourself, but if you find that you fit the "wounded child" profile, this book will absolutely help you get out of the rut of recrimination that has dogged you most of your life. Perhaps the best part about his method is that it is relatively simple and you do it yourself. There are no expensive psychological or psychiatric tests, appointments, etc. I was so impressed that I bought the book for my brother and sister. And now, my sister and I are going to attend a Bradshaw lecture on a slightly different, but related, topic.
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Summary: Liked this go, Your Magic Garden: Discover your Life Work
Review: If you liked this book Check out Your Magic Garden: A Guide to Discovering Your Life Work. Both books talk about the child within and how we can find our power and ourselves with our inner child. Your Magic Garden is an illustrated book for adults! It is about the difference between having a life and life having us. Check it out!
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Summary: It has worked for me
Review: It's been a good 8 or 9 years since I read "Homecoming" and did the inner child work. I followed Mr. Bradshaw's suggestion to work with a therapist, and although it might not have been my therapist's choice for me, we both agreed that the work was sound and the healings lasting. I could see how it might not work for everyone, because you have to be ready to see your wounded self and not just have pity on you. Parenting your inner child is hard work, because we are constantly tempted to have tantrums instead of moving beyond the stuff in our childhoods that makes us react instead of act.
I only did the meditations at the time I was going through the book, but occasionally through the years, I have read the things I wrote in my journal, and I know that I have embraced the wounded part of me. It worked. I found it excellent, and not difficult to follow. But you have to be ready to deal with yourself and your past. If you're not, then I suspect it's not yet time to read this book. If you are ready, this is a most excellent tool.
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Summary: Homecoming by John Bradshaw
Review: John Bradshaw's "Family", "Healing the Shame that Binds You" and "Homecoming" changed my life. The first showed me where I came from and how I got to be the way I was. It gave me understanding, and the knowledge that I wasn't crazy and hopeless. I was taught to be that way. The second book helped me to identify the specific ways it all happened, to remember it, and then it gave me hope that I could unlearn it all and be retrained. I could learn ways to change things to make things better. The third book gave me direction, and tools to correct my behaviors and dysfunctional behaviors, and the ability to change my life. To really heal, without fear. Now years later, I am happy and doing very well. I whole-heartedly recommend these three books to anyone that is having any relationship problems or childhood issues, any type of addiction or codependent issues, feelings of inadequacy, insecurity or loss of self esteem. In these books, there is knowledge that will heal you, there is hope to change, there is courage to gain and there is a better life. My gratitude to you, Mr. John Bradshaw! CE
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