Affirmations for the Inner Child

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Summary: This Book is a Soothing Recovery Tool of Mine.
Review: I do have other affirmation books, but I think this applies to any type of recovery. It is not easy to build a good self-esteem when one already suffers from low self-esteem. Often I feel that I don't deserve a relaxed life, but this book encourages me to have fun in life instead of putting myself into a misery. This book has been a good guide to a better life for me. Also, I like the size of this book. This pocket sized book is always with me.

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Summary: Not just for people in recovery
Review: I have given this book to many of my friends, including many of them that are not in any formal recovery program. They have all told me that these readings help them in a variety of ways. I own many daily reading books and this in the one I carry in the car. This is truely a book for healing the inner child in all of us.

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Summary: I found this book helpful, at one time in my life...
Review: This book was once a great blessing to me. It really helped me deal with many things I was going through, and it often seemed that the author had some uncanny ability to know what I had experienced in my childhood and then how to help me come to terms with life in a "dysfunctional" family.

But upon re-reading this book recently, I find that I do not like it. Perhaps it is just that I have now "out-grown" this book. What I notice is that by helping us come to terms with having been a part of a "dysfunctional" family, this book only reinforces the idea that we come from dysfunctional families. At the point at which I found this book helpful - my late teens - I felt this book was a blessing and I was very certain that I had come from a dysfunctional family. I was therefore grateful to the author for providing such great help and compassion on my road to recovery from a dysfunctional family. But today, I'm not so sure I would call my family dysfunctional. I now concur with what Marianne Williamson wrote in A RETURN TO LOVE, "I come from a dysfunctional family. But who doesn't? The whole world is dysfunctional."

In other words, this book seems to be based on the myth that there is such a thing as a "functional" family. I don't think there is such a thing.