Heal Your Inner Wounds: How to Transform Deep Emotional Pain into Freedom & Joy

by Abby Wynne

Free your Body, Mind, and Soul from Emotional Trauma and Pain

You've become an expert at surviving the ups and downs of life, but now is the time to start feeling worthy of the good life you dream about. This inspiring book features unique methods of visualization and shamanic psychotherapy for deep, transformational healing in a step-by-step format that anyone can use.

Heal Your Inner Wounds guides you through each stage of life--from childhood to adulthood--and shows you how to work through and release the pain and resentment that may be lingering. Whether it's caused by relationship trouble, family problems, or self-esteem issues, Abby Wynne teaches you how to let go of negativity from the past so you can have an amazing future.

Genres: Psychology

336 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2019

About the author

Abby Wynne is one of the world’s leading lights in the field of Shamanism, Psychotherapy and Energy Healing. She is based in Ireland and is a bestselling author for Hay House, Gill Books and Llwewllyn Worldwide. She has published an anthology of poetry, short stories and prayers called "Planting the Seeds", and even a colouring book "Spiritual Colouring Affirmations." Her newest books, Awakening and Transformation, are part of an epic story in the genre of magical realism. They are the first two books of a trilogy, and the final part, Expansion, will be published in 2023.

Abby's powerful core teachings work towards empowering you to do your inner work with strength and courage, whilst creating a structure and foundation to guide you. Abby also offers you many ways to feel supported while you are on your path of healing and empowerment, including downloadable healing audio files, healing jewellery and one to one sessions.

You can find Abby via her websites www.abby-wynne.com

Reviews

[Annette · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of words are missing letters at the beginning or in the middle. At some point it starts hindering on the message you're trying to read.

The message is concentrated on loving yourself, being able to say no, when you say yes out of politeness, to be truthful to yourself, to do what makes you happy.

Personally, I didn’t find this book beneficial for myself.

[Karim Angel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just finished reading this book, this was the complete work I was looking for. I feel really grateful.

I can see myself as beautiful now. I couldn't before as I didn't accepted my dark side. The chapter about my dark side was the one most healing for me. I realized I didn’t accept that part of me, « No I’m not a demon » kinda stuff. Letting my inner dark side wreck the place, be a pervert, a slut, be violent, needy, loud, smash people’s face, destroy everything… while observing it compassionately, was the most liberating experience for me. My dark side is a part of me that needs love too.

I now say to other people that they’re beautiful, and they tell me that I’m beautiful. The best compliment I ever received is : « You are beautiful. Your energy is beautiful too » !! I was so moved!

The chapter about my inner teenager was as well one of the most healing for me. I didn't know about my inner teenager. So I worked so far with my inner 15-years old. He came out to me as gay, he was so angry! We had such a deep, moving conversation. He cried a lot and I was there for him and listen to him. (I only came out to my parents when I was 27 and it was so difficult and I had a lot of fears of them not liking me anymore, so I'm glad my inner teenager came out at 15! I told him all the things I wished my parents would have told me, like : "I love you no matter what" and "There is nothing you can do that will make me stop loving you". I have tears in my eyes when I write this)

I loved the divine feminine chapter : I realized I was criticizing others a lot, because I felt I should mother them!! (I'm a guy). All the guys at work throwing their feelings sometimes in the room, I needed to tell them to take care of their feelings. No. I don't need to do that anymore. I feel more safe and boundaried now thanks to that healing chapter. I'm looking forward to working on the "It is safe to relax" exercice.

I'm a man so in the divine masculine chapter I realized that I created in my mind this perfect man that I "should" be, but I could never live up to him, and that made me feel unhappy as I always compared myself a lot to that "perfect" man. When I let go of that and just focused on being the best me that I can be in the moment, that released a great deal of stress for me. Thank you!

The inner child work I was already familiar about. I loved the exercice about working on my ability to say no! I can say no more easily and more lovingly now. Still working on it.

In the young adult chapter, I really loved the "heal your broken heart" exercice. I feel safer to go experience deeper feelings in relationships now that I know I can heal my heart anytime.

I give a big thank you for the author's healing work, I've been joining some of her healing sessions and used her recordings on her website.
I can empower myself now. I took my power back from people and things (which I learned in her other book "How to Be Well").
I keep my energy beautiful. This is all I ever wanted. I can go shine my light brighter now.

Blessings!

[Lea Bowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have mixed feelings about this book. The concept is a familiar one with a 'spiritual' twist and perhaps it's because I've been in group therapy for a while now that none of it seemed very groundbreaking or new.

There is encouragement of journaling (including sample questions to write about) that can help you figure things out and she gives description of what 'inner child' means which I thought was nice simply because that always feels like buzz words to me as opposed to something tangible and real. She goes on to have chapters on your 'inner teen', 'inner young adult', 'inner woman' ect ect. They have have exercises and in addition there's a list of 'mantras' you can say to remind yourself to forgive yourself for past mistakes, to be kind to yourself, you're not responsible for other's actions, ect, ect.

In the introduction there's mention of the theory that emotional trauma can affect your health. (Her exact words were something about how emotions will wrap themselves around organs and affect how they operate within your body.) This is a concept that held interest for me as I do think our emotional being will affect our physical being. Do I believe it to the extent mentioned in this book? Not sure but there are some interesting exercises to work on it.

There's some meditations (some of which remind me of the various mindful meditations that can be found on any mediation app - body scan, breathing exercises, etc) to help you envision your inner self to bring awareness to inner trauma in order to heal it.

If this all sounds too 'woo woo' to you it probably is. For me I thought it had some good information about journaling and how to utilize it to help one deal with past trauma. The mediations were interesting and I think if I was brand new to all of this I would have gotten more out of it!

One note: There are a LOT of spelling and grammar errors in this advance copy. Hopefully by the time it's actually published the publisher will have edited it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy!

[Lina Masrina · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author has beautifully guide the readers step by step to heal themselves like peeling onion's layers, one at a time. I often complete a book in hours or days but this book made me savour its chapters slowly and taking time out to do the healing exercises out of love for myself. I grew to like myself more and started falling in love in me. I began to appreciate people better, not those who wanted to own me but those willing to fly with me to soar higher, work to be better versions of ourselves and be happier in the smallest things.Truly grateful for this book.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I generally like the idea of the book, spiritual healing is something we could all really learn and make time to do. The cover is stunning however I really struggled with the book due to many spelling errors. I hope this will be fixed before publication to make the book perfect.

I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Netgalley and the author for allowing me to read this book.

[Bless]

Life is full of shit

[Jonesy.Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book focuses on exercises, journaling, and mediation to help us heal our inner child and inner teen. These methods have been well documented for their ability to help those struggling with depression, anxiety, social disorders, just to name a few. I think sometimes it can be hard to take something so simple as journaling seriously, but it has been proven that the act of touching pen to paper and writing our thoughts out is exponentially more beneficial than just contemplating or thinking things out in our head. Highly recommended!

[Cherry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book and the questions the author has provided to work through, and lots of journaling exercises. I also like the way it also includes inner teenager, young adult, divine feminine and divine masculine, as well as darkness and light. I would like to see an audiobook produced to have a recorded version of the meditations. I recommend this for someone who is new to inner child healing work.
Thanks to NetGalley for the review copy. The opinions expressed are my own.