Healing Your Inner Child: Re-Parenting Yourself for a More Secure & Loving Life

by Natasha Levinger

What if you could reach the most innocent part of yourself and treat that essential being with kindness? Author Natasha Levinger teaches how to locate this inner child, get to know them, and parent this most vulnerable part of yourself so that you can self-soothe even when the world around you is chaotic. By eliminating false personal narratives and creating a nurturing inner voice, you can heal past traumas and live in the present with understanding and grace. Levinger investigates crucial questions, such as: Levinger is the perfect guide on this journey, providing plenty of useful exercises, strategies, and journal prompts along the way.

Genres: Self Help, Psychology, Nonfiction, Mental Health

224 pages, Paperback

Published April 18, 2023

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. I like to gather things that work for me along the way and leave things that don't.

Enjoyed and would recommend for anyone who would like to reflect on themselves.

[Jeffing · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's some odd spiritual and chakra stuff, which I guess can help visualize some of the ideas, but there's a lot more actual scientific info that I found helpful.

[Alyssa Ellerbusch · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is helpful, presupposing you are already on board with the idea of chakras, spiritual and energetic healing, and mindfulness. It was definitely less of a scientific or neurological resource than I was hoping, but as I’m already on board with a lot of these spiritual and philosophical ideas, I found it to be helpful and very healing for me.

It was a good intro to parts work and IFS for people who need it explained in the most basic way or have not yet been exposed to this modality.

[Madison Kuznia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75! This took me a bit to get through, as with most nonfiction, but the writing style was approachable and there was some valuable information in here. Some parts felt a bit rushed/farfetched, but overall good!

[Nicole Perez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book, but be careful with some methods that are not evidenced based practices. Do your research

[Kimberly Tierney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even if you didn't have something traumatic happen in your childhood, there is likely an event or interaction that has caused a root pain that you have carried through your life. It could be a bully, someone having a bad day who spoke negatively towards you, or some other small interaction. Then there are those of us who have trauma from our childhoods: abuse, school shooting survivors, or losing a parent. Either way, there is healing to be done for the hurt child inside of us. The things that have wounded that inner child all converge on the same thing, regardless of cause; they all happened because an adult didn't, or couldn't, give us safety in a moment when it was needed.

I have been on a journey this year of being intentional about healing my nervous system. This book is just one tool being used on this journey, but it has been really valuable. I have been able to see new perspectives on my behaviors and actions, and how my childhood pain has shaped them. It has shown me to look to other parts of myself to find the problems and then the solutions.

If you are also on a journey of reclaiming your mental health and wellness in full, I recommend checking this one out to see if it might help you, too.

[Sofija · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very wholistic approach to understanding childhood trauma and how it can shape your adult life and behaviour. Some great practical methods and exercises in each chapter that can help you do some self-therapy. Overall would definitely recommend to anyone wanting to learn more about and improve their relationship with inner self.

[H A · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an okay book. There was a lot strategies for coping with your triggers from the author. I gave it a 3 star because it felt like the author still has unhealed trauma even after reading through the lines of the book. She talked a lot about her life which is fine because it's good to be relatable but these coping mechanisms will not be applied to my personal life.

[RiLynn Bergmann · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had some good insight on healing inner child and becoming a loving parent to the parts of yourself that need compassion. There was quite a bit of visualizing your aura and feeling it, that I didn’t necessarily like. I did get some useful information from this book though.

[erin🩷 · Rating 4 out of 5]

enjoyed this book and felt very validated and realized I actually do need to work on healing my inner child

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really only read this because it was something I'd not read before and the term inner Child is one I've heard but never knew what it meant. I like a lot of the points touched on here

[Maddie Pocklington · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some ideas in this book was hard for me to grasp but overall I really enjoyed the psychological side of this book

[Megan Shelton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was extremely insightful and eye-opening.

[Manda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was extremely insightful and eye-opening. I took my time and utilized the exercises in journal entries. They help significantly and I can’t wait to continue to heal using the things in this book.