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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.