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The Best Way to Get Started with John Bradshaw

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  others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and

creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

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John Bradshaw is best known for his book, Homecoming: Reclaiming and
Championing Your Inner Child, and the PBS special of the same title. These are
the places to the get started. If you don’t have access to the PBS special, start with
the book. Bradshaw believes that we all have an “inner child,” and for many of us,
it was during our childhood from living in a dysfunctional
family rs a guide to understanding and mourning
our wounded inner child.

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kshops to help put readers in touch with painful

hildhood memories and experiences. He believes that only after confronting and

damaged or wounded

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The book, his therapy, and his programs are about healing yourself. He d
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re-experiencing these past hurts can we break the family cycle of dysfunction and
move ahead with our lives.

Bradshaw uses practical techniques, case histories, and questionnaires to
trate how your wounded inner child may be causing you pain. You’ll learn
gradually and safely go back to reclaim and nurture that inner child—and
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ily roles and rules.

• Adopt new rules allowing pleasure and honest self-expression.

icult relationships.

ur innermost purpose and desires...and find new joy and

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ra y help yourself grow up again. Homecoming shows you how to:

• Validate your inner child through meditations and affirmations.


• Give your child permission to break destructive fam


• Deal with anger and diff


• Pay attention to yo
  energy in living.