Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self [Paperback]

The Inner Child lives within all of us, it's the part of us that feels emotions and is playful, intuitive, and creative. Usually hidden under our grown-up personas, the Inner Child holds the key to intimacy in relationships, physical and emotional well-being, recovery from addictions, and the creativity and wisdom of our inner selves.

Recovery of Your Inner Childis the only book that shows you how to have afirsthand experienceof your Inner Child—actually feeling its emotions and recapturing its sense of wonder—by writing and drawing with your non-dominant hand. Expanding on the highly acclaimed technique introduced inThe Power of Your Other Hand,here Dr. Capacchione shares scores of hands-on activities that will help you to embrace your Vulnerable Child and your Angry Child, find the Nurturing Parent within, and finally discover the Creative and Magical Child that can heal your life.Known for her discovery of the healing power of writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand, Lucia Capacchione is an art therapist with a PhD in psychology, serves as a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering, and is nationally recognized for her workshops in recovery and codependence. Her work has been highly praised by such leaders in the healthcare field as Dr. Bernie Siegel, Norman Cousins, Joan Borysenko and Dr. Gerald Jampolsky. She has written six other books including The Power of Your Other Hand, The Picture of Health, and The Creative Journal.CHAPTER ONE

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

Inside every adult, there is a child crying, Let me out.

Who is this child living within? Why is it trapped inside? What does it have to offer? How can it be liberated? You will answer these questions for yourself as you do this book. I saydorather thanreadbecause this is a hands-on approach. Through a combination of words, pictures, and actilý