Understanding Your Inner Child and Overcoming Addiction: A Recovery Manual and Workbook [Paperback]

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Inner Child Model , a trauma-based approach to the treatment of various addictions including alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex, spending, smoking, etc.

Insightful, compassionate and well written. Should help to ease an often unrecognized source of much distress.

Frederick Toates, professor, author of How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge

1. Pathway to Addiction  2. Understanding Your Inner Child  3. The 11 Inner Children  4. The Bored Child  5. The Unaffirmed Child  6. The Unnoticed Child  7. The Emotionally Voided Child  8. The Need for Control Child  9. The Entitled-Spiteful Child  10. The Inferior-Weak Child  11. The Stressed Child  12. The Early Sexually Stimulated/Abused Child  13. The Spiritually Wounded Child  14. The Enmeshed Child  15. How to Effectively Manage Your Inner Child

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Inner Child Model for treating Addictive Behaviors, a trauma-based approach to the treatment of various addictions including alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex, spending, smoking, etc.

Research indicates the onset of addiction originates in childhood trauma, inability to process emotional discomfort, and attachment disorders. This book addresses each of these issues to assist individuals in overcoming the drivers of addictive behaviors. But more importantly, provides solutions to help those who struggle to learn to manage their addiction. It contains numerous case studies in which readers will see themselves and their stories throughout the pages and assists readers in generating al“#