"Recovery of Your Inner Child"
A Complete Course in Re-Parenting the Self
by Lucia Capacchione Ph.D, A.T.R., R.E.A.T.
If you follow this program from beginning
to end, you will be able to heal your relationship
with yourself and with others. And finally feel good about yourself.
This book is used as a textbook in many Expressive Art Therapy
schools and is a Godsend to many people
Many people go thru life trying to find the
Perfect Parent they didn't have in childhood.
This places impossible pressure on others
and dooms the person to disappointment and
can be a cruel form of abuse.
Recovery of Your Inner Child is about finding
the parent WITHIN that is self nurturing,
a healthy protector, and a direct contact
with our Higher Power - THE Ultimate Parent
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.
Those who have raised or educated children
with awareness know that the creative arts
are the natural language of the child. Given
a healthy environment and the guidance of
nurturing adults, children spontaneously
express themselves through the arts.
No one
has to tell young children that creative
expression is fun, and that it makes you
feel good about yourself and the world. Pre-schoolers
and kindergartners draw and paint, play with
clay, build and construct, act, dance and
sing with great enthusiasm. they do not have
to be coaxed or instructed.
When I was training teachers, my work included
observing young children in classrooms throughout
the United States, from inner-city ghettos
to rural farm areas. These were children
of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds.
No matter where these children were or what
they looked like, they all had one thing
in common: the language of art... this is no
coincidence.
Drawing comes before writing in a child's
development. In fact, art therapy is used
with children who cannot verbalize their
feelings. What cannot be spoken can often
be expressed more safely in art. And even
when a child is articulate, sometimes words
are not enough.
Who can translate into words
the precise meaning of a bold, black scribble?
Watching a child release bottled-up rage
or fear with crayons or clay is a profoundly
moving experience.
It is no accident, then that the Inner Child
also expresses its feelings and needs more
easily through art. In my workshops drawing
has been one of the most direct and enjoyable
ways of reaching the Inner Child. Drawing
gets people out of their rational, analytical,
adult minds and immerses them in the Child
state.
We know that drawing comes predominately
from the right hemisphere of the brain. This
is the side that seems to specialize in visual/spatial
perception, as well as emotional and intuitive
expression. What we often forget is that
young children, by their very nature, are
predominantly right-brained. That's why scribbling
and drawing are so natural for them.
However, your enjoyment of right-brained,
multi-sensory activity gets shut down through
restrictive parenting and a left-brain school
system that places an inordinate emphasis
on verbal logic and memorization.
Recovery of Your Inner Child is the only book that shows you how to have
a firsthand experience of your Inner Child - actually feeling its
emotions and recapturing its sense of wonder.
"Healing is making ourselves whole.
Healing our Inner Child is a major part of
our recovery. Lucia Capacchione is a master
at gently guiding you through this process.
Love yourself enough to recover from the
past."
-- Louise Hay, Author of You Can Heal Your
Life
This highly acclaimed bestseller guides you
in a firsthand experience of your Inner Child,
your emotional, playful, creative and spiritual
self. Right brain journal and art activities,
include work with the non-dominant hand. Dr. Capacchione presents her ground-breaking
approach to reparenting the self. Readers
explore all aspects of the Child Self as
well as the Inner Parent (the nurturing and
protective as well as the critical parent).
Endorsed by experts: Charles Whitfield M.D.,
Melody Beattie and Louise Hay, this book
has become a classic in the field of Inner
Child healing. It is being used in treatment
centers worldwide, especially with survivors
of child abuse and those recovering from
addictions.
"The best book I've read yet on how
to talk to your Inner Child and find what
it needs. Practical, helpful, and easy."
-- Melody Beattie, Author of Codependent No More
Do this for yourself and loved one's. Make
this a family project, to heal the past,
to live today to it's fullest.
Paperback 288 pages
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Embracing Our Selves - The
Voice Dialogue Manual by Drs. Hal & Sidra
Stone
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Partnering - A new kind of
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The Voice Dialogue Series - Drs. Hal & Sidra Stone
Video & Audio training in Voice Dialogue by the method creators
Conquer Your Inner Critical Voice by Dr. Robert Firestone
Released 6/02
The book is 7"x10", 215 pages retail price
"Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice" is a revolutionary program to counter
negative thoughts and live free from imagined limitations.
Learning to deal effectively with one's critical inner voice is central to all
areas of life: personal development, healthy relationships, self-esteem and
self-confidence, creative endeavors, and career success.
"Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice" by Drs. Robert & Lisa Firestone and Joyce
Callet, MA is an excellent complement to my book "Recovery of Your Inner Child".
It provides practical & effective tools for dealing with the Inner Critical Parent.
The journal exercise format will be familiar to my readers. For those who have
been using my inner child method this book will enable them to extend & deepen
their work with the Inner Critical Parent.
Anyone in recovery from addictive or co-dependent behavior will benefit from
working the journal exercises in "Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice"
Lucia Capacchione, PH.D, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist,
Art Therapist Registered
Author of:
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A TESTIMONIAL
ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
June 28, 2000
Dear Lucia,
I run a residential crisis centre for survivors
of child abuse in Australia. Since we discovered
your book and have started daily groups doing
inner child work, the intensity and hastening
of recovery has been extraordinary
We are a centre where survivors can come
at no cost to stay and we are run entirely
by volunteers who are all survivors, so we
are thrilled to find such a simple, magical
method of really helping each other.
Do you ever come to Australia?? Will you
be running any courses here?? Where can we
purchase your book in Australia?
We have over 1,000 members throughout Australia
all struggling to heal, mostly on disability
pensions or unemployment benefits.
I cannot thank you enough for your contribution
to our healing
Liz Mullinar
P.S. if you are interested in who we are.
Our website is www.asca.org.au.
ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE
Mayumarri, South Basin Road, Elrington 2325.
Phone: (02)4990 9043 Fax: (02) 4990 8941.
CAN 072 260 005.
Patron: His Excellency the Honourable Sir
William Deane. AC, KBE, Governor-General
of the Commonwealth of Australia
Donations to Mayumarri Trust Fund of $2 and
over are tax deductible.
Mayumarri is aboriginal for peace and it is our healing centre where members
stay at cost of $25.00 a week to heal from the effects of their abuse .
We have daily workshops based on inner child work, we have over 500 guests
every year. Wonderful results. Members can stay for a week at a time.
Next year we are opening a house for teenagers where they can stay for six
months and a children's camp for weekend and week long camps for abused
kids.
We live on a prayer.
Come visit sometime. Our first group is about to open in UK.
(Now Get Creative.com is proud to help Mayumarri, by supplying them with
heavily discounted books)
About the Author
Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T. is an Art Therapist Registered & Registered
Expressive Arts Therapist, artist, psychologist,
popular international workshop leader, author
of 12 books, including her newest release; May 25th Living With
Feeling; Visioning Ten Steps to Designing the Life
of Your Dreams, and the best-selling Recovery of Your Inner Child. The originator of the Creative Journal
Method, Dr. Capacchione is recognized as a pioneer
in health and healing through creativity. As a career counselor, she has conducted
job outplacement seminars, talent development,
and corporate consulting for business and
industry, including such clients as Hallmark, Mattel, and Walt Disney Imagineering.
She lives near Big Sur, California
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