Affirmations for the Inner Child Paperback – April 1, 1990

This is another book that I use with my patients in my individual or group therapy sessions. It is so uplifting and has wonderful meditations, to ponder on. Easy to carry, quick to read a passage a day for those needing to heal or therapists who want to use it in their practice.

Very interesting, informative and engaging.

Great daily read. Highly recommend

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This book is powerful. I”’ a therapist and I read several of the passages to some of my groups. My patients love the messages. I highly recommend this book!

seriously, I was skeptical when my therapist recommended affirmations, but I regard them just as insights into formative events in childhood that are still affecting me. Good for children of alcoholics, divorce, neglect, basically all Gen X'ers like me. They are on daily dated pages but there is a handy index of subjects in the back.

This book is like having a kind, caring friend with you each day, encouraging you while you are working on yourself, trying to break negative childhood patterns, and live a healthier, happier life as an adult. Each affirmation proposes that you speak to yourself in a kind, non-judgmental way, and hits on issues like low-self esteem, feeling "not good enough," feeling like you don't have your life together, feeling like you don't "do enough," etc. It focuses on helping you reprogram from hurtful and harmful messages a person has ingrained in themselves from childhood, due to a dysfunctional family and/or abusive/neglectful parents. It is a wonderful tool for anyone attending ACA groups (Adult Children of Alcoholics - but your parent doesn't actually have to have been an alcoholic, anyone with dysfunctional/neglectful/abusive parents meets the mission of who ACA is aimed at serving).The affirmations are for individual days, but you don't have to use the book that way - you can read it all in one sitting, thumb through each day until you find one or two affirmations that particularly speak to you, or any other way that makes sense to you.While the book feels a little dated, that's only natural since it was published in 1990. But that doesn't detract from the core messages that are helpful and hopeful.

I believe this little daily meditation book was designed to be read by the calendar date indicated on each page. If you are looking for some sense of direction this book is an absolute MUST. Even if you read it by just letting the book open to any page, you will find that there's something going on in your life TODAY that the daily reading will address. These are ideas on which to focus as you go through your day with simple ways to shift your perception of the events in your life. This is a way to sense and enjoy freedom each and every day. Remember that though you may have forgotten times in your life, the child that lives within you has memory of everything and you now have the opportunity to re-train your child into a serene, responsible, joy-filled adult. Take 5 minutes to give you a wonderful gift first thing every morning when you awaken.