Home Coming (Reclaiming And Championing Your Inner Child)

This book offers validation and hope towards healing. The wounds of shame are so deep and altering. Highly suggest this book...I also highly suggest seeing a licensed therapist while working through this book if you have any past trauma.

Although not a Christian book, I heard about Home Coming through Christian radio. I bought it for myself, hoping to begin dealing with my issues but I also began to gain understanding of others. The walls started to come down as I began to see others as hurt beings, just like myself. Forgiveness of myself and others followed. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs healing.

May be helpful to some but subscribes to the notion that we are all walking pathologies and "grieving" what we either know or imagine malpractice our parents did to us. If you were raised in a fairly traditional home with a pathological parent, you may find some help. But if, like many of us, you have no accounting of your early childhood, Bradshaw claims you can "reclaim it" through his questions. If you've heard of therapies that may spark false memories, Bradshaw's work may be a case in point

Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing your Inner Child

In this book Bradshaw (1992) who had PBS television series based on the major ideas of this book puts forth the theory of a "Wounded Inner Child". He hypothesizes that most of our interpersonal issues emerge and sustain because our inner child is wounded . Further, each one of us has this inner child wounded to some extent and each family is dysfunctional to a certain point.

The author might be very right but I tend to disagree with this theory of inner child. The book contains exercises that you can take to see at what level of development your inner child got wounded and then ideas to put into practice for the healing of your inner child. The book might interest you if you have plenty of time on your hand.