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  • Healing the Child Within

  • Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
  • By: Charles Whitfield
  • Narrated by: Robert Feifar
  • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (531 ratings)

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Healing the Child Within

By: Charles Whitfield
Narrated by: Robert Feifar
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Publisher's summary

Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all.

In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child within - that part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative, and fulfilled - launched the inner child movement. Healing the Child Within describes how the inner child is lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering it, we can heal the fear, confusion, and unhappiness of adult life.

Eighteen years and more than a million copies sold later, Healing the Child Within is a perennial selling classic in the field of psychology. And it is even more timely today than it was in 1987. Recent brain research, particularly on the effects of trauma on the brain of developing children, has supported Whitfield's intuitive understanding as a psychiatrist.

About HCI Recovery Classics: HCI's recovery backlist contains some of the most important and best-selling works in the recovery field. These books are still sought after today, selling more than 100,000 copies per year. Our new line of branded audiobooks features expanded editions of our top recovery titles, new introductions, updates on pertinent recent developments in the field, and contemporary new cover art.

©1987 Charles L. Whitfield (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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I really love this book. I have already listened to it three times. Each time I listen I hear something new.

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A MUST

A must in the journey of reaching our higher self. It applies to any disfunction, even the most stubble ones. Love the way he wraps it all up at the end.

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Amazing

I loved this book! Must read. Imperative to healing the inner child and living your best life.

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All my life fell into place after reading this book

I recommend. Old book but so right on the money. I wish I had came across it 20 years ago.

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Must Read! Probably the only self help book you’ll need!

This book explains simply how we as humans work and how we can reclaim our true self and rediscover the happiness that lies within. It’s an essential when trying to understand feelings and emotions and how to grieve and work through our core issues and what the process looks like. It’s a short, easy read, with a tremendous amount of truth, information, and knowledge. Quick and to the point. I love it. Probably the only “self help” book you’ll ever need!

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Good information

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, it offers good information.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Healing the Child Within?

Characteristics and irrational behaviors of the wounded child.

Have you listened to any of Robert Feifar’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

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The book offers information but did not go indepth on how the wounded inner child forms its neurosis. The steps presented seem at times didactic and formulaic.

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Insightful and inspiring for Adult Children

It was very helpful to clarify the things needed to go the healing process for para-alcoholism

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faith

Faith is the key, Daily time with God, I pray all the time, but just sitting with him!

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An excellent guide

Surprisingly still accurate for a book written in 1987. It's an excellent guide.

I love how he stresses the importance of not rushing ourselves through the process. It's so frequent that we get stuck in our stories, stuck in our emotions, and the people we love become tired of hearing about it. Even support groups do this. We need to respect our own timing for moving on (preferably without burdening everyone though - why I am a proponent of self talk).

Through this unconditional validation, we will eventually reach an epiphany. We have a choice in deciding how we feel. .... We can let go, and it's on us.

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worth reading

this audiobook is something one needs to read repeatedly in order to absorb the information.

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