Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

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The parents in dysfunctional families are adult children themselves; their own wounded inner child is needy. Whenever their children feel needy, which they do naturally, the adult-child parent gets angry and shames them. Subsequently, anytime the child’s wounded inner child feels needy, he feels shamed. For a large part of my adult life I felt ashamed whenever I needed help. Finally, no matter how appropriate the context, the shame-based person feels shame when he is sexual.” Finally, I really felt like googling "John Bradshaw criticism". Here are some quotes by actual psychologists I found: Bradshaw on the Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self Discovery. Deerfield Beach, Florida: Health Communications. 1988. ISBN 978-0932194541. One cause of adult anxiety is being overexposed as a child before you were able to develop any boundaries to protect yourself. An example would be a parent who is overly judgmental in criticizing developmentally normal childhood behavior. Toxic shame is often manifested in dreams of being naked in inappropriate places or in not being prepared, as in suddenly having to take your final exam without having prepared for it.

In 1991, John was nominated for an Emmyfor Outstanding Talk Show Host for his series Bradshaw On: Homecoming. In 1996, John was the host of the nationally syndicated talk show, The Bradshaw Differencewith MGM Studios. John is widely sought as a public speaker and continues to tour the world giving lectures and workshops. Our emotional boundaries tell us where our emotions end and another's begin. They tell us when our feelings are about ourselves and when they are about others." But the healing part is just some home remedy and cult-like level stuff. I simply don't think imagining yourself as a child, and talking to him, actually does you any good except making you feel like you are going crazy. I didn't even want to read the spirituality part. I think the author should go and write his stories about a higher being elsewhere.Example of mind reading: when someone doesn’t talk to you, you think they are mad at you. Reality: you are hallucinating; gather evidence about what is really happening. Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often ‘lose it’ in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but wonder if it’s worth the struggle? Are you consumed at times by anxiety or depression? Coming home to your true self may help. Consider the abuse guru John Bradshaw who, through a series of television programs and books, persuaded a large number of Americans to believe they have an 'inner child.' People now literally talk to their inner child, comfort it, give it a name and personality, defend its right to exist, and find ways to get to know it better. There is no inner child--it is simply a metaphor! But to millions its existence is now a 'fact' and dictates their way of life. That is a very effective use of suggestion.” Maxmillian truly has no self-worth, which is engendered from within; he has other:5-worth, which depends on other people."

John's HOMECOMING WORKSHOPSand inner child therapies are used all over the World and have been attended by millions of people. The failure to be loved unconditionally causes the child to suffer the deepest of all deprivations. Only faint echoes of the world of others ever truly reach the adult who has a deprived and wounded inner child. The need for love never leaves him. The hunger remains and the wounded inner child tries to fill this void in the ways I've described."

Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often “lose it” in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it’s worth the struggle? Or are you plagued by constant vague feelings of anxiety or depression?