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A review by tiffyb
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw
Did not finish book.
2.0
DNF.
This is the sort of book you MAKE yourself reach for because you want to improve yourself. I’d imagine that this book may have been the best of its kind at the time of writing, but there must certainly be better and more updated books on this topic by now. There’s far too much reference to “science” that has been proven false for my analytical mind to get any further in this book. (Science both in his field and out of his field- the references to “being into butt stuff” all the way to asserting that only humans are capable of laughter). He seems to also pull from many other sources that were mostly conjecture (stages of life for example). His explanations about the way trauma can affect you felt outdated and not necessarily applicable to different kinds of trauma (anytime he touched on physical abuse or alcoholism, it seemed like his writing “lit up”, but discussion of any other kinds of abuse felt forced and hazy, like he didn’t really understand what he was writing about). Once I hit the chapter about “elves,” I realized I’m just not going to be able to drag myself through this writing any longer.
This is the sort of book you MAKE yourself reach for because you want to improve yourself. I’d imagine that this book may have been the best of its kind at the time of writing, but there must certainly be better and more updated books on this topic by now. There’s far too much reference to “science” that has been proven false for my analytical mind to get any further in this book. (Science both in his field and out of his field- the references to “being into butt stuff” all the way to asserting that only humans are capable of laughter). He seems to also pull from many other sources that were mostly conjecture (stages of life for example). His explanations about the way trauma can affect you felt outdated and not necessarily applicable to different kinds of trauma (anytime he touched on physical abuse or alcoholism, it seemed like his writing “lit up”, but discussion of any other kinds of abuse felt forced and hazy, like he didn’t really understand what he was writing about). Once I hit the chapter about “elves,” I realized I’m just not going to be able to drag myself through this writing any longer.