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A review by ssalamanca
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw
4.0
"I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back... It doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense anyway?"
"Thus children, unlike concentration camp inmates, are confronted by a tormentor they love"
"School rewards conformity and memorization rather than creativity and uniqueness. Many of us who adapted to become straight-A students never developed a true sense of competence. I spent a major part of my life trying to heal my being wound by performing and doing. No matter how many straight-A's I got, it did nothing to heal the spiritual wound: deep down, my wounded inner child still felt alone and inadequate."
"If your parents refuse to take responsibility for their own wounded inner child, you need to remember that your primary obligation is to your own life. You didn't come into this world to take care of your parents."
"Discipline as a set of techniques geared to ease life's inevitable pain."
"Intimacy only works if each partner takes responsibility for his or her own vulnerable inner child."
"Thus children, unlike concentration camp inmates, are confronted by a tormentor they love"
"School rewards conformity and memorization rather than creativity and uniqueness. Many of us who adapted to become straight-A students never developed a true sense of competence. I spent a major part of my life trying to heal my being wound by performing and doing. No matter how many straight-A's I got, it did nothing to heal the spiritual wound: deep down, my wounded inner child still felt alone and inadequate."
"If your parents refuse to take responsibility for their own wounded inner child, you need to remember that your primary obligation is to your own life. You didn't come into this world to take care of your parents."
"Discipline as a set of techniques geared to ease life's inevitable pain."
"Intimacy only works if each partner takes responsibility for his or her own vulnerable inner child."