Three things are striking about inner child work,” says John Bradshaw. “the speed with which people change when they do this work; the depth of the power and creativity that result when the wounds from the past are healed.”

We first see the world though the eyes of a little child, and that "inner child" remains with us throughout our lives, no matter how outwardly “grown-up” and powerful we become. If our vulnerable child was hurt, abandoned, shamed, or neglected, that child’s pain, grief, and anger live on within us. “I believe that this neglected, wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery," says Bradshaw

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.

In this powerful life-changing book, HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child,  John Bradshaw  shows us how we can learn to nurture that sometimes needy inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for.

Through a step-be-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage in our childhood, we can break away for the destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. 

"Then," says Bradshaw, "the healed inner child becomes a source of vitality and creativity, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living."

HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child offers a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including indexes of suspicion questionnaires, non-dominant-hand letter writing, guided meditations, grief work, and affirmations.  Pioneering when first introduced by John Bradshaw, these classic therapies are now being validated by the new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience.  No one has ever brought them to a popular audience more effectively and inspiringly than John Bradshaw.

John's HOMECOMING WORKSHOPS and inner child therapies are used all over the World and have been attended by millions of people.

This book HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child is recommended for academic, professional, private and public libraries and those searching for ways to really be the kind of person we want everyone to think we are.

People who bought the book HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, also bought the 10 hour intensive PBS workshop on DVD of BRADSHAW ON: HOMECOMING-The Inner Child Workshop as well as the Emmy nominated DVD HEALING THE SHAME THAT BINDS YOU.