Lucia Capacchione - Recovery of Your Inner Child:The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self

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Recovery ofyour inner child / Lucia Capacchione.
p. cm.
"A Fireside book."
I. Inner child. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology) 3. Writing
Psychological aspects. 4. Drawing, Psychology of. 5. Left and
right-handedness. 6. Cerebral dominance. I. Title.
BF698.35.I55C361991
158'.1dc2090-46317CIP

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc. for per mission to reprint thedrawingson pages 28, 29, and 30from ThePower of YourOtherHand, by Lucia Capacchione.
Copyright 1988 by Lucia Capacchione.

contribution, and supportfor their invaluable expertise,
through all phases of this project.
Without their collaboration
thisbook would not have been possible.
Special thanks to Jim Strohecker for his
role in the conceptual development of thisbook

particularly regarding his insights into
the Triune Brain Theory and
the research ofDr. Alvaro Lopez-Watermann.

Heartfelt thanks to all thosewho have participatedinmy Inner Child workshops over the yearsespecially thosewho attended the Embracing Your Inner ChildWorkshop at La Casa de Maria
as I was completing the manuscript of this book.Without your stories, drawings, dialogues, and lovingsupponthisbook would not have been possible.

Betty AndersonGeraldineBemsKathy Bevacqua

AnneBoundyJudy BradleyRon BrookshireMolly CampbellPenelope CariffeFaithAnn CavalierAnne Leigh CourtneyKay Cox
Bette Davis
Joan DelzangleDelores EstradaMichcle FeherRainie Fross
Susan Gant
Don Gay
Bonne GoltzreiserSusan GonzalezTraceyHansenNancyKane

Elizabeth Lord
Rosa ManriquezSue Maxwell
Dee Nicholson
Carol Parrish
Kathy Price
Tom Reilly
Maria RodriguezBeverly Sibley
Katherine SmithJim Strohecker
Nancy Shaw StroheckerLola Taylor
JanelTemple
TriciaThompsonKateTieman
Gcri Towle
Manda WashburnChristina WilsonLoriZann

Dedicated, with love, to SriBhagawan Nityananda, agreatIndian saintand master teacher ofthe Siddha lineage, whosecompany was sought by sagesand children alike.

WAIVER
Theauthorofthisbookdocsnotdispensemedicalorpsychiatricadvice,norprescribe the use ofany technique as a form of treatment for medical orpsychiatric problems without the advice ofa physician or therapist, eitherdirectlyor indirectly.The intent oftheauthor isonly to offerinformation ofa general nature to helpyou inyourquest foremotional well-being. In theevent you use any of the information in this book for yourself, you areprescribing for yourself, which is your constitutional right, but the authorand publisherassumeno responsibility foryour actions.

' IIntroduction by Charles L. Whitfield
FindingMy Inner ChildI^
PART1. DISCOVERING YOUR INNER CHILDPART II: EXPLORING YOUR INNER PARENT
CONTENTS
PART III: GIVING BIRTH TO THE MAGICAL CHILD

nine:Letting Your Child Out to Play2 1 1

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Introduction

Irecommend thisbook toany adult child of a dysfunctional familywho wants to strengthen orgo deeper into the process ofhealing their Child Within.

Experiential recovery aids are an important part of recovery, and here Lucia Capacchione provides numerous guidelines, exercises, and pearls ofwisdom to helpyou access, know, and be your true self your Child Within.

Alice Miller, a pioneer in the recovery field, said, "Onlywhen I make room for the medo I feel myselftobegenuineand creative."'Wehavevoiceofthe childwithin
heard empowering messages such as these throughout history but didn't knowhow to usethem until now. The Old Testament prophets told us, "The wolf alsoshall dwellwith thelamb, and theleopard shall liedownwith the kid,and the calfand the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them."(Isaiah 11:6).And Christ said it more clearly, "Unlessyouchangeandbecome like children,you willnot entertheKingdom ofHeaven." (Matthew 11:25, 18:3;little