Product Description

Erika Chopich and Margaret Paul show how anyone can reconnect with his or her Inner Child to short-circuit self-destructive patterns, resolve fears and conflicts, and build satisfying relationships. Healing Your Aloneness outlines a self-healing process that can be used every day to restore a nurturing balance between loving Adult and loved Inner Child.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30697 in Books
• Published on: 1990-07-20
• Released on: 1990-07-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780062501493
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"A profound look at the cause of inner pain." SUSAN FORWARD, author of "Toxic Parents"

"This practical and powerful guide to inner healing will be especially useful to anyone at a crossroads, crisis, or change-point in their personal and spiritual growth." HAROLD H. BLOOMFIELD, author of "Making Peace With Your Parents"

"The authors have made an explicit and important break with other child within writers by emphasizing that it is not simply a healthy Inner Child for Inner Parent but a healthy relationship between the two that is the key to personal health.The work is practical, compelling, and very readable." JOHN VASCONCELLOS, California Assemblyman, 23rd District

"A valuable roadmap for healing the child within us." WALTER E. BRACKELMANNS, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, UCLA -- Endorsements

About the Author
Rev. Dr. Erika Chopich is the co-creator of Inner Bonding, a transformational six-step inner healing process. Dr. Chopich a best-selling author, Chaplain and founder of Hope America Ministries Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to re-integrating the homeless and providing assistance to disaster victims. In addition to having practiced as a psychotherapist, she was formerly an administrator for the Los Angeles Free Clinic. In addition to working with individuals, groups, and business mediation, Erika in an accomplished speaker and seminar leader. She is co-author of Healing Your Aloneness and the Healing Your Aloneness Workbook. Her books have been translated into five languages: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and Japanese. Healing Your Aloneness and the Healing Your Aloneness Workbook are best-sellers in Germany.

Dr. Chopich resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is an accomplished pilot and experienced chef. Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the co-creator of Inner Bonding, a transformational six-step spiritual healing process. She is a best-selling author, noted public speaker, workshop leader, chaplain, educator, humanitarian, consultant, and Inner Bonding facilitator. She has been leading groups, teaching classes and workshops, and working with individuals, couples, partnerships and businesses since 1973. Margaret is passionate about evolving and teaching the process of Inner Bonding.

Margaret is the co-author of Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You? (over 400,000 copies sold), Free to Love, Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By My Kids?, Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?...The Workbook, Healing Your Aloneness, The Healing Your Aloneness Workbook, and author of Inner Bonding and Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By God? Her books have been translated into ten languages: German, Italian, Danish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch and Russian. Healing Your Aloneness and The Healing Your Aloneness Workbook are best-sellers in Germany.

Margaret has three grown children. In her spare time she is an artist. She resides in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

I learned to communicate with my daughter and love my self
Review

I read "Healing Your Aloneness" because my daughter asked me to. She felt it would help me understand the type of therapy she was involed in and give us a common language that might improve the quality of the communication between us. I am so very glad I followed my daughter's lead.

This book taught me the Inner Bonding process in such a beautiful way, with moving stories from the lives of some of the authors'clients. It helped me see that, in responding to my daughter's

wounded Inner Child, I was in "Intent to Protect" my ego instead of "Intent to Learn" about my daughter's pain.

I thought I was helping to heal the gap between us by the things I said to my daughter. But what I learned from the non-judgemental way the authors helped others understand how a "Loving Adult" relates to a wounded "Inner Child" showed me why she stayed distant.

Now, when my daughter talks about her wounded Inner Child, I have the awareness and the tools to let her know I hear her heart. We are not home yet, but the gap is closing. My daughter now knows that she can trust that I love her, that I will "hang in there" with the healing process and that, if she lets me know what her Inner Child needs, I will try my very best to provide it.

"Healing Your Aloneness" gave me another gift. It helped me get in touch with and listen to my own Inner Child. He is seven. His name is "Billy," He, too, has wounds that have not healed. He, too, is angry at me for not listening to him, for not being there. I am continuing to bond with him from my "Loving Adult." He is so bright,so wise, so needy, so capable of joy. I love that little boy and he too is beginning to trust that I do.

I am grateful that the authors have put the Inner Bonding process in a book that is such a joy to read. Reading it has not only helped me have the loving relationship I so wanted with my daughter, it has helped me to love myself.

All growth is hard work
All growth is really hard work. This is hard work. I would equate it to the transformation that The Incredible Hulk goes through. The thing is though, it isn't that fast. It takes time and dedication. I've read maybe 30 books and they all have their wisdoms and their truths, but it was this book that put me on the road I needed to be on. Somethings just resonate. This resonated with me, and when I started communicating with the abandoned and hurt child within me, I could for the first time see what had gone wrong and what I needed to do to fix it. I'm not completely there, but I have no doubt that I will.

Excellent Help
Most of us have been raised by parents who did not realize the damage they did to us in our formative years.

This book allows us to see and repair that damage and therefore to treat ourselves as our parents should have treated us.

I recommend this book highly.