I have believed for years that addiction is cured only when we learn how to reparent ourselves, This includes not only healing our inner child but also healing all the children we have within.
I have written the following posts about the inner child and/or reparenting:
Our Inner Child is our Eternal Child
Recovery Means Healing All Your [...]
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In Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, Harville Hendrix writes:
“When you hear the words “psychological and emotional damage of childhood”, you may immediately think about serious childhood traumas such as sexual or physical abuse or the suffering that comes from having parents who divorced or died or were alcoholics. And for many [...]
“It requires a tremendous leap of faith to imagine that your own childhood—punctuated with pain, loss, and hurt-may, in fact, be a gift. Certainly the unhappiness you felt was not, in itself, a blessing; but in response to that pain, you learned to cultivate a powerful intuition, a heightened sensitivity, and a passionate devotion to [...]
