Category Archives: Reparenting
What is Reparenting and How Do We Use It?
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
Your Childhood Pain was a Gift
Learn to Listen and Guide Your Inner Voices
Helping Others to Learn Reparenting
According to Dr. Tian Dayton, children who grow up with alcohol or other drug abuse may experience:
• Loss of Trust and Faith Due to deep ruptures in primary, dependency relationships and breakdown of an orderly world.
• Distorted Reasoning Due to convoluted attempts to make sense and meaning out of chaotic, confusing, frightening or painful experience that feels senseless.
• Easily Triggered
• Development of Rigid Psychological Defenses When this person develops long term ‘character armor’ to defend against letting pain in.
• Desire to Self-Medicate When this person attempts to quiet and control their turbulent, troubled inner world through the use of drugs and alcohol or behavioral addictions.This can be part of how addiction gets passed down through the generations.
More Help From Self-Parenting Books
Strawberry Schoolhouse by kevindooley
(1) The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook
“Trauma can take many forms, from witnessing a violent crime or surviving a natural disaster to living with the effects of abuse, rape, combat, or alcoholism. Deep emotional wounds may seem like they will never heal. However, with The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Dr. Glenn Schiraldi offers a remarkable range of treatment alternatives and self-management techniques, showing survivors that the other side of pain is recovery and growth.”
Live your life more fully-without fear, pain, depression, or self-doubt
- Identify emotional triggers-and protect yourself from further harm
- Understand the link between PTSD and addiction-and how to break it
- Find the best treatments and techniques that are right for you
“This updated edition covers new information for war veterans and survivors with substance addictions. It also explores mindfulness-based treatments, couples strategies, medical aids, and other important treatment innovations.”
(2) Reparenting by Dr. Larry Gilliam, Deborah Freeman, and David Majors
Product description:
“Deep inside you, there is a part of you that still thinks, feels, and reacts like a child. This is true because time alone does not heal all the wounds of childhood. There are actually steps and a process you must go through to nurture and heal the child within you. This process is called reparenting, and this workbook is the first of two volumes designed to walk you through it.”
(3) Stories That Heal: Reparenting Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Lee Wallas
This book has many stories about each phase of childhood growth.
(4) When Love is Not Perfect: Discovering Gods Reparenting Process
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(5) Reparenting Yourself by Art Martin has a subtitle of “Growing Up Again–Recovering Your Lost Self.
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