Dear Dan:

Perhaps you didn’t find my explanation in regard to self-parenting useful. I wanted to point to a few of the many resources that explain the concept of self-parenting better than my initial effort to explain it:

1) A book: “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child (“In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for”, Amazon)

2) Another book: The Self Parenting Program, Core Guidelines for the Self-Parenting Practitioner (You can become your own loving parent!)

3) A workbook: The Inner Child Workbook: what to do with your past when it just won’t go away (“a step-by-step guide to reparenting the children within and healing their shame, anger, and feelings of abandonment. Using written and verbal exercises, guided imagery, journaling, drawing, mirror work, and rituals, you can change your experience of the past”, Amazon)

4) Another workbook: Inner Child Healing Workbook, Heal and Reparent Your Inner Child.

anita