Resources that will help you embrace your inner child and grow up

Books

Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles L. Whitfield

Growing Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression by John Lee

Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves and Parenting Our Children by Connie Dawson and Jean Illsley Clarke

Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow by Judith Viorst

Support groups

Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA)

Journaling resources

Journal Writing: Your Therapist at Home (free report from White Picket Fence Counseling Center)

Spirit of Change (21-day journaling tool from White Picket Fence Counseling Center)

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away by Cathryn L. Taylor

 

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