Stories That Heal: Reparenting Adult Children of Dysfunctional
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (974 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393701069 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In this way the "adult child" incorporates a new childhood.The book includes a step-by-step preparation for increasing clients' receptivity to the stories, describing how rapport can be established and trust developed during the initial sessions of hypnotherapy. Don't feel; don't trust yourself or anyone else; don't talk." As children, they incorporated these verbal and nonverbal "teachings" uncritically, since they were taught by their parents.These teaching tales, told not about the clients themselves but about others "who seem familiar," start with the mother's pregnancy and progress through the developmental stages, always depicting parenting as facilitative and supportive. In addition, the author shares clients' reactions to the stories, showing how reparenting in trance enables them to move beyond anger and self-deprecation to forgiveness and personal growth.Many people bemoan their unhappy, deprived childhoodsand with good cause. Hearing these stories while in hypnotic trance, clients experience healthy reparenting, replacing hurtful past experience with loving infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Here stories become a means of healing, of reparenting, and of conveying to the unconscious mind the peace and comfort of an idealized childhoodoften with almost magical effects.Stories That Heal addresses adult children of dysfunctional families, who from infancy received distorted messages from their parents, messages that
. Lee Wallas, who became a psychotherapist after a long and successful career as an artist, is a clinical social worker in private practice with individuals and families in St. Louis
About the Author Lee Wallas, who became a psychotherapist after a long and successful career as an artist, is a clinical social worker in private practice with individuals and families in St. Louis.
Sierra said Quite an interesting book. I come from a background of severe abuse. My therapist gave me this book to read at the begining of our work together. The book is basically written for clinicians to use during hypno-therapy sessions with clients, but my therapist does not use hypno-therapy and instead asked me to read and think about the stories while I was fully conscious. The book is basically a composition of many small, very simply written short stories about. "Sometimes it hurts to heal, but hanging onto old wounds hurts so much worse." according to Seeker. Not a fast read. I had to read a story, then put it down (sometimes to cry for awhile--but healing tears). Sometimes I even left it alone for awhile. I highly recommend this book for anyone who feels the need to continue that journey into their future by first journeying into the past for healing. And I recommend it be read first, then Wallas' "Stories for the Third Ear" be read. That's what worked for me, anyway.. Reed Calico said Five Stars. Extraordinarily helpful book for someone recovering from dysfunctional family.