This book was a labor of love. It contains much of my life's work while working in my practice as a psychospiritual counselor for those whose journey brought them to my office. Gifts From the Child Within will always be a book close to my heart for in it are unique stories of lives in recovery. All the experiences related in this book are true, the names have been altered to protect the anonymity of those who shared their stories.
"Gifts From the Child Within is more than a well-written, well-researched guide to recovery from our childhood wounds. It is an exciting adventure in psychospiritual growth based on inner wisdom exercises that are a powerful addition to the archives of healing."
The following Review touches the heart of the book!
Gift From Within - Book Review
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Gifts From The Child Within: Self-Discovery and Self-Recovery Through Re-Creation Therapy
by Barbara Sinor, Ph.D.
2nd Edition published by Loving Healing Press (2008)
ISBN 978-1-932690-46-0
Join me on a marvelous journey...
The writer, herself a therapist, uses “Re-Creation Therapy” which, simply put, helps the reader to re-create, or transform, traumas into experiences that would have happened the way the reader wanted them to. The reader will find herself going back into the past and changing traumatic experiences. This is done with the help of exercises, affirmations, journaling and the use of autohypnosis, all offered in each chapter to guide the reader through the transformation of her own life experiences that she wants to change.
I spent more time with this book than I have any other so far. I can attest this is a valuable tool for all our members and visitors. If you are unable to locate a therapist nearby, this book will help you and guide you in an uplifting and compassionate manner. The author will lead you as you follow “exercises, suggestions, and guidance” that will offer astounding insights about why you are who you are and how to become more like you want to be.
Why is it so important to re-create our experiences of the past that hurt us? The author shows us that we learned “illusional reality” in our childhoods and based our life experiences on those false realities. Many of us, as we well know, have lived our whole lives enslaved by the pain of our past. In order to live fuller lives we need to deprogram our inner reality. This goes contrary to what many of our therapists have told us. Many of us are instructed that it is not important to remember what happened to us in the past, just to change our present behavior and experiences. If you are like me, you have harbored an inner conviction that you cannot overcome what happened without visiting that occurrence and dealing with it. The author takes us a step further. Not only do we go into the past and seemingly relive some experiences, we take control and change those very traumatic memories into something better. One might think this would be frightening and leave us feeling drained, however I found myself, after the auto-hypnotic exercises, feeling empowered and free. That feeling stayed with me, assuring me that change was really taking place.
I believe this book is especially helpful for those who have complex PTSD as a result of childhood traumas, and who have been unsuccessful responding to traditional therapies and treatments for PTSD. Another plus is that you are able to do these exercises yourself in a safe and comfortable environment. Rather than dreading these private therapy sessions, or feeling anxious about them, I found myself looking forward to my time each evening, as if I was preparing to leave on the greatest adventure of all.
And so I would like to invite you on a marvelous journey in which you will get to know a very important person...yourself. Grab a copy of this book, sit down in a comfortable chair, make sure your journal is nearby and a good-writing pen. Prepare to get to know yourself better than you do now, and expect healing to come as you learn to find the “gifts from the child within.”
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Gifts From The Child Within: Self-Discovery and
Self-Recovery through ReCreation Therapy,
2nd Edition
Author: Barbara Sinor
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
ISBN: 978-1-932690-46-0
Gifts From The Child Within is a beautifully written, incredibly moving
and potentially life changing workbook for self discovery and recovery
through Re-Creation Therapy.
Many of the emotional, mental and even physical problems we face as
adults can be traced back to a childhood trauma or experience. To
work through the issues of today, it's often of vital importance to
discover and work through the issues of childhood.
Dr. Sinor is an advocate of the use of Re-Creation Therapy.
Re-Creation Therapy is a transforming process; reaching for and touching
the child that still resides within all of us. When we accept the
child we were and the trauma and experiences we were subject to,
we can release the blockages and pain of childhood that have followed us
into adulthood. Divided into several parts, the book enables the
reader to work through issues that still affect them at the speed they
are comfortable with.
Part One deals with helping the reader comprehend and understand what
the concept of "The Child Within" really means. With examples and
exercises, readers will be better able to reach their inner children and
understand what issues are still being carried within.
Parts Two and Three offer visualizations, affirmations, exercises and
the use of autohypnosis to begin the recovery process. With space
left blank within the book, it can be used as an actual journal,
tracking the reader's progress throughout the stages of both discovery
and recovery.
The author has presented the information in a way that allows for use by
both the professional and layperson. Written in an
easily understandable and conversational style, the reader will feel
they are working with a friend, and feel the ability to open up and work
through the baggage and issues carried forward from childhood. One
of the things I found particularly helpful was that the program is set
up to be worked at the reader's own pace and on a schedule and timing
that allows the user to fully digest the information they discover at
their own speed; avoiding the stress that comes with a need to maintain
a stringent deadline, working on a particular issue until you feel
you've worked through it.
Reviewed on 05/24/2010 by
ReviewTheBook.com Member LAURI COATES
One Last Review!
"Gifts from The Child Within is a very refreshing and thorough book
written for survivors of abuse, counselors, and those just trying to
understand family and friends who are victims or survivors. Sinor, with
her own personal experience and excellent skill in writing, makes you
feel as if you are taking a journey through yourself with self-discovery
as well as healing. She has written this book in a workbook form as well
to aide the reader through this journey of discovery and healing
smoothly and responsibly. She makes the reader work through their own
abusive memories of childhood by reading and noting steps for healing in
one very easy unique transition. In Gifts from The Child Within, you are
not only re-living the traumatic aspect of your childhood, it is done in
a way that you are able to understand many feelings and issues that you
may not have been aware of in your life today on a daily basis.
For my own experience or journey through this workbook, it was like an
awakening into the very soul of my being. I not only learned of things
or actions in my daily life today, I was able to understand where “they”
came from and why, as well as understood these in a new light. As well,
I myself have learned the techniques that Sinor suggests, explains, and
walks you through. This book is a very handy tool for anyone who has
suffered any kind of childhood abuse, be it physically or emotionally as
they both set very deep scars within ourselves that at times cause us to
act or re-act in childish ways with or without a conscious awareness.
This workbook will awaken you to your own child within and teaches you
how to become aware of when he or she is acting out, or up, in a
situation. You learn to reel-in that child and teach him, or her, a more
responsible way to act or re-act by learning to change the outcome of
those abusive memories into positive memories either by a self-hypnotic
state and/or the process of Re-Creation Therapy.
I recommend Gifts from The Child Within to anyone who has been abused in
their childhood, friends and family of those abused, counselors,
therapists and the like who desire to learn, understand and aide one
through their journey and enlightenment. It is surely one you will not
forget; in truth, though the tools you learn you would not wish to
forget as they walk you through victim to “The Present and Beyond”
safely and with forgiveness and a self-knowledge. It will enable you to
watch and control how one acts and re-acts in many situations throughout
life with relationships, work, school and just daily emotions that come
up. Thank you Barbara Sinor for this wonderful workbook and the smooth
understandable read, as it is not filled with technical terms but with
understanding, sincerity and a desire to help all of us that share this
walk."
Review by Elizabeth E. Gibson-Evans for RebeccasReads