I like this book and the questions the author has provided to work through, and lots of journaling exercises. I also like the way it also includes inner teenager, young adult, divine feminine and divine masculine, as well as darkness and light. I recommend this for someone who is new to inner child healing work.
Thanks to NetGalley for the review copy. The opinions expressed are my own.

This book focuses on exercises, journaling, and mediation to help us heal our inner child and inner teen. These methods have been well documented for their ability to help those struggling with depression, anxiety, social disorders, just to name a few. I think sometimes it can be hard to take something so simple as journaling seriously, but it has been proven that the act of touching pen to paper and writing our thoughts out is exponentially more beneficial than just contemplating or thinking things out in our head. Highly recommended!

I have mixed feelings about this book. The concept is a familiar one with a 'spiritual' twist and perhaps it's because I've been in group therapy for a while now that none of it seemed very groundbreaking or new.

There is encouragement of journaling (including sample questions to write about) that can help you figure things out and she gives description of what 'inner child' means which I thought was nice simply because that always feels like buzz words to me as opposed to something tangible and real. She goes on to have chapters on your 'inner teen', 'inner young adult', 'inner woman' ect ect. They have have exercises and in addition there's a list of 'mantras' you can say to remind yourself to forgive yourself for past mistakes, to be kind to yourself, you're not responsible for other's actions, ect, ect.

In the introduction there's mention of the theory that emotional trauma can affect your health. (Her exact words were something about how emotions will wrap themselves around organs and affect how they operate within your body.) This is a concept that held interest for me as I do think our emotional being will affect our physical being. Do I believe it to the extent mentioned in this book? Not sure but there are some interesting exercises to work on it.

There's some meditations (some of which remind me of the various mindful meditations that can be found on any mediation app - body scan, breathing exercises, etc) to help you envision your inner self to bring awareness to inner trauma in order to heal it.

If this all sounds too 'woo woo' to you it probably is. For me I thought it had some good information about journaling and how to utilize it to help one deal with past trauma. The mediations were interesting and I think if I was brand new to all of this I would have gotten more out of it!

One note: There are a LOT of spelling and grammar errors in this advance copy. Hopefully by the time it's actually published the publisher will have edited it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy!

I generally like the idea of the book, spiritual healing is something we could all really learn and make time to do. The cover is stunning however I really struggled with the book due to many spelling errors. I hope this will be fixed before publication to make the book perfect.

I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Netgalley and the author for allowing me to read this book.

First, sorry for my possible English mistakes.
This unusual book is filled with many spiritual exercises, and what is most important all are very practical! Method is really super easy. Next, great and superb insights are shared which will be very helpful if youre already on "spiritual path" Finally, clear explanations are given about working with "the inner child", there is also "the inner teen"...fine add! Contrary to authors sayings that you need to read her previous book in order to understand this one I can say that is not the case since this text is clear enough to be followed if youre from some other tradition or spiritual path as well. Although at moments text is pretty preachy in a way that "my way is the only way" I can say that this is one interesting and practical book.
I received this book from Net Galley and Llewellyn Publications for a honest review.

For those who are interested in the out-there side of psychology and self-healing, this is a great book! It's not really science-based, but more of the spiritual side of healing. The life is divided into child, teen, and young adult, with exercises to focus on healing the wounds from that particular era of life. There is also the feminine and masculine addressed. Exercises and journaling are a big part of the activity section of the book.