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Hurts experienced in our youth, be they traumas or trials, might get stowed away, yet our inner child remembers. It doesn’t matter how much time passes or how mature we become; such hurts can eventually cause friction in our daily lives, casting a long shadow over our relationships with ourselves, our loved ones, and our God.
Written in a compassionate and pastoral tone by licensed marriage and family therapist Brya Hanan, Befriending Your Inner Child: A Catholic Approach to Inner Healing invites you to venture deep into your heart and befriend your hurts, emotional wounds, and childish behavior—or in the world of psychotherapy, your “inner child”—to reclaim your truest self, experience inner wholeness and healing, and strengthen your relationship with God and others.
Part one of the book explains why it is essential to befriend your inner child as well as the wounds and self-protections that this “child within” holds. Through this discovery, you will learn how to transform your deepest hurts into opportunities for healing and integration. Part two of the book offers practical tools to tend to your inner child compassionately.
Through Hanan’s practical “5 A’s,” you will learn how to
anchor yourself in God and in your God-given body; acknowledge your feelings and where you notice them showing up in your body; attune to your deepest wounds, core beliefs, and distressing feelings; ask God to show you what you need and how to participate in his healing work; and act consistently with loving compassion toward yourself.
Hanan vulnerably shares her own journey of “reparenting” her inner child with God and offers additional case studies from her clinical practice that highlight how different life stories and life stages can respond to befriending their inner child. Each chapter includes charts, lists, and “Befriend Work” exercises that challenge readers to reflect further on the content.
If you long to experience more fulfillment and wholeness, this book is for you.
From the Publisher
See the Truth Again: You Are Enough. You Are Good. You Are God’s Child.
Once you are allowed to let this truth settle into your entire being, you can witness the shroud of darkness and confusion begin to dissipate and start to experience healing and wholeness.
But how do you even start to integrate this truth into the most wounded parts of yourself?
You may have heard of inner child healing, but weren’t sure how that could fit in with your Catholic faith. In Befriending Your Inner Child, Catholic licensed marriage and family therapist and certified family trauma specialist Byra Hanan shows how you can incorporate inner child work into your daily walk with Christ. Through the pages of her guide, she shares how harmonizing this work with your faith becomes a transforming invitation to enter the depths of your interior world and God’s expansive love for you.
Throughout this book, you will find how to
Anchor Your Own Identity in Christ
Our Creator gave you a nervous system to inform you when you are safe to be who you are created to be or when your core identity is being threatened.
The wounds of our past can throw a wrench into that system, which in turns leads to a painful identity crisis. The more that you experience the truth of being made in God’s image and being loved as God’s son or daughter, the more your nervous system can regulate and keep you feeling anchored.
Encounter and Nuture Your Wounded Child
As an adult, you have the opportunity to know and to be exactly what you needed when you were a child. With this knowledge, you can meet your wounded self with healing compassion and process the hurt that you once had to handle alone.
The exercises, meditations, and prayers from this book help you identify core wounds, beliefs, and feelings that are causing you pain in the present so that, with the Lord’s grace, you can encounter that inner child with healing truth.
Step into Your Spirit-Led Adult Self
Knowing that you are God’s child and how you have been wounded is only half the battle. God wants you to be able to accept, integrate, and live in that freedom.
The second half of this book is all about how you can participate in God’s redemptive healing through a lived relationship with the Trinity. Through the practical steps of anchor, acknowledge, attune, ask, and act, you will learn how to live in the freedom that Christ’s death on the cross won for you and discover how the Lord is calling you to be who he created you to be.
Meet Your Guide through Inner Child Healing
Brya Hanan is a Catholic licensed marriage and family therapist and certified family trauma specialist who owns Hanan Hope and Healing, a private practice in Arizona.
In 2014, Hanan earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in Catholic studies at Loyola Marymount University. She earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Holy Names University in 2017. Hanan creates webinars and workbooks to help people befriend their inner child and experience holistic healing.
She is the author of God Whispered Gently, a children’s book she wrote about her own inner child.
ASIN : B0CTWQXDJX
Publisher : Ave Maria Press (April 19, 2024)
Publication date : April 19, 2024
Language : English
File size : 7535 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 198 pages
