Taming Your Outer Child: Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment

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Chances are, you’ve already had run-ins with your Outer Child — the self-sabotaging, bungling, and impulsive part of your personality. This misguided, hidden nemesis blows your diet, overspends, and ruins your love life. Your Outer Child acts out and fulfills your legitimate childlike needs and wants in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in counterproductive ways: It goes for immediate gratification and the quick fix in spite of your best-laid plans.

Now, in a revolutionary rethinking of the link between emotion and behavior, veteran psychotherapist Susan Anderson offers a three-step program to tame your Outer Child’s destructive behavior. This dynamic, transformational set of strategies — action steps that act like physical therapy for the brain — calms your Inner Child, strengthens your Adult Self, releases you from the self-blame and shame at the root of Outer Child issues, and paves new neural pathways that can lead to more productive behavior. The result is happiness, fulfillment, self-mastery, and self-love.

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• The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Revised and Updated: Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages That Accompany the Loss of Love
• Black Swan: The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery
• Love Me, Don't Leave Me: Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships
• The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away
• The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Turn the End of a Relationship into the Beginning of a New Life
• The Journey from Heartbreak to Connection
• Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self
• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
• The Attachment Theory Workbook: Powerful Tools to Promote Understanding, Increase Stability, and Build Lasting Relationships