Resources
The following are resources to help you with a variety of needs.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233, www.thehotline.org
Look up your local resource in advance so you that understand your rights for establishing a domestic violence restraining order, also known as a temporary protective order, in the United States and its territories.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255, www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
National Institute of Mental Health: www.nimh.nih.gov Victories for Men: www.victoriesformen.org
The Art of Manliness: www.artofmanliness.org
Mental health support for active military, veterans and their families: www.giveanhour.org
Alcoholics Anonymous: www.aa.org
Narcotics Anonymous: www.na.org
The Trevor Project for LGBT issues: 1-866-488-7386, www.thetrevorproject.org
Codependents Anonymous: www.coda.org
To access the companion workbook to Healing Your Lost Inner Child for additional material, shared stories, and in-depth exercises, please visit my website at www.theartofpracticalwisdom.com.
For further reading on the subject of inner child work and other personal work, the following books may be of interest to you:
Dr. Eric Berne: Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships, Tantor Media, 2011
John Bradshaw: Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, Bantam, 1992.
Dr. Brené Brown: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Avery, reprint ed., 2015.
Jeff Brown: Love It Forward, Enrealment Press, 2014.
Susan Cain: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Broadway Books, 2013.
Doris Eliana Cohen, PhD: Repetition: Past Lives, Life, and Rebirth, Hay House, Inc., 2008.
Panache Desai: You Are Enough: Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility, HarperCollins, 2020.
Dr. Joe Dispenza: Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon, Hay House, Inc., 2017.
Matthew Fox: The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, New World Library, 2008.
Louise Hay: You Can Heal Your Life, Hay House, Inc., 1984.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Penguin Books, 2015.
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, & Douglas Carlton Abrams: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, Avery, 2016.
Jackson MacKenzie: Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self after Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse, Penguin Random House, 2019.
Dr. Karyl McBride, PhD: Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing The Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers, Atria Books, reprint ed., 2008.
Pia Mellody: Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes From, How It Sabotages Our Lives, HarperCollins, 1989.
Alice Miller: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Basic Books, 2008.
Vivek H. Murthy, MD: Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, HarperCollins, 2020.
Mark Nepo: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have, Conari Press, 2000.
Michael Newton, PhD: Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Llewellyn Publications, 2000.
Michael Newton, PhD: Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life between Lives, Llewellyn Publications, 5th ed., 2019.
Newton Institute: Wisdom of Souls: Case Studies of Life between Lives from the Michael Newton Institute, Llewellyn Publications, 2019.
Eleanor Payson: The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with One-Way Relationships in Work, Love, and Family, Julian Day Publications, 3rd ed., 2002.
Terrence Real: I Don’t Want to Talk about It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, Scribner, reprint ed., 1999.
David Richo: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving, Shambhala Publications, 2002.
Ross Rosenberg: The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap, Morgan James Publishing, 2019.
Babette Rothschild: The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Gary Zukav: The Seat of the Soul, Fireside/Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1989.