Book Report: Healing the Child Within by Whitfield

I just found out yesterday that it is my turn to present a book report as part of our monthly requirement at work.

With only three days to do blitz-read and understand the material, my boss suggested that I read “Healing the Child Within” by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.

Thank God I am jargon-savvy on 12 Steps Recovery tools and principles that it has not been such a tedious task to skim and get what this author has lovingly compiled.

Healing the Child Within is a recovery book on how to reclaim the our True Self which has been stifled by dysfunctions, abuse (unwittingly or consciously done) by our families and the world at large. The book proposes that wounded children are survivors by the mere fact that they are still alive to this day despite the subtle atrocities that are done to them on a daily basis. This stifles the Inner Child which is basically spontaneous, loving and creative (among other characteristics) and distorts the person’s sense of reality, thus bringing suffering and chaos in one’s life. The order of the day is to work on Core Issues through the spiritual practice of trusting Life’s processes by means of a therapist, counselor or a support group (all of whom should have the requisite of working their own life issues if the process is to be a healing, instead of a further harmful one).

I am writing in long hand the notes and bullets of this gem of a book and am learning more and more about Life and the practical solutions in dealing with people at work and my own family as well.

Here is a sneak peak into the life’s work of Charles Whitfield. Click here to be redirected to the source.