Gifts From The Child Within: A Recovery Workbook

By Barbara Sinor and Lavona Stillman

Gifts From the Child Within brings a refreshing approach to guiding its reader to understanding the initial or underlying basis to their emotional suffering due to past childhood trauma. This recovery book is geared toward both professional and layperson. Its pages are filled with offerings from psychological, physiological, and spiritual perspectives which takes the reader on a journey into the soul. It is written with sensitivity and clarity inviting the reader to search within for healing.

As the author shares her own journey of childhood abuse, the reader is asked to address issues surrounding physical, mental, spiritual, and sexual abuse. Instructions are captured to guide one toward reaching for their own child within; releasing negative emotions; re-creating outdated childhood beliefs; and, to recognize the gifts the inner child has for us.

The process of Re-Creation Therapy(tm) is introduced by the author allowing the reader who follows its guidance to reap the effects of gradual changes in self-awareness which lead to a greater understanding of the psychodynamics the child within plays in the adult life. Included are a series of healing visualizations and autohypnosis suggestions; blank journal pages; and sample affirmations following each chapter.

What Experts Say About Gifts From The Child Within

"This is indeed a valuable self-help book and a tool for the Counselor, Hypnotherapist, Minister, Psychotherapist, or Clinician. I assure you, the world will look much brighter after you read this book." --Lavona Stillman, PhD, CC, HT

"Barbara Sinor has written a book that will help the violated and traumatized child within to heal. Gifts From The Child Within helps guide survivors with repressed memories of trauma, as well as those with current memories of incest, through the healing process." Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America 1958, Founder: Survivor's United Network

"Barbara Sinor has bridged the gap for clients and therapists alike between the mere discovery of the inner child and the building of a true relationship with this most important being within. Gifts From The Child Within is an important and highly readable work." Rick Boyes, M. Coun, CHT, Author A Body To Die For

"Gifts From The Child Within is a wonderful book that takes the reader on a journey into the soul. Flowing and readable, this book is filled with stories, myths, information, and revelation." Marilyn Gordon, CHT, Author, Healing is Remembering Who You Are

For more information: see www.DrSinor.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Loving Healing Press Inc
• Release date: Jan 1, 2008
• ISBN: 9781615999804

Barbara Sinor

Barbara Sinor, Ph.D. is a retired psychotherapist who counseled adults recovering from childhood sexual abuse, PTSD, addiction recovery, and adult children of alcoholics. Sinor's books focus on the issues surrounding the healing and recovery of the above using holistic methods on all levels, including spiritual and metaphysical. Her education includes a Doctorate in Psychology and a Clinical Certification in Hypnotherapy. Sinor is also an ordained minister. Dr. Sinor is the author of five books and is currently working on her sixth. She welcomes comments directed through her web site: www.DrSinor.com Books by Sinor: "Beyond Words: A Lexicon of Metaphysical Thought", "Gifts From the Child Within: An Inspirational Guide for the Recovering Soul", "Tales of Addiction", and co-author of "Addiction--What's Really Going On? Inside a Heroin Treatment Program"

Reviews for Gifts From The Child Within

[morphidae_1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I read fifty pages and finally threw up my hands in defeat. I was aggravated by the constant references to the author’s Re-Creation Therapy™. Making up a special name for a common set of therapies is just annoying. Add above-average density and it wasn’t a pleasant read for me. There were a few spots I highlighted, but overall it wasn’t worth my time.

[awriterspen_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book took me some time to review because at first the therapy put forth not only takes time to work through, but I also wanted to see how I felt after completing this book. As a survivor of severe childhood abuse, both sexual and physical; combined with neglect, poverty, and abandonment; I have sought out help for the last twenty years. How does one heal a wound so deep? Medication and drugs are not the answer, you must be healed with the mind. I've tried hypnosis, counseling, books, biofeedback, meditation, group counseling, and more. Although I function in society, getting past abuse has been a lifelong struggle for me. I really felt like Dr. Sinor has an exceptional insight into the mind of abuse survivors, and her book, Gifts From the Child Within can be especially helpful to abuse survivors. She focuses heavily on Re-Creation Therapy, her own form of therapy where you get to know the inner child that you once were by creating a dialogue and recalling/recreating memories of your childhood. You learn how the inner child has been guiding your life. Emotional trauma endured in childhood so often controls our lifestyles, thoughts, and actions as adults. Rather than letting your childhood trauma continue to disrupt the rest of your life, Dr. Sinor teaches that you can live a conscious, creative, and productive life, and get to know your true self. She utilizes journaling, meditation, biofeedback, and of course education to help ground her readers into a brighter frame of mind. This book has been a true gift. This is one of the best recovery books I've ever read. She gradually introduced new concepts, while keeping the reader engaged, learning, and healing. If you are dealing with childhood abuse issues as an adult, get this book now and start the healing process.

[medievalmama_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Gifts From the Child Within, 2nd Ed. By Barbara SinorThis book is subtitled: “A Workbook for Self-Discovery and self-recovery through Re-Creation Therapy”. The content is based on the hypnotherapy practice of Dr. Sinor, the educational theories of Dr. Milton Ericson, and the general therapeutic ideas of Alice Miller, all of which advocate that each of us has a wounded child within which needs to be freed and embraced and that children who have been abused are more damaged than most and more easily reached by hypnotherapy than standard therapy. This book is divided into four sections – “The Child Within”, “Re-Create Your Own Reality”, “Adult Child Games”, and “Gifts From the Child Within”. Each chapter offers opportunities to visualize, interact with/change the visualization, create affirmations that affirm the reader’s progress and destination, practice self-generated techniques of age regression, as well as offering opportunities to draw, play, or journal, and more. Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels of consciousness are each addressed throughout the book. As a self-help junkie for many years in the 1980s and 1990s, I am familiar with many of the techniques and exercises that Sinor uses and with many of the books she recommends. I appreciate that she suggests working through the recovery journey with at least one other confidant, that she acknowledges that there are times that one might need professional intervention, perhaps a therapist, a 12-step group, a spiritual director, and that she stresses that fixing a broken self is not an instantaneous process, but can take many years to work through. I found most of the exercises powerful and helpful. I like that she frames her therapy in terms of “total adventure” (33) and gives copious examples from her cases, from mythological/archetypal sources, from her own experiences. My one real dislike is that, at times, when she is discussing various examples, the discussion seems very condescending, with such simplified words and sentence structure that I wonder how capable of understanding she sees her audience as, except that in other places, her content is very clearly clinical, technical, and requires a high level of understanding. This switching back and forth disrupts my reading and annoys me. In addition, adding the “channeled entity Emmanuel” (44-46 ff.) into the mix of therapists and doctors Sinor cites might make some readers question the whole because of this small part. Also, I wish the bibliography contained all of the books that Sinor mentions in her text, rather than being just a tiny selection of works.All-in-all, even though this book is intended for adults who were abused as children and who are now codependent and wounded, I think anyone can benefit from the examples given and the exercises provided. Even as I write this, I continue to work my way back and forth through the exercises.