Summary of Margaret Paul's Healing Your Aloneness

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#1 The Inner Child is the part of us that was wounded and undeveloped, and it is essential to have a positive understanding of it. We must recognize and value the part of us that was not valued as children in order to become whole.

#2 The Inner Child has a full range of intense emotions, and it functions in the right-brain modes of being, feeling, and experiencing, as opposed to the Adult who functions in the left-brain modes of doing, thinking, and acting, but who also has a full range of feelings.

#3 The Inner Child is left feeling alone and unloved, and it becomes addicted to shoulds and rules as a way to control rejection. It develops a need to be perfect and a belief that it is possible to be perfect.

#4 The abandoned Inner Child, feeling desperately empty and alone, turns to various addictions to fill itself up. It becomes addicted to substances or activities to escape its pain of aloneness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822503670

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Inner Child is the part of us that was wounded and undeveloped, and it is essential to have a positive understanding of it. We must recognize and value the part of us that was not valued as children in order to become whole.

#2

The Inner Child has a full range of intense emotions, and it functions in the right-brain modes of being, feeling, and experiencing, as opposed to the Adult who functions in the left-brain modes of doing, thinking, and acting, but who also has a full range of feelings.

#3

The Inner Child is left feeling alone and unloved, and it becomes addicted to shoulds and rules as a way to control rejection. It develops a need to be perfect and a belief that it is possible to be perfect.

#4

The abandoned Inner Child, feeling desperately empty and alone, turns to various addictions to fill itself up. It becomes addicted to substances or activities to escape its pain of aloneness.

#5

The fear of being dominated and engulfed is just as powerful as the fear of being rejected and abandoned. When this fear is activated, your abandoned Inner Child protects itself by resisting what someone wants from you or from you.

#6

The Child, being conceptual rather than linear, contains our ability for deep emotional and spiritual connection within ourselves and with others. It is the loved Child that can tell us what we feel and want based on what feels right or wrong to