Taming Your Outer Child

Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment

By: Susan Anderson

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

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.

©2015 Susan Anderson (P)2017 Tantor

The life changer

If you suffer from abandonment this book is amazing new voice! It helps identify a lot and blocks. Makes room for you to grow and heal !

Great self help

Great tips based on CBT and proven methods. i can reccomend reading it. Thanks for all

The Adult Self, The Inner-Child, The Outer- Child

I learned about a part of the psyche, termed The Outer-Child, and how it reacts to The Inner-Child's raw emotions. I learned that the Adult Self can referee between the two in order to better parent the Inner-Child.

Feels sales heavy

Was a great listen with great info... But it just feels like a sales pitch at various points

Great read

Very insightful! This allows an individual to get a different perspective for healing and abandonment issues. I would certainly recommend it for others to read

Great Book- Do Not Like Narration

Great take on the subject matter. Bought the paperback as well. Got the Audible version to listen to on my commute. I don’t mean to offend the narrators on Audible, but I wish there were more easy going storytellers and fewer narrators who sound like they are reading for a commercial. The style and tone don’t fit the subject matter and kind of makes you tune out. I’ve found this on several books lately. I want to hear a storyteller, not a commercial.

I finally know why I am so messed up

Thank you Susan Anderson. This book is going to change my life. I read journey from abandonment first and I loved it because but this book gave me the tools to change. Thank you so much. My inner child has been crying out my whole life. I can heal her now.

Most important book I’ve ever read!

This should be considered THE SACRED BOOM over healing your trauma !!! Of all the therapy I’ve had this was the most moving and made more sense than any other!!

insightful

if you are interested in understanding the mechanisms behind certain human behaviors this is one of the better resources I have found. There are exercises to help you dialogue with those parts of yourself that have been neglected and forge a path towards healing. If you're looking to raise your emotional IQ this will help you on that path. As with all self-help books you must do the work to see results. I recommend having a go to person to help you stay accountable to your goals of reversing harmful patterns of behavior into healthy ones. You do not need to be a student of psychology to understand the bulk of this book, though there is science based evidence to support themes and ideas. Overall I recommend highly.

Great tools!

I had some great takeaways that immediately helped me shift. Will continue to practice these tools. I feel like this book has something for everyone. Maybe not every chapter but look for the area you need help with.