Reparenting Your Inner Child – Gibson Lindsay C. (2025)

A gentle, validating, and insightful guide to reparenting your wounded inner child and finding peace, healing, and wholeness as an adult. Childhood trauma, including physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and toxic stress, can lead to anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder, leaving you feeling stuck, lost, and unable to move forward. Written by an expert in childhood trauma, this guide combines inner child work with self-compassion techniques to help you reparent the wounded parts of yourself that were lost, frozen in time, or traumatized. It will help you identify past trauma and heal from its effects, recognize trauma responses in daily life, reconnect with your wounded inner child, understand your childhood needs through a new lens, explore the effects of abusive, authoritarian, passive, and neglectful parenting, and create a reparenting plan for your unmet needs. By understanding your childhood trauma and the transformative power of reparenting, you can rewrite the narrative of your past and move toward a future guided by self-compassion and inner strength.