Taming Your Outer Child, Susan Anderson
Taming Your Outer Child, Susan Anderson
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Taming Your Outer Child
Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment

Author: Susan Anderson

Narrator: Randye Kaye

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/21/2017

Synopsis

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.

About Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson, a psychotherapist with over thirty years of experience, is an expert on how to overcome abandonment and its aftermath of self-sabotaging patterns. The author of The Journey from Heartbreak to Connection and Taming Your Outer Child, she reaches out through her Web sites, workshops, and media to share her methods of abandonment recovery with victims of the trauma of abandonment, heartbreak, and loss around the world. In addition to her national tours to promote abandonment recovery, Susan maintains a private practice in Manhattan and Long Island.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on September 28, 2012

This is a great book if you tend to sabotage your own efforts. It puts the "outer" child in his or her place - the part that is still mad about slights from childhood etc...the part that says, I was _____ed in childhood so now I can't______ , or I have a free pass to ______ (put off deadlines, overe......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on January 01, 2016

This is by far the most helpful self-help book I've ever read-it's like years of therapy distilled into one program (and I say that as a therapist). It helps supply this missing link between insight and behavior to begin positive change.......more

Goodreads review by Ashleigh on April 28, 2020

If you want to learn how to get out of your own way and learn how to accomplish your goals, this is a great book for you. But first, you're going to have to get comfortable with some exercises that might seem strange, like talking to your inner child and your "outer child." You're probably familiar......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on October 09, 2018

Transformative. Life-changing. Powerful. At first, writing the dialogues felt hokey, but I found myself having conversations I didn’t even know I was feeling. And getting in touch with how you’re really feeling gives you an opportunity to think of ways to change that and take better care of what you......more

Goodreads review by Sam on June 10, 2017

Great book. I will admit it seems a little hokie to divide yourself into three parts. Inner child, outer child, and adult self, but it truly works and you can dig deep into your feelings and learn how to let you inner child become alive.......more

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