I See You
A Journey out of Abuse by Creating a Conversation with Your Inner Child
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It may seem weird or even challenging to some that a relationship to the inner child is required. But in many ways, it does not differ entirely from commonplace practices adopted in psychoanalysis, whereby the strategies used to deal with dysfunctional personality traits can often be traced back to our early childhood experiences, which include abuse and abandonment. An intrinsic part of finding or re-establishing this relationship with our inner child is to ask ourselves questions like the following: Who am I really? Where is that joy I once knew? Am I really in charge of myself if I cannot find what truly makes me happy? Am I making choices based upon the pain and abandonment I suffered in the past? When exactly did I lose my inner child? What event(s) occurred to erode, block, or make me forget this part of myself? In the end, how you nourish your own inner child is up to you. But doing so is necessary in order to establish a strong basis upon which you can challenge and address the abuse you have encountered in your life.
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Brigit Stryder was sexually abused at age four and again at age twelve. This resulted in bedwetting, anxiety, and a disorder that caused her to pull out her eyelashes. She suffered these symptoms until her early teens, but she didn’t recognize it was the result of the sexual abuse until her early fifties. In I See You, she shares the raw account of how she struggled for years with her untold story of sexual abuse and her journey out of the cycle of feeling like a victim. Stryder provides honest and vulnerable details of her childhood story that many can identify with. She narrates how the journey back into herself gave her the tools to step off the trauma treadmill and bring her girl home. In this self-improvement book, Stryder tells how she harnesses the power of emotional freedom technique (EFT) tapping and ritual as tools to support others’ individual process. I See You presents a refreshing and unique offering to help illuminate your conscious and unconscious wounds. It gives you a chance at a new beginning, one in which we can all join in an exodus from our pasts and the feelings of powerlessness that have trapped us as adults and children.
About the Author
Brigit Stryder has been a practicing psychotherapist for twenty-five years. During this time, she has helped many clients suffering from childhood sexual abuse. Stryder has worked in a drug rehabilitation clinic using her emotional freedom technique skills to help people suffering from addiction to recovery. She also conducts women circles and dream groups empowering her clients to explore and develop their own relationship to the unconscious mind.