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A gentle, validating, and insightful guide to reparenting your wounded inner child and finding peace, healing, and wholeness as an adult.

If you experienced trauma as a child—including physical, sexual, or emotional abuse; neglect; household dysfunction; or toxic stress—you may struggle with anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as an adult. Early childhood trauma can cause lasting effects, keeping you feeling stuck, lost, and unable to move forward. But you can heal the pain of the past and reclaim well-being in the present. 

If you’re struggling with unresolved childhood trauma, reconnecting with your vulnerable inner child can unlock profound healing and set the stage for profound personal growth. Written by an expert in childhood trauma, this gentle guide presents an integrative approach that merges inner child work with self-compassion techniques to help you “reparent” the wounded aspects of yourself that were lost, frozen in time, or traumatized—so you can start moving toward the life you were meant to live. 

This compassionate guide will help you: 

• Identify past trauma—and heal from its effects 
• Recognize how trauma responses can manifest in your daily life 
• Establish a connection with your wounded inner child 
• Understand your childhood needs through a new lens 
• Explore the impacts of abusive, authoritarian, passive, and neglectful parenting 
• Create a “reparenting plan” to address your unmet needs 

  

In your journey toward healing, this gentle guide can serve as a beacon of hope and resilience. By gaining a better understanding of your childhood trauma and the transformative power of reparenting, you’ll be empowered to rewrite the narrative of your past and step into a future guided by self-compassion and inner strength.

Nicole Johnson, LPC, MEd, is a licensed professional counselor and certified clinical trauma professional with a dual master’s in education and counseling, and a bachelor’s degree in political science. A member of the American Counseling Association and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Johnson is also a certified life coach, and is owner and founder of Oak and Ivy Therapy Services. She is known as “The Ginger Shrink” on social media, and offers her nationally available virtual psychoeducation course on trauma and abuse called “Get a G.R.I.P.” Johnson presents at conferences around the country where she frequently speaks on childhood trauma, abuse, and her unique approach to healing. She hosts a virtual workshop on “Reparenting Your Inner Child,” and lives in Boise, ID. You can find out more about Johnson at www.thegingershrink.squarespace.com.

Reparenting Your Inner Child 

Healing Unresolved Childhood Trauma and Reclaiming Wholeness through Self-Compassion

Written By Nicole Johnson, LPC MEd

Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews

Reparenting Your Inner Child Healing Unresolved Childhood Trauma and Reclaiming Wholeness Through Self-Compassion written by Nicole Johnson, LPC, MED. is a very short but very meaningful read that will resonate with many readers. For me personally I found this book very educational and very relatable in many situations. 

Reparenting Your Inner Child is here to guide you find and connect the dots to show you how to discover your wounded inner child,  this book will help you exhale, release, and let go of the pain your child self has been holding on for so long.

With childhood trauma moments can alter your mind, body, and soul that natural ebb and soul that natural ebb and flow process of healing is interrupted we become stuck in that moment, froze in time and experience it over and over again, We break away from the memory. We try to move on but wake up one day not knowing who we are. Not recognizing ourselves in the mirror. 

Readers will get to read patient stories and get an insight of what they went through. 

At the end of each chapter there are takeaways and questions to consider. 

This is a deep book that gives you a ton of information. Even though this is a shorter read, it was a lot to digest in just one sitting (at least for me). It is one of those books where you can learn a lot about yourself. I would highly suggest it to others.