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 !

Feels sales heavy

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

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.

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.