How to Heal Core Wounds: Workbook for Core Beliefs with Strategies for Identifying and Healing with 40 exercises and space to write! (Violet Oak Series)

Do you have a tendency to people please? Fear abandonment? Feel safer withdrawing and isolating yourself? Maybe you feel unimportant or defective.Feelings like these can be evidence of core wounds - typically harmful stories we carry through life from childhood; but we don't have to keep believing them.Using this workbook, you will be introduced to, or better understand, core wounds and how they relate to you. You will learn how to determine which core wounds you have, and you will learn how to reprogram them, because just as they were programed into you, you can change your relationship to them. Maybe as a child, you had a dismissive or overly critical caregiver, and as an adult, you feel you have to earn love and overcompensate to measure up, showing an "I am unloved" wound. Maybe you moved a lot growing up, changing schools, and feeling as though you had no control, and now you showcase controlling habits so you have power over people and your environment that you felt you didn't before, alluding to "I am powerless". Or maybe you were abandoned by a caregiver, whether they left or passed away, or a caregiver constantly or traumatically broke your trust, and as an adult you are suspicious, maybe feeling the need to check your partner's story, or worrying they may leave you, or you fear closeness and sabotage relationships perceiving it as your protection, as if thinking "I will be betrayed". Though negative, the wounds that you carry will feel familiar, so you will find that you reenact them toward yourself. Becoming aware of your wounds is a huge step forward. Even better is working on them. In this workbook, each core wound has its own exercise tailored for it, though you may find it beneficial to use one wound's exercise for another wound as well. There are 17 additional exercises for any wound, whether for identifying which you have or healing wounds.What's inside?40 exercises with core wound healing and identification in mindLined space to write your answers, notes, and responsesExamples to walk you through the exercisesOverview of helpful topics, including boundaries, the areas of life, needs, attachment theoryAn introduction to each core wound covered in this workbook, including how it's formed and common signsA specific exercise for each core woundExercises for core wounds in generalKnowing, working on, and healing your core wounds is an amazing step in feeling more confident and happier. You'll understand yourself better and be able to think more securely in real time.Find out what your wounds are and how to heal them todayThough helpful, this is not to be a substitute for therapy or counseling. Read more