Think Unbroken: 8 Steps to Healing Your Inner Child

By Michael Anthony

Think Unbroken: 8 Steps to Healing Your Inner Child is a guide to creating a baseline understanding of rebuilding the relationship between your current self and the hurt inner child in you. Millions of people worldwide have experienced traumatic childhood experiences, and those experiences have shaped who we are. Often, adult survivors of childh

• Language: English
• Publisher: Think Unbroken LLC
• Release date: Apr 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781736776643

Michael Anthony

Michael Anthony is an award-winning speaker and author. He's the cofounder of Courage Matters (CourageMatters.com) and co-creator of the Modivation Journal and the Invisible Bible Journal. He has served in pastoral ministry for nearly two decades and has been featured in major news outlets and publications, such as the New York Times, Fox, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, CBN, The Christian Post, Charisma News, and more. He considers his greatest accomplishments to be marrying his wife, Janet, and raising and enjoying life with their two sons, Titus and Simeon.

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COPYRIGHT

Published by: Think Unbroken Book Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-7367766-2-9

ISBN: 978-1-7367766-4-3 (e-book)

Copyright © 2021 by Michael Anthony

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of Think Unbroken LLC, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and specific other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Names, characters, and locations are products of the author's imagination.For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permission Request, at [e-mail]

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Front and back cover design by: Michael Anthony.

Back cover photo by: Aki Votrubová

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DISCLAIMER

This book is not a replacement for seeking appropriate mental health care.

IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND NEED IMMEDIATE HELP PLEASE VISIT:

https://www.thinkunbroken.com/emergency-help-for-child-abuse

Or call your local emergency number.

DEDICATIONS

To your inner child,

I see you. I feel you. I hear you.

You are not alone.

Inside of you is a warrior waiting to get out.

Discovering self-love is without question the hardest thing that you may ever do.

I often ask myself what am I willing to do to have the life that I want to have and the answer is always WHATEVER IT TAKES.

By reading this and accepting a new challenge you are one step closer to being the person that you are capable of being.

There will always be space to learn to love, heal, nurture, trust, guide, and protect yourself as long as you are willing to. Even in the darkest of days, I know that there is still a small light that we can hold onto to guide us out of the darkness. May this book be your light.

I believe in you.

Though trauma may be our foundation, it is

not our future.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COPYRIGHT

DISCLAIMER

DEDICATIONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

GETTING STARTED

WHO ARE YOU?

FORGIVE YOURSELF

EXPLORE

NURTURE YOUR NEEDS

SPEAK YOUR TRUTH

A LETTER TO YOURSELF

MEDITATION

HONOR YOUR JOURNEY

THANK YOU

REVIEW

CONTACT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BY: MICHAEL ANTHONY

INTRODUCTION

I remember the first time I knew that I didn't understand what it meant to love myself. I was twenty-seven and had just recently gotten serious about my trauma healing journey. I was going to therapy regularly, working on my mindset, learning how to eat well, being kinder to myself, stopping smoking and drinking, and was on the path to healing. Or at least I thought I was.

I kept falling backward. It seemed like no matter what, I kept reverting to my past behaviors. I was in a loop of self-imposed chaos. I was continually taking one step forward and three steps back. Do you relate to this? I dove into this chaos in my first book, Think Unbroken: Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma; I won't get into the depths here. Let's just say that my childhood really fucked me up.

There I was on a bright and sunny Indiana summer afternoon sitting in my therapist's office and wondering again what I was doing there. Therapy didn't seem to be helping. I kept going, but it just felt like nothing was different. There was always another visit, another payment, and another dive into the depths of my abuse. But I kept feeling like there must be more. I kept seeking whatever that more could be, and I