📚 Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child by Thich Nhat Hanh
Your inner child carries the unhealed hurts of childhood — the anger from feeling unseen, the fear from harsh words, the sadness from abandonment — and Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that reconciliation starts by recognizing this child lives in you still, reacting through adult triggers.
With Plum Village gentleness, he offers breath practices, letter-writing to your younger self, and "hugging meditation" to hold that child tenderly, transforming resentment into understanding, not just for yourself but for strained family ties.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk exiled for peace activism during the Vietnam War, founded Plum Village — the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe — and authored 100+ books blending mindfulness with healing after surviving bombs, loss, and displacement. His lived wisdom, from war orphanages to global retreats, infuses this work with profound tenderness for the inner child's universal longing to be held and seen.
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