NOTICE: This Book Contains Sections that are greatly enhanced by the use of Audios that are sold separately: Contact me at dcarter73@msn.com, provide me with proof you bought this book, and I will send you a download link with the entire STAGE ONE audio collection. Since each stage goes through the same processes with stage-specific content, you will know what to expect should you want to buy the remainder of the downloads. To be clear, if you DO decide to buy the other audios, the price for the downloads will remain $37.00 for all approximately 60 mp3 programs. Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues is an "Inner Child" approach for grieving abandonment issues and healing the unfinished business of childhood. Since the wounds of unmet childhood needs are emotional in nature, recovery from these wounds needs a healing process emotional in nature. We humans are also meaning-makers and information processors who need to know why and how we are the way we are. That's why Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues is designed with an insight-oriented (cognitive) component as well as an experiential (emotional) component. The program integrates an interactive workbook with over 50 Audio programs that are designed to help release blocked emotions and resolve childhood grief & loss issues. As Rod Stewart said back in the 1970's, "the first cut is the deepest". Since Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues focuses on those "first and deepest cuts", it is safe to estimate that will take perhaps several months to work through completely. It puts a strong focus on experiencing, integrating, and releasing the emotions of the past. For this reason the program relies heavily on its many experiential audio programs to facilitate the emotional component to that healing process. Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues mimics the developmental processes of childhood. During the developmental stages of childhood, the pain that accumulated during the first stage of development was carried forward as a foundation for the work of the second stage, then the combined pain from the first and second stages are carried forward as a foundation for the experience of the third stage, etc. Similarly, the healing that accumulates as you work through the first stage is carried forward as a foundation for healing the second stage, then the combined healing from the first and second stages are carried forward as a foundation for healing the third stage, etc. While the audios are not absolutely necessary, they will enhance healing process dramatically. Visit http://store.internet-of-the-mind.com to purchase the Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues program audios. Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues is the second in the four-part Thawing the Iceberg Series by Don Carter, MSW, LCSW.