Self Parenting: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations [Paperback] Pollard, John K and Nusbaum, Linda

Most of us spend our lives having conversations with ourselves — criticizing, comforting, pushing, or punishing. John K. Pollard's approach flips the script: what if you could become the nurturing parent you needed, to the wounded child still living inside you? This guide walks you through identifying your internal voices — the harsh critic, the abandoned child, the saboteur — and learning to respond with compassion instead of condemnation. Pollard offers practical exercises for rewriting those automatic inner dialogues that keep you stuck in old patterns. It's part psychology workbook, part permission slip to be kinder to yourself. The techniques are straightforward, the tone is gentle, and the premise is simple: you can't change your past, but you can change how you talk to yourself about it. For anyone tired of their own mental bullying or stuck in cycles of self-sabotage, this is a practical starting point.