Gift Yourself Love. A Workbook for Gentle Healing. How to Calm Your Inner Child and Learn to Be a Happy Adult

Time does not heal. Conscious action heals. This workbook is your step-by-step route from the consequences of childhood traumas to a life where you feel, decide, and breathe freely.

Do you feel that some reactions, fears, or relationship patterns come from ‘there,’ from childhood? That somewhere inside lives a ‘wounded child’ who still controls you in moments of stress? You are not alone.

Simply reading books is often not enough. You need a tool for real change. This workbook is created precisely for that. Psychologist Stefanida Skvortsova has developed a safe and structured self-therapy system. 40 exercises are 40 steps towards yourself, to not just remember, but to process, accept, and let go.

What benefits will you gain by working with this workbook?

— Clarity: you will finally be able to ‘dig’ down to the roots of your emotional reactions, limiting beliefs, and recurring patterns.

— Safety: the exercises are constructed gently and ecologically, so you won't feel overwhelmed. You move at a pace comfortable for you, controlling the depth of immersion.

— Release from guilt and shame: you will stop blaming yourself for your feelings. You will learn to see the wound behind them, which can be healed, not condemned.

— Confidence: through working with your inner resources and the ‘adult’ part of your personality, you will gain support within yourself, rather than in external approval.

— Freedom of choice: the most important result. You will stop acting ‘on autopilot’ from childhood defenses. You will be able to consciously choose how to respond, what to say – ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

What’s inside the workbook?

— Step-by-step guiding exercises: from simple to complex: working with sensations, memories, dialoguing with inner parts, finding resources.

— Practical techniques: specific tools from the psychotherapy arsenal, adapted for safe independent application.

— Space for your discoveries: this is your personal therapeutic notebook. You fill it with your thoughts, images, insights, creating a unique map of your healing.

— A structure that provides support: a clear action plan eliminates the feeling of confusion ‘where to start?’. You simply open the next page.

Who is this workbook for?

— For those who understand that childhood experiences affect their adult lives but do not know what to do about it.

— For those who want to work with a psychologist but currently cannot and are looking for a quality tool to start their journey.

— For those who are already in therapy and want to supplement their sessions with deep home work.

— For everyone who believes that healing is possible and is ready to invest time and attention in the most important person – themselves.