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John Bradshaw


Born
in Houston, Texas
June 29, 1933

Died
May 08, 2016

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Parenting & Families, Religion & Spirituality, Psychology


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John Bradshaw has been called "America's leading personal growth expert." The author of five New York Times bestsellers, Bradshaw On: The Family, Healing the Shame That Binds You, Homecoming, Creating Love, and Family Secrets. He created and hosted four nationally broadcast PBS television series based on his best-selling books. John pioneered the concept of the "Inner Child" and brought the term "dysfunctional family" into the mainstream. He has touched and changed millions of lives through his books, television series, and his lectures and workshops around the country.

During the past twenty-five years he has worked as a counselor, theologian, management ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 16,953 ratings · 848 reviews · 239 distinct works • Similar authors
Healing the Shame that Bind...
4.09 avg rating — 11,334 ratings — published 1988 — 45 editions
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Homecoming: Reclaiming and ...
4.02 avg rating — 2,537 ratings — published 1990 — 40 editions
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Bradshaw on the Family: A N...
4.12 avg rating — 1,354 ratings — published 1985 — 38 editions
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Family Secrets - The Path f...
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Creating Love: The Next Gre...
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Reclaiming Virtue: How We C...
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Co-Dependency
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“To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
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“Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
tags: consciousness, hell
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“Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
tags: abandonment, child-development
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