Jane Rowan
Ph D
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Healing from Childhood Abuse Expert
Jane Rowan Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- writing, inner child work, recovery from sexual abuse
- Best Sellers
- Caring for the Child Within--A Manual for Grownups; The River of Forgetting--A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse
- Career Focus
- author
JANE ROWAN is a survivor of childhood trauma and betrayal, and is passionate about sharing her healing experiences, including Inner Child work. She is the author of the self-help booklet Caring for the Child Within--A Manual for Grownups, a concise, powerful guide to nurturing your Inner Child, available through her website and through Amazon Kindle
Jane's inspiring, intimate story The River of Forgetting: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse, has been praised by Ellen Bass and Marilyn Van Derbur, author of Miss America By Day.
Jane is a Ph.D. and retired college professional who has published numerous articles and poems.
Jane's Inner Child Memoir Blog has many short essays on childhood trauma, healing from incest, forgiveness, the inner critic, and more.
Her website has collected some of the top resources - websites and books - for abuse survivors.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Soothing Your Inner Child
http://janerowan.com/Soothing.htm
Recovered memories of childhood abuse
http://janerowan.com/Recovered.htm
Creativity and the Inner Child
http://janerowan.com/Creativity.htm
Incest and the Inner Child
http://janerowan.com/Incest.htm
Resources: Inner Child and Abuse Recovery
http://janerowan.com/Resources.htm
The Inner Grownup
http://janechild.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html
Jane's Inner Child Memoir Blog
http://janechild.blogspot.com
Healing the Inner Child, an interview with zentactics
http://www.zentactics.com/healing-the-inner-child-interview.html
Interview on ZenTactics: Healing the Inner Child
http://www.zentactics.com/healing-the-inner-child-interview.html
Writing as Therapy, Writing as Writing
http://womensmemoirs.com/writing-and-healing/how-do-writing-and-healing-come-together-for-you-7/#more-13032
Free Audio & Video Samples
Video on memoir: The River of Forgetting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGg3k8kVgMk
Interviewed by Cathy Holloway-Hill--Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cathy-holloway-hill/2008/06/25/Healing-from-Incest-and-Childhood-Abuse
Healing and Creativity, an interview with Doug Foresta on Breakfree to Success
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dougforestashow/2011/04/21/interview-with-jane-rowan
Jane Rowan Books
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SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
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Healing From Abuse is Not the Same as Confrontation
A lot of survivors of sexual and physical abuse feel they need to confront someone about it. Face down the perpetrator and tell him (usually him) – tell him what? That what he did was wrong. That it was hurtful and did substantial harm.
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Growing Yourself Back Up, By John Lee--A Review
What’s great about this little book is that it identifies all kinds of situations where people spontaneously regress into childish behaviors. Maybe a guy in the car behind me at a red light blows his horn and nudges forward as soon as the light turns green. His behavior makes me feel ridiculously helpless, because he mimics my father’s arbitrary anger. Or a friend calls to cancel a date and I spiral into fear that no one loves me. These out-of-control feelings are typical of regression.
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Betrayal Trauma, By Jennifer Freyd--A Book Review
This book answers vital questions about recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. How can the huge betrayal of sexual abuse remain hidden in the back corners of someone’s psyche for years and years? Can we really believe a memory that was hidden so long?
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The Inner Child And Spirituality
When I read spiritual guidebooks, mostly based on Buddhism, the same objections arise in me every time. They ask us to “move beyond personal story” and to let go of old hurts. Well, I sure want to wriggle free of the stickiness of the old stuff, but I have to work a lot with it ...
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Inner Child and Inner Critic
Most of us are pretty well acquainted with the inner critic, the one who says (to me), “Your writing stinks. You’re not good enough. You’re not a loving person. You don’t have enough friends.” That inner critic voice is usually installed early in life and can ...
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Soothing Your Inner Child
Getting in touch with our inner children is not always easy. At first it might seem that they just want to cry and cry. That’s natural. The parts of us that were split off at a young age had to go away for good reasons—abuse, fear, neglect, misunderstanding. These young parts were not allowed to express their overwhelming feelings, so they took the feelings away with them. When we invite these lost inner children back into our lives, we have to be ready for them to express a lot of distress. But what do we do then? How do we soothe the inner child?
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Recovered memories of childhood abuse
Why are memories of abuse so often hidden? This is a really hard question for people in recovery from abuse, for therapists, and for researchers. In my case, I didn’t recognize one of my early childhood memories as a memory of abuse until I was in my fifties. Then physical memories started to ...
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Creativity and the Inner Child
Getting in touch with the inner child is a process. There are both terrible and wonderful things that the child needs to tell us about childhood feelings. Much of what the child needs to tell us is buried in the unconscious. We were scolded or told to “forget it!” Our needs and hurts were ...
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Creativity and the Inner Child
Getting in touch with your inner child is a process. There are both terrible and wonderful things that the child needs to tell us about childhood feelings. Much of what the child needs to tell us is buried in the unconscious. We were scolded or told to “forget it!” Our needs and ...
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Incest and the Inner Child
When a child growing up is traumatized by incest, usually he or she is forced to hide the trauma and “act normal.” The wounded part gets split off so the pain and shame can become secret, even to the child herself. Sometimes actual memories of abuse are suppressed or lost, while ...
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Therapy as Reparenting for Survivors of Childhood Abuse
When we are abused as children, we don’t get the protection and care that we deserve from our parents. We grow up not knowing what really good parenting is. My father was a charismatic character who had many good qualities, but also self-indulgent narcissistic ones that led him to abuse me sexually. My mother loved me, no doubt at all, but she was emotionally distant, depressed, and weak.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jane Rowan
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Elliot
"Living well is the best revenge" - G Herbert
Contacting Jane Rowan
How to get started
Find out about my Inner Child work on http://janerowan.com/index.htm. Read excerpts of my memoir The River of Forgetting on http://riverofforgetting.com/.
Join me on twitter @riverforgetting