Claim Your Inner Grown-Up: 4 Essential Steps to Authentic Adulthood

by Ashley Davis Bush

In Claim Your Inner Grown-up, Ashley Davis Prend stands a tried-and-true concept on its head by offering a revolutionary, four-pillar program that dares readers to become adults.An inspirational guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452282500
• ISBN13: 9780452282506
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A great book for taking the next step

...In plain terms, Ms. Prend helped me to see what I've been doing wrong -- it's time to stop whining! My inner child needed a spanking. I'm putting her ideas to work in my life, and am really glad I found her book. I highly recommend this book for anyone who feels ready to accept the challenge of being an adult.

Medicine can taste sweeter than you think...

I was expecting a dry, medicine read when my well-meaning grandmother gave this to me. I thanked her instead. It took Ashley David Prend, A.C.S.W., to remind us that being a grown-up isn't unfun, uninspired and joyless, aka One Big Yawn. Quite the opposite! The inner grown-up is our link to liberating our spirituality, our ability to love more, and be more proudly productive (and playful). The most surprising part is that Prend doesn't decry the inner child as Evil or Bad - which is smart, since the inner child was the Muhammad Ali of self-help for quite some time and is a powerful reference point for most... Rather, she explains its importance, but its limits as well, and how it works in conjunction with the inner grown-up. This book was definitely informative, interesting, and original. It would inspire at least a few revelations in those who choose to pick it up, whether they like self-help books or not.

Good premise, some details a bit unusual

Overall, her ideas and the book itself are a good read. I can't say I agree with everything in the book, but it is a refreshing, and at times, a new look at psychobabble relating to the human condition as we go through tough times and not so tough times in life.