I. Your inner conversations -- Have you ever heard a conversation in your mind? -- Who is your inner parent? -- Who is your inner child? -- Listening to your inner conversations -- II. Inner conflicts -- Inner conflicts: problems with your inner conversations -- Resolving inner conflicts: one man's story -- Eight steps of inner conflict resolution -- Self-parenting your inner conflicts: your future -- III. The self-parenting exercises -- Opening up the dialogue between your inner parent and inner child -- Advancing the self-parenting exercises -- More ways to use the self-parenting exercises -- Self-parenting: final notes.