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I am an author, adoptee, and adoptee advocate who is downright passionate about sharing this good news with the entire adoption triad!

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Category: Inherent Loss

  • How Adopted Kids Want Their Parents To Handle Their Pre-Adoption Loss

    How Adopted Kids Want Their Parents To Handle Their Pre-Adoption Loss

    It’s painful to enter into your child’s suffering. It’s so much easier to assume that all is well inside your child, especially if she hasn’t manifested any obvious problems. But all adopted children have been wounded, simply because they experienced a profound loss before they were embraced by their new family. The first thing your…

  • The Unspoken Raw Realities All Adopted Kids Experience

    The Unspoken Raw Realities All Adopted Kids Experience

    For an adopted child, the dance floor is the first mother’s womb, for there the unborn child gains a sense of belonging, a sensation of safety in the warm sack of water, and a sense of rhythm from the mother’s beating heart. These dance floor elements are what every child expects after birth–a continuation and…