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  • How Adoptees and Foster Kids Can Prepare for Birth Parent Reunions

    How Adoptees and Foster Kids Can Prepare for Birth Parent Reunions

    An adoptee’s or foster kids’ reunion with birth family members can seem like a milion emotions all at once. It is easy for the reunited adoptee or foster child to feel overwhelmed, like a loser and a victim. Some say you can’t prepare for an adoption reunion, but adoptee veteran Sherrie Eldridge begs to differ.…

  • An Adoptee’s Search for the Missing Face

    An Adoptee’s Search for the Missing Face

    An adoptee searches for a face in a crowd that resembles her own. If we could only see the face of the lost birth mother/father, the hurt would magically disappear. The grief would be resolved and the life-long repercussions of traumatic adoption loss would be mitigated. Oops…adoptee fantasy. True, those who have found the missing…

  • Thinking Logically Seems Impossible for Attachment Disordered Kids

    Thinking Logically Seems Impossible for Attachment Disordered Kids

    Dear friends through adoption… Last week, Bob and I were painting my office. I got all the color chips and showed him the best colors. Within two hours, I changed my mind, and by the next morning, again. The following day, other colors and then back to the first. “I just can’t track with you!”…