Tag: Lovesherrie
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How Adoptees and Foster Kids Can Grieve Loss
“Select items that are representative of each loss and put into the box. (Small items can be used, photos, mementos. The item can be as simple as a button).
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Does the Bible Validate An Adoptee’s Primal Wound?
With all the changing terminology and philosophy about what an adoptee experiences at relinquishment, author Sherrie Eldridge takes us to the core meaning of what it really means. She reviews expert opinions and then gives a Biblical clue you won’t want to miss.
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A Gift Only Adoptees Can Give
It’s a gift adoptive parents can’t give, birth parents can’t give, or adoption professionals can’t give. Only other adoptees can give it to one another. I’ll never forget sitting next to an adoptive mom at an adoption carnival where I was speaking. At the end of the day the time came for the children and…
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Helping Adoptees and Foster Kids Identify and Describe Hidden Loss
Yep, we adoptees and foster kids are well guarded when it comes to talking about sadness and loss. Parents will gain hope from this post on what they can do to help their child move through it successfully.
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The Granddaddy Fear of Many Adoptive and Foster Moms
This post deals with a common fear among many adoptive and foster moms-that their child will someday prefer the birth mom and go and live with her. The answers presented are understanding the dual identity of the child, making verbal boundaries, and the right timing.
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An Unexpected Prescription for Grieving Adoption Loss
It’s so easy to go negative about adoption, thinking that ranting about our pain will get us one step closer to healing. Speaking up and out is good, but there is an additional step that needs to be taken to become the people we were created to be.
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Must Adopted and Foster Kids Fake A Smile for Gotcha Day?
Yikes! I don’t know where Gotcha Day came from! It’s the buzz among adoptive parents, but how do their adopted and foster children feel about celebrations on this day?
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When Adoptees & Foster Kids Get Shamed for Depression
It is possible to add insult to injury by labeling an adoptee’s or foster child’s battle with depression as a spiritual problem. Please don’t.
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Why Adopted and Fostered Kids May Cry Old Man Tears
Why would a seemingly insignificant object trigger pieces of my adoption puzzle that stayed dormant for years? And, how could I solve the grief puzzle it surfaced?
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An Adoptee’s Translation of “You Are Special”
What is it that adoptive and foster parents must be aware of when telling their kiddos they are special? Find out the exception here.
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How To Explain Adoption to Your Adopted Child
There is an art to telling adopted children their story. It is a certain way that snuffs out toxic shame and helps us adoptees go on after a trauma or multiple traumas. It truly is an art. Without the right artful approach, your child may silently reaffirm the lie that “my life is a mistake.”…