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The morning after returning from a "big deal" feels like exhaustion and exhilaration mixed into your morning cup of milk. You know it tastes really good and you kind of need a nap. I returned last evening from the Beyond Adoption: YOU Retreat 2.0. This is the second retreat I have attended with Pamela Cordano... Continue Reading →
It is a beautiful Saturday morning in Las Vegas. We have had rain the past two days and the left over coolness is still in the air. As I write, I find myself in a Starbucks with my chai tea and my thoughts. It is busy here. I see an older couple, talking softly to... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, my brain disconnected from my heart and my body. It was as if I was a computer and I crashed. It was a "perfect storm" kind of day. When everything was perfect, happy, forward looking. Then, in a matter of moments, everything went down, spiraling and spinning and twisting in my... Continue Reading →
I got off track somewhere in the middle of November. I had made a goal to write every day during National Adoption Awareness Month....and here it is January 1, 2019 and I have not written in a long time. There is a reason. My dad fell, he spent some time in the hospital and rehab,... Continue Reading →
Today we welcome Kristin Jones, CMHC of Tradewinds Counseling as a guest blogger. She has written a powerful letter to women considering adoption. Dear pregnant mother considering adoption- If you are thinking about adoption as an option, you are most likely experiencing an unplanned pregnancy. I imagine it would be incredibly difficult to be faced... Continue Reading →
I had the best dream about what I was going to blog about today, (Saturday) but then I woke up, the dog was scratching on my door for breakfast and my brain lost all the good blogging thoughts I had. I scrolled through Facebook and every post, I swear, was by an adoptee friend lighting up... Continue Reading →
These are just a few of the things that have been said to me over the years: What is, "You look like your adopted mom / dad?" What is, "I bet you are glad your mother wasn't pregnant after Roe vs Wade!" (seriously, this was said to me....) What is, "I know an adoptee and... Continue Reading →
Many adoptees have been told in their lives that they are a mistake. That their birth mother "got in trouble," and that this "trouble" was a "mistake." What the adopted person hears is - "YOU are / were the trouble," and "YOU are / were the mistake." Those who are reading and who are not... Continue Reading →
Adopted children and adults have as sense of vulnerability that many in the non-adopted world do not have. This vulnerability comes from being removed from their biological family and then not being fully anchored in a family. This type of vulnerability is different than the type that allows a person to be open and share... Continue Reading →
