Healing and Recovery
Features
- Tending the Garden
- I Said It Out-Loud
- Success in Healing
- Being Adopted Doesn't Bother Me
- A Promise Kept
- A Wall Against the Pain
- Out on Top:
- Sharing A Wonderful Child
- Healing Our Souls
- Using Knowledge To Teach Others
- A Letter to an Angel
- Grieving: Natural, Normal, and Necessary
- Letting Go
- Tough Times Get Better
- Is Anyone Out There?
- Birth Mom Still Searching
- Winter Hearts
- Relinquishing Me II
- Responses and Comebacks
- The Unknown
- Moving On
- Therapy: Making an Informed Choice
- Birthparent Grief
- More than a Memory
- In a Room Filled With Others
- Many Hands: An Adoptee's Healing Journey
- Can You See The *Good* In Good-byes?
- The 'How-To' of Healing
- I Believe
- The Man by The Window
- Lesson In Life
- What Adopted Kids and Adults Think About Being "Special"
- PARENTAL GUIDELINES FOR HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH LOSS
- Don't Go in Alone
- Adoptee and Birthmother:
- Nothing Wrong with Moving On
- Damaging Words, Secret Information, and Severed Ties...
- Closet Assumptions (Part Two)
- They Wanted Me Anyway
A Letter to an Angel
Author tells of her sorrow, and then how she was comforted by another birthmother.... [more]
Grieving: Natural, Normal, and Necessary
Author discusses adoption and the grief that can be associated with it.... [more]
Letting Go
This article is woven from many families' dreams, nightmares, and the common experience of "letting go" when children leave home under less-than-ideal conditions.... [more]
Tough Times Get Better
An adoptee tells of her life and about putting things in order.... [more]
Is Anyone Out There?
Author tells of finding a friend who understood her grief and then of setting up a service to help other birthmothers.... [more]
Birth Mom Still Searching
Birthmother shares her concern for the well-being of her daughter.... [more]
Winter Hearts
A wife reminisces on the entry and exit of her husband's "birth daughter", an eleven-day event that changed the relationship between she and her husband forever.... [more]
Relinquishing Me II
Author tells her story of relinquishing her daughter.... [more]
Responses and Comebacks
Author discusses productive ways to respond to comments that may have caused some internal strife.... [more]
The Unknown
The author's search for what she longed to know, and coming to terms that it might be better to leave some things unknown for the time being.... [more]
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