Adoption Trauma

Do you want to take a step towards confidence, acceptance, and well-being? This audiobook is my inward look at adoption trauma with some helpful tips that I have used over the past six years to help me overcome the feelings of unworthiness, anger, fear, and rejection that plagued me for 50 years.

The Secret Daughter is the tale of Nikki Carlson, an adoptee whose search for her roots sets her on an unbelievable thrill ride and emotional odyssey that forever changes her. Adopted as a toddler into a big game-hunting Minnesota family and raised on the flat prairies of the Midwest, Nikki’s life is wholly unremarkable. Haunted by the mysteries of her origins, once Nikki comes of age, she begins to search for her biological roots. What she uncovers is more surreal and twisted than anything she could have imagined.

Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can, sometimes, add to the problems these families face, prolonging the healing process for all.

Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others underlies most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that emphasizes working in the present moment. NARM is a somatically based psychotherapy that helps bring into awareness the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional.

Adoption isn’t a fairy tale. It’s a storm... breathtaking, brutal, holy, and heartbreaking all at once. In this deeply intimate memoir, Stephanie Parker opens her family’s story with a honesty that is both courageous and disarming. She invites you into the moments most families hide: the fear, the trauma, the tears behind closed doors, and the fierce love that refuses to give up even when everything in you feels shattered. This is not a book about perfect parents or easy answers. It’s a book about the nights you cry on the bathroom floor, wondering if you’re strong enough... and ...

The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the 20 complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love.

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! The New York Times bestseller—for fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See! From the bestselling author of Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer’s powerful WWII novel follows a woman’s urgent search for answers to a family...

Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but the reality is that many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma and issues of identity and belonging. Adoptees often spend the majority of their youth without the language to explore the grief related to adoption or the permission to legitimize their conflicting emotions. Adoptee and counselor Cameron Lee Small names the realities of the adoptee's journey, narrating his own and other adoptees' stories in all their complexity. 

Healing isn't possible, though, without first uncovering the hurts—starting with adoption's central players: adoptees, who are so often in pain, suffering from what the latest brain science validates as the long-term emotional effects of separation trauma. By encouraging others to vulnerably share their stories, the authors discover that adoptees aren't the only ones in the adoption constellation who are hurting. Birth parents regularly shut down after being shut out by adoptive parents. 

“I was two when the woman I called Mummy told me, ‘You came out of another mummy’s tummy.’ I grew up thinking that my birth mother didn’t want me. I assumed there must’ve been something inherently wrong with me – why else would a mother give up her baby?” In 1974, Liz Harvie –...

When Sandra Leigh was seven years old, she fell into the role of protector of her mother and three younger siblings. One winter night, she ushered her mother out of the house during one of her father’s tirades, and then snuck her back into the dark home through a window. Sandra was used to events like these; what she wasn’t used to were the mountains and nature surrounding her new home in West Virginia.

Three unforgettable romances. Three devoted brothers. One heartwarming series you'll want to binge. Discover the complete Anderson Brothers series in one collection! Filled with family, friendship, second chances, and happily-ever-afters, these clean, emotional romances feature relatable characters, heartfelt humor, and swoon-worthy heroes. Finding Ford One secret changes everything. When a teen pregnancy turns Hannah's world upside down, she makes a decision that will alter the lives of everyone she loves. As hidden truths come to light, the Anderson brothers find their loyalty tested, old...

The Door That Locked From the Outside is part 1 of the retelling of an adoption nightmare. the author LaTrecia, also known as Trish, is an adult survivor of childhood abuse of every form. After being adopted with her 2 bio sisters by a child grooming pedophile and an abusive/passive mother, she details the horrors and eventual release of her and her 5 siblings. As Trish comes to the age of realization, she finds her nightmare won't end because what's to come is a lifetime of lessons and obstacles she will have to overcome.

In 1955, an American farming couple saw a film about the thousands of Korean children orphaned by the Korean War. Through a special act of Congress, they were authorized to adopt eight of these children - which marked the advent of international adoption. Since that time, there have been over 170,000 children adopted out of Korea to more than 30 countries. Korean adoptee Glenn Morey and his wife, Julie Morey, spent six years interviewing 100 Korean adoptees from around the world. This stunning Audible Original is comprised of 15 first-person accounts....

The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachment trauma, and navigate challenging behaviors and triggers Children who have been adopted and/or shuttled through the foster-care system experience trauma at a much higher rate than other kids...

Becoming a foster parent might be the most challenging, most rewarding, and most important calling, but nothing can truly prepare you for the reality of caring for God's most precious children. However, the good news is you're never alone. Based on her personal experience-from her own trauma-filled childhood to becoming a four-time foster mom-author Lisa Baptist offers inspiration, guidance, humor, and practical advice for those on the same journey with this faith-focused memoir/guide to foster parenting. Told in an easy-to-read, conversational style with helpful insight into the foster ...

★★★★★ "An interesting take on humanities future!" - Reader Review ___ A fresh take on science fiction and a glimpse at humanity through the eyes of an alien who doesn't know what 'family' is, until he finds one! "Humans are the only known intelligent species to actively create 'Found Families' in the form of parents, children, siblings, and more. If a human starts spending more time with you and initiating physical contact, they have probably adopted you." These were the words that caught my ears when attending the most prestigious university in my quadrant as a minor in alien ...

She wasn’t his daughter. But she made him a father. "An emotionally engaging, compelling story readers can’t put down." — Midwest Book Review When Matthew’s brother dies, leaving behind a premature newborn daughter, one decision changes everything. A lifelong bachelor with no plans for parenthood, Matthew must choose: walk away—or become a father overnight. Unconditional is an emotionally powerful story of unexpected fatherhood and chosen family. Perfect for readers who love heartfelt, emotionally rich stories about parenthood, family, and the bonds that shape a life. Meeting baby...

With a bachelor's and master's degree in education and over 30 years of experience, plus training in trauma sensitivity, author and mother of two, Jennifer Alushan, is ready to give parents and caregivers proven techniques to effectively understand and authentically interact with children so the healing process can begin.

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.