The Power of Nonjudgmental Adoption Counseling for Every Member of the Adoption Triangle
For years, I sat across from clients who carried adoption secrets like stones in their pockets. Some were birth parents who had never spoken the word "relinquishment" aloud since their child was placed. Others were adoptees navigating a sense of self split between two families. Many were adoptive parents exhausted by the weight of expectations. What struck me most was not the depth of their pain, but how rarely they had been given permission to speak freely about it. That is
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For years, I sat across from clients who carried adoption secrets like stones in their pockets. Some were birth parents who had never spoken the word "relinquishment" aloud since their child was placed. Others were adoptees navigating a sense of self split between two families. Many were adoptive parents exhausted by the weight of expectations. What struck me most was not the depth of their pain, but how rarely they had been given permission to speak freely about it. That is
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