by Gayle Swift | Aug 13, 2025 | Adoption Attuned Parenting, Adoption Attunement, Adoption realities, Adoption success
Every month this blog post takes a look into some of the points made during our recent vlog/podcast. Our featured guest this month was Dr. Sharon A McNamara, a licensed psychotherapist and an adoptee. She “believes that most children have some version of relational...
by Gayle Swift | Jul 9, 2025 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool|Blogs by Gayle Swift|Blogs by Joann DiStefano|Faith and Values|General Discussion|Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors|Strengthening Family Relationships, Uncategorized
8 Things That Foster Success in Reunion and Open Adoptions Today I would like to focus on my perception of how Elizabeth Barbour, an adoptee, author and an adoptive parent has successfully managed both her reunion with own birth family and her daughter’s...
by Gayle Swift | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Reflections On Fathers in Adoption—Having One and Being One In this month’s vlog conversation, Tony, Thom and TJ discussed their thoughts and feelings about fatherhood in adoptive families. Tony is an adoptee raised by two lesbian...
by Gayle Swift | May 14, 2025 | Adoption constellation, Adoption realities
This month’s vlog/podcast includes several short videos of triad members talking about mothers, motherhood and being mothered. Adoption weaves a complicated web of intersecting perspectives around motherhood. So, we anticipated that the conversation might stir...
by Gayle Swift | Apr 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
It has been said, that everyone involved in an adoption comes to it on their knees. All are buffeted by the pressures of the seven core issues in adoption. All have significant “stuff” to handle. If not addressed, things remain unresolved and...
