
Gayle H. Swift, AACC


What Cancer Taught Me about Being Adopted

Building Adoptive Family Relationships that Last beyond Childhood

Birthdays: A TriSpective Timeline

June, Fathers, NPE, and Its Aftermath

On Grief, Boundaries, Intimacy, and Adoption

The Unique Responsibilities of Adoptive Parenting

Lived Experience Offers Insights for the Adoption Constellation

An Adoption Evolution: from the Dark Ages to an Adoption Attuned Approach

Being an Open and Safe Space

Open Adoption Isn’t Easy AND It Was So Worth It!

Navigating the Holidays When Adoption Is Part of the Picture

What Happens When Beliefs are Reexamined or Questioned?

The Wisdom of 50+ Years as an Adoption Therapist
A “Good” Adoption: Perspective on the Paradox of Adoption
Are You Asking the “Right” Questions?
8 Things That Foster Success in Reunion and Open Adoptions
On Fathers in Adoption—Having One and Being One
The Many Facets of Mothers in Adoption
When Adoption Grief and Losses Are Ignored and Minimized
Blinders and Rose-colored Glasses
Love Is a Gift
On Belonging and Parental Loss in the Adoption Constellation
The Gift of Less
Is Adoption Beneficial?
Supporting Adoptees at School
Insights on Open Adoptions
Are We There Yet?
A Father’s Presence Matters
Adoption, Expectations, and Mothering
Reflections on Community and Powerful Conversations
Recognition Matters in Adoption
Talking About Adoption Matters

Talking through Tough Times
Adoption. We’ve GOT to talk!
Set Your Parenting Course for 2024

Adoption: Possibility, Parenting, and Coaching

Informed, Adoption Attuned Parenting Is a Gift

Adoption Matters. Talk about It.
Sustaining Regulation and Building Resiliency
Growing Adoption Success
Preparing for the Unexpected as an Adoptive Family
Learning through Extracurricular Activities
School Bells Ring Soon. Get Ready! Set Goals.
Finding Your Way as a Family
Fathers Matter
Making Family Memories
Ways Your Family Can Live Easier This Summer
On Mothers and Mothering
Find Calm in the Midst of Chaos

Recipe for a Happy Family

Perspective on Gift-giving for Adoptive Families

Celebrate Family Wins: Start the Year on a Positive Note

Create A Memorable Holiday: Focus on Strengthening Connection

Five Goals for Growing Your Perspective of Adoption

Facing the Storms of Family Life

WHY DO I WANT TO BE AN ADOPTIVE PARENT?

Simon Benn Interviews Coach Gayle H. Swift

6 Important Parenting Lessons: Balancing Risk and Safety

Offering GRACE Mother to Mother on Mother’s Day
Adoptive Families Need Peer Relationships with Others Steeped in the Adoption Experience
Adoption Matters; Talk about It
5 Tips for Course-correcting Family Dynamics
Money Talks: The Connection between Spending and Values
Intention, Assumption, Reality: Vital Distinctions for Families
Actions, Words and Family Values: Disconnected or Aligned?
Will 2017 Be Smooth Sailing for Your Family Or …?
On this Day of Your Birth…
Rear View Mirror, Gratitude and the Lens of Love
Adoptive Families Give Thanks

Adoption Attuned Parenting Essentials, the Podcast Series
When Family Remains a Dream: National Adoption Month
Adoption, Fear and the REAL Factor, Part 3
Adoptive Families and the “REAL” Factor, part 2
Truth and Adoption. Viewpoints Coexist & Differ
Adoptive Families: Real or Fake or What?
A Cow Patty With Frosting Still Stinks
Talking about Adoption Matters
Yearn to Succeed? Be Like A Baby
Empathy and the Intentional Family
Planks, Platforms & Parenting
Listening to Understand, Not to Refute
Listening and Speaking: Two Sides of Relationship Communication
Repairing Relationship Breaches
On Making Mistakes and Repairing Them
Prevent Suicide–Talk about It
Gardenias: the Sweet Fragrance of Memories
Protecting Our Kids from Abuse
Roots … Grafted Branches … Weathering the Storms
Detoxing Language: Becoming Conscious of the Power of Words
Smoke and Mirrors–Fun or Foul Play?
Advantages at the Starting Line
The “Good Luck” of infertility and/or Adoption
Family Traditions: Good Morning, Good Morning!
Parenthood: Our Magnificent Obsession
Fielding Intrusive Questions
Feeling “Othered” — Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Adoption
Time Is A River That flows Forward
Perspectives on National Adoption Month
Growing Intentional Families
Admitting Others into Your Post-adoption Life
Names, Adoption and Identity

