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Adoptive Family Milestones–Ordinary and Extraordinary
During the last month or so, our family has celebrated several family milestones. My son turned thirty. My husband...
Adopting Joy
Adopted families, like those formed exclusively by birth are fundamentally the same: parents and children love and are...
Adoption and Gratitude
My children are now adults –twenty-eight and thirty years old. (Of course, in my heart, they will...
Mothering: What I Learned About Open Adoption By Writing a Book on Open Adoption
Lori Holden: Reader questions about open adoption relationships During a discussion of my book, The Open-Hearted Way...
Mother Love Is So Much More Than A Single Day
Since September, I have had the privilege to be in relationship with my thirty-year–old...
Kids, Social Cues and Personal Boundaries: Learning to Speak the Language of Interaction
In last week’s blog we explored the Mirroring and Belonging level of the Relationship Pyramid and...
Mirroring and Belonging: Building an Emotional Vocabulary
Mirroring and Belonging: Building an Emotional Vocabulary When we introduced the relationship pyramid and discussed...
The Gift of Belonging: Roots and Wings
What It Means to Belong About two weeks ago, Lynn Cooper--one of my partners at GIFT--and I (Joann DiStefano) attended...
Nurturing the Seeds of Attunement
Winter still holds much of the country in its chilly grip. Easter/Passover have come and gone. Spring is on the...
How Star Trek: The Next Generation Helped Me Navigate Open Adoption
For most of my life, through school and college and dating and infertility treatments, I was mostly guided by my head....
