Growing Intentional Families Together Blog
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Baby Dreams
Most people have a childhood dream of becoming a parent. Children spend hours in fantasy play, pretending to be like...
So You Are Thinking of Adopting…
Adoption is about providing parents for children versus finding children for parents. Whether adoption is an idea...
Scaling Your Child’s Walls
It takes heroic effort to remain calm during a verbal attack launched by an out of control child. The natural...
Holding It Together During the Firestorm
During this past month we've explored the way walls function in our lives to protect and defend us. It is important...
Help Me to Cope
During this past month we've explored the way walls function in our lives to protect and defend us. It is important...
Dismantling Walls to Build Family Success
The unsettling behaviors of our traumatized children can trigger our own traumas and beliefs. We unconsciously...
Boundaries Can Cut Both Ways: Shutting You Out & Shutting Me In
This is GIFT's second blog post to explore the role of boundaries in family life. In discovering how the world works,...
Guest Blogger: Christina White
Our guest blogger is Christina White. Christina is a survivor of a traumatic childhood in which she was subjected to...
Differences and Talents
I was speaking with an adoptee in his late twenties. He has a healthy relationship with his adoptive parents. Since...
Coping with Rejection and Anger
Recently I shared a conversation with an adult who was adopted as a newborn. She described the soup of emotions that...
