by Gayle Swift | Apr 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
My son celebrated his thirty-fourth birthday recently. For the first time in several years, his birth mother was not here to join us in person although she most certainly was present in spirit, in my own heart and most assuredly in our son’s. Over the years...
by GIFT Coach | Feb 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
In our previous blog, we discussed the value of Love Languages and how this strategy can design more effective communication. Learning to “speak” in a channel other than our own preferred default style requires Intentionality. As is evident from our name,...
by GIFT Coach | Jan 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
During the previous two weeks, we have explored some techniques for creating connection, injecting playfulness in family life, using meditation and laughter. Sometimes intentional control of one’s body postures and/or laughter meditation will not reset mood....
by GIFT Coach | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Mother’s Day is a particularly poignant one for adoptive moms. (It goes without saying, that it is a special and poignant day for birth mothers as well!) Mother was a title we yearned for. Once accomplished, it was a role cherished all the more because it was so...
by GIFT Coach | May 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of adultery and unwed motherhood, Hester Prynne was required to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing as punishment for her sin. This publicly branded her and allowed the community to...
by GIFT Coach | Apr 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last week we visited the concepts of the family Emotional Bank Account and the Family Memory Banks. Having explored the idea for a week, what changes have you observed? Once you set the intention to accent the positive, what kinds of things did you notice in both...
