by Gayle Swift | Aug 23, 2023 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool
If you are an adoptive parent, you have probably experienced many encounters with the unexpected. For most of us, a significant and painful unexpected surprise was infertility. We expected we would become pregnant fairly easily. But that is not what happened. Instead,...
by Gayle Swift | Jun 28, 2017 | Blogs by Gayle Swift
For most of us the carefully wrought, precarious balance of our family systems depends on everything operating as expected. But what happens when an event smashes that equilibrium? This made me think about parenting in adoption. Beyond the “normal”...
by GIFT Coach | Apr 20, 2016 | Adoption Attuned Parenting, Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion
Friday marks the celebration of Earth Day which puts me in mind of nature and the cycle of life. Seeds. Roots. Growth. Pruning. Grafting. Without roots, a plant cannot survive. Without leaves, sunlight, water it cannot flourish. In many ways trees serves as an apt...
