by Gayle Swift | Jun 20, 2026 | Adoption as a communal experience, Adoption as a Family Experience. Changing Systems, Adoption Attuned Parenting, Adoptive family life, Blogs by Gayle Swift, Guest Blog Dr. Adam Anthony, Strengthening Family Relationships
Globally, June marks NPE Awareness Month. While people might be unfamiliar with the acronym, many have experienced the shock of unanticipated DNA results. They discover that their parents are not who they believed they were. NPE. Not Parent Expected or Non-Paternity...
by Gayle Swift | Jun 12, 2026 | Adoptioin Attunement, Adoption as a Family Experience. Changing Systems, Adoption reunion, Uncategorized
Today’s blog was written by our guest, Dr. Adam Anthony,* founder of EmpowerMENt™. He was moved to write this blog in response to one of our training videos about our Tri-Spective concept. What the TriSpective Approach Taught Me About My Own Reunion I recently...
by Gayle Swift | May 14, 2025 | Adoption constellation, Adoption realities
This month’s vlog/podcast includes several short videos of triad members talking about mothers, motherhood and being mothered. Adoption weaves a complicated web of intersecting perspectives around motherhood. So, we anticipated that the conversation might...
by Gayle Swift | Aug 13, 2024 | Adoptive parenting, Navigating open adoptions, Tri-relational Interconnectivity
In their most recent vlog birth mother Kim Noeth, adoptee Sharon Butler Obazee, and adoptive parent Sally Ankerfelt interviewed Brian De Vos, an adoptive dad of two now-adult children. Brian, is the son of an adoptee as well as an adoptive parent. This provided...
