I have been asking the question Who Am I? for many years but more so in the past few years since turning 50. I have come to the conclusion for me that how I might identify myself falls into three different categories for the most part. The first being the more obvious labels society and [...]
Filed under: Adoption Coaching, Infertility, Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on August 30th, 2012 | No Comments »
The past four years since I started my business Parenting by Adoption and my work as an Open Adoption Coach, I worked hard to learn all I could stuff into this mid life brain about the process of open adoption. I worked with another adoption professional that had been pivotal in our adoption. I read [...]
Filed under: Adoption Coaching, Domestic Open Adoption, General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on January 24th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I speak about open adoption when I meet with new clients or do a group presentation. Our family has an open adoption with our daughter’s first/bio family. It has varying degrees of contact – some we see face to face regularly and some we stay in touch via Facebook, email etc. This open relationship has [...]
Filed under: Adoption Coaching, Domestic Open Adoption, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on June 16th, 2011 | 7 Comments »