Only three books can win… It’s an intensely-paced emotional ride, and will move the heart of any reader.The message of hope, faith and perseverance continues to inspire readers to ask themselves: Who am I and what am I capable of?
Category: Adoption & Foster Care
Author, Janelle Molony, is asked tough questions, live on social media! There is so much to tell! Molony talks about coming to “the end of herself,” finding strength, deeper faith, and high-quality relationships.
Post-placement grief, or “post-adoption depression,” is becoming more widely recognized in the mental health field. As parents adjust to their new roles as parents, the devastating knowledge of childhood trauma, loss of control in one’s life, and the potential for major shifts in one’s natural support system, are a few of the reasons new parents should take advantage of the clinical, therapeutic supports available to them.
Holy moly! Young adoptees are in a mess of a world at the moment! Now we are dealing with outrageous matters of skin color, months of the pandemic quarantine dragging on, homeschooling longer than anticipated, loneliness and fear… on top of separation from biological family, residuals from trauma or abuse, and the lifelong identity-issues which are present in adoptive relationships. It’s a whole heap of heaviness that can be hard to talk about… (Guest Feature)
Ashley Rhodes-Courter, the author of the New York Times bestseller, Three Little Words, and international speaker, joins Janelle Molony for a coffee date to talk motherhood, adoption, books, and more!
Janelle @AdoptionToLife pairs up with Richard @Adoption.Adventures for a back-and-forth on what we’ve learned from adopting an older child from foster care in our respective countries.
In this FREE two day event, Janelle Molony talks on managing the wait, working with the agency, preparing for matches, and tending to your marriage along the way.
Mother’s Day was coming up. “It’s supposed to be MY day, now!” This thinking was wrong, wrong wrong. We should never consider our role as an adoptive parent to be a “replacement” for a biological parent.
When you boil it all down to this gut-checking moment, what do you learn about yourself and your heart? Building a family through adoption is not a task to approach lightly. May love and wisdom lead you: together, not separately. (VIDEO INCLUDED)
I’d thought… one day, when the “story” is done being written… I could help the next person. Encourage them. Strengthen them. And so on. But now, what I’ve learned is that EVEN in the middle of the chapter… even when we are about to turn a page that will surprise us all… my story matters NOW.