People with Care Experience
(adoption & foster care)
Adoptees & people from foster care are on a search to find self and belonging while figuring out how to live with a sense of deep grief and loss.
Find support and community with other adoptees who have similar experiences. Available resources are designed from the adoptee’s point of view, to validate their voice as their story unfolds and they discover who they are becoming.
Validation
We are all looking for validation in some form or another, in one way or another. For an adult adoptee, validation means affirmation that an abnormally hard, uncontrolled life-altering event happened at the very beginning of life; that something is the way it shouldn’t have been and our community sees and empathizes this, even if it’s not understood. From one adoptee to another, your feelings are valid. Your emotions are welcome, and your story is important.
Belonging
Life may have taken a challenging turn at one point in time for you as an adoptee. Support from your surrounding community, whoever that may be, is vital to growing into healing and wholeness. Feeling heard and accepted, while genuinely knowing you are loved and wanted is a game changer. Your sense of belonging and connection to something beyond yourself means that someone else probably expressed care for you that hopefully, we can demonstrate to other adoptees along the way.
Community
Fellow adoptee, you are not alone. You’re not alone in your grief, fears, wishing it was another way, or experience. You’ve endured a great loss, and some of us here can relate. Though we may not walk in the same shoes, we can be each others advocates, cheerleaders, and family. We must champion one another onward and help each other foster a greater sense of felt safety, healthy identity, and healing. Friend, we hope you find a little more community here as you journey ahead towards deeper fellowship.
My Story Book: My Life Story by Me and for Me
Baby books and case files can’t tell a life story. My Story Book is our innovative workbook and cornerstone resource to help you capture & preserve your own story, in your own words, for your own sake, which are based on concepts of life story work. My Story Book is available on Amazon, in both a Kid’s Edition for ages 5-14, with essentially the same content in an Adult Edition for ages 14 and up. It is also available in Spanish.