Sunday, August 2, 2009

post adoption support

I am cultivating a fantasy of working post-adoption support. The idea seems natural, it feels like a good fit. I need to learn how to speak my truth without having a holier-than-thou attitude, though; that also comes naturally to me, and it tends to get in the way.
The empathy and kinship I feel with other adoptees is unbounded by age or generation. I feel as equally connected through my adoptee experience with my kids' friends who are adopted as much as with present adult adoptees.
I need to ruminate on how to connect with adoptive parents in a way that does not bring up defensiveness. How to partner with them to create a healing outcome?

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