Adoption Healing

It’s never too late for a miracle. When an old woman begs God to let her see the daughter who had been taken from her arms almost eighty years before — could her impossible prayer come true? In the summer of 1928, sixteen-year-old Minka was looking forward to a sewing class picnic. This...

A Somatic, Regulation-First Guide for Therapists Treating Developmental Trauma—with foreword by Waking the Tiger author Peter Levine When a client’s trauma began before they had words—in the womb, in infancy, in their earliest relationships—talk therapy alone often can’t reach it...

Am I Meant to Become a Parent? Why Can’t I Conceive? What Is My Unborn Child Trying to Tell Me? In this reassuring, supportive, and accessible book, leading clairvoyant and medium Walter Makichen offers guidance to prospective parents eager to create a warm, nurturing environment for their...

In this groundbreaking book, adoption advocates Betsy S. Kylstra, Lisa C. Qualls, and Jodi Jackson Tucker-an adoptee, a birth mother, and an adoptive mother-reveal that adoption is rooted in both loss and redemptive victory. And healing is needed by all in the adoption triad-adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents-to experience restoration and wholeness.

For the woman who has spent years caring for everyone else while quietly disappearing in the process, You Weren’t Born to Fit In is the moment you finally get to exhale. The rules are changing. The old ways of living, giving, shrinking, and disappearing no longer belong in the life waiting for...

Blending my own story with original songs and hymn arrangements, this audiobook shares a journey from fatherlessness to adoption into God’s family, and how I found “home” in a relationship with the Father through Jesus. I invite you also to consider the limitless love of God, your Creator, and the healing and hope that can be found in Him. God has done the miraculous in my life, more than I could ever have imagined, blessing me with a Christ-centered marriage of nearly 42 years (and counting), and the gift of two daughters. "Nothing is impossible with God." (Luke 1:27b)

USA TodayBestselling Book She’s never left her home in the mountain wilderness of the Canadian Rockies—until now. Little did she realize this journey would change her life in every way. The mountain wilderness of her family’s home in the Canadian Rockies is all Hannah Grant has ever known...

Katina King is the reigning teen jiu-jitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata, India and is reluctant to take on his future. Since he knows nothing about his past, how is he...

National Bestseller Winner of the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into...

In 1871, the British enacted the Criminal Tribes Act in India, branding numerous tribes and caste groups as criminals. In This Land We Call Home, Nusrat F. Jafri traces the roots of her nomadic forebears, who belonged to one such ‘criminal’ tribe, the Bhantus from Rajasthan.This affecting...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy’s mother couldn’t cope, but it wasn’t until Lucy reached eight years old that she was...

“Is it just me, or do you also feel like you’re caught in the middle of a mystery movie?... our families are the main characters mixed up in a plot that involves forty-year-old secrets, undercover agents, and a hidden trunk.” Lorry Scott has faced a tumultuous life as a single mother and...

If you’re wondering if God can truly move in the life of someone with all the odds stacked against her, look no further than Tori Hope Petersen. Tori grew up in the foster care system, a bi-racial child in a confusing and volatile world. Growing up with a mentally ill mother and living in...

"Being a good parent is a skill that is acquired over time, one that requires constantly adapting to the rapidly changing times. In today’s world, where academics, extra-curricular activities and distractions in the shape of numerous gadgets make heavy demands on children’s time, it...

An abortion survivor and leading pro-life spokeswoman tells her inspiring and sometimes surprising story of redemption, healing, and forgiveness, offering grace and support—not shame—to women facing the most difficult decision of their lives. “Claire’s heart-wrenching and inspiring story...

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* From award-winning journalist Kathryn Blaze Baum, a powerful account of one woman's quest for answers—and a miracle—from the big business of fertility. After having their first child without issue, Kathryn and her husband were trying for a second. She suffered...

He’d had this nagging feeling she’d been keeping something from him... After suffering through a traumatic pregnancy with her twins, Stephanie Victor is eager to leave those memories behind her. But after fourteen years, she’s pregnant again. And she’s not thrilled. The emotional turmoil...

“Do I love God as I should?” “Does he love me?” “Does he really declare me righteous and fit to meet him, even though I still sin?” “How can I be sure?” Dan Cruver has wrestled with these questions, often to the point of exhaustion and despair. Through the trauma of losing a son...

What if the healing we long for isn’t found in returning to the past, but in learning how to carry it forward with wisdom, faith, and honesty? Bridging Resilience is a gentle, honest guide for adoptees, former foster youth, and the caregivers and leaders who walk beside them. Written by a...

Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but the reality is that many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma and issues of identity and belonging. Adoptees often spend the majority of their youth without the language to explore the grief related to adoption or the permission to legitimize their conflicting emotions. Adoptee and counselor Cameron Lee Small names the realities of the adoptee's journey, narrating his own and other adoptees' stories in all their complexity.