A Place I Didn't Belong: Hope for Adoptive Moms

By Paula Freeman

Book Overview

A Place I Didn't Belong validates the sometimes devastating experiences of adoptive parenthood while offering hope, practical coping strategies, and spiritual renewal for the journey ahead.

The trajectory of unmet expectations, our children's compromised beginnings, and the wounds we carry into our adoptions conspire to take us to a place we didn't belong. Insights on emotional healing help us reclaim hope for our adoption journey.

This is not a how-to or a ten-easy-steps-to successful parenting program. It's about real life, real women, and real struggles. It's about relationships and community. It's about reclaiming ourselves as women when adoption dreams shatter. It's about a journey that begins in our mother's heart, and delivers us to the place we do belong - into our Father's arms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988593165
• ISBN13: 9780988593169
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Carpenter's Son Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A must read for adoptive moms (and dads and bio kids!)

This book is amazing. It's making me be gut level honest with my thoughts and feelings, and making me face them head-on. Adoption isn't pretty all the time (or even much of the time), and this helps you to come to terms with it. It's so good that I'm ordering copies for my bio kids; they'll just leave the parenting aspect out (someone REALLY needs to write a book for bio kids and adoption!). I highly recommend this book for all adoptive family.