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An edition of 20 Life-transforming choices adoptees need to make (2015)

20 Life-transforming choices adoptees need to make

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As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? Sherrie Eldridge is an adoptee and adoption expert, and in this book she draws on her personal experiences and feelings relating to adoption as well as interviews with over 70 adoptees. Sherrie reveals how you can discover your own unique life purpose and worth, and sets out 20 life-transforming choices which you have the power to make. The choices will help you discover answers about issues such as: Why do I feel guilty when I think about my birth parents? Why can't I talk about the painful aspects of adoption? Where can I gain an unshakable sense of self-esteem? Sherrie also addresses the problem of depression among adoptees and common dilemmas such as if, when and how to contact a birth mother or father. --Amazon.com

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Adoptees, Adoption, Psychology, Psychological aspects, Adoption, psychological aspects
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Table of Contents

Our lifelong search for truth
Caught unaware
Preparing to grow
Twenty truths and twenty choices that can transform
Thoughts about our birth parents are innate
Painful feelings about our adoptions are normal
Learning about adoption dynamics will help us relax
It may often seem like no one "gets it"
Share deep feelings only with "safe" people
We can control our anger : really!
We can get unstuck from our painful past
Many of us experience echoes of loss
An hour with a fellow adoptee is better than weeks of therapy
False guilt shouldn't stop us from considering a reunion
Search and reunion may become a top priority
We don't need to fear seeming ungrateful or disloyal
We must give up being pleasers
Taking concrete steps toward obtaining our pre-adoption history requires courage... we can do it!
When we feel overwhelmed we must be gentle with ourselves
Rejection might be part of your adoptee "rite of passage"
The word "rejection" may not be in the vocabularies of other birth relatives!
Letting go of our birth mother's original decision will set us free
We can discover our life purpose
We can help others find their way
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Edition Notes

Originally published: Colorado Springs, Colo. : Pinon Press, c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292).

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Twenty life-transforming choices adoptees need to make

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.82/98
Library of Congress
HV875 .E383 2015, HV875.E383 2015

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Pagination
294 pages
Number of pages
294

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OL27185234M
ISBN 10
1849057745
ISBN 13
9781849057745
LCCN
2014037466
OCLC/WorldCat
893857962

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