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Adoption Healing: A Path to Recovery for Mothers Who Lost Children to Adoption (Paperback)

by Joseph M. Soll (Author), Karen Wilson Buterbaugh (Author)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for birthparents to heal their pain!, April 28 2004
Joe Soll is an adoptee and social worker and Karen Wilson Buterbaugh is a birth mother. If you are a birth parent who is ready to get dig deep into your adoption pain and promote lifelong healing, then read this book. In each chapter the authors dispel the myths of adoption with the facts of adoption and offer exercises at the end of each chapter to help you process what you just read. These exercises include affirmations, visualizations, inner child work, and simply processing the feelings of rage, anger, and sadness. The first section, The Missing Baby, focuses on the pain of separation of parent and child. The second section, Reclaiming the Self, encourages you to face the harsh reality that the most important and sacred relationship was severed-that between parent and child. They then offer strategies and suggestions for healing and the issues of reunion are investigated as part of the process of dealing with adoption loss. The authors bring home the fact that therapists should read this book as most mental health professionals are not equipped or qualified to adequately address adoption loss issues in a birth parent. In the third section, Getting Help, the authors encourage you seek help in the form of support groups and qualified therapists-preferably both-and how do go about finding the right therapist/group. The fourth section, The Challenge to Heal, really focuses on inner child work. The authors feel that you have to go back to the trauma, feel it once again, process it, and move on. The fifth section, Appendices, offers ideas on how to continue the healing and make a difference in your life. This book will separate the men from the boys-or the women from the girls-but as a psychologist myself, I believe the only way out of the pain is through the pain. This book is a good tool that can be accessed again and again when feelings emerge or when long buried issues resurface, as they undoubtedly will.

Kasey Hamner, M.S., School Psychologist, adoptee in reunion, author of "Whose Child?" and "Adoption Forum"

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5.0 out of 5 stars the shameful aftermath of adoption separation, Nov 24 2003
By "patrice68" (Australia) - See all my reviews
Waves of relief washed over me as I turned the pages of Adoption Healing to see that the myths surrounding mothers forced to surrender their babies to adoption was at last being publicly exposed. Buterbaugh and Soll have cut through the comforting theories and societal brainwashing by adoption promotors to lay bare the shameful truth of the adoption industry's predatorial collective mindset that remains indifferent towards the deep psychological and emotional harm it has invoked through its promotion of adoption to unsuspecting young women. That a book about healing from adoption ever needed to be written at all is a sad indictment of adoption as a community service which tolerates such cruelty towards young mothers while sympathising with the plight of infertility and using adoption as its cure. This book will be both confronting and simultaneously comforting to any mother who reads it and recognises that Adoption Healing has finally given all mothers who have been silenced by the trauma of adoption loss, a voice.

Dian Wellfare
Adoption Researcher, Counsellor and Founder Origins Inc.
Supporting people Separated by Adoption
Sydney, Australia.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Adoption is a social problem, Nov 18 2003
By Joy Miller (New Mexico, USA) - See all my reviews
"Adoption Healing: A Path to Recovery for Mothers Who Lost Children to Adoption" is a tremendous reading experience. It takes the reader to a painfully poignant point of empathy with the ostracized, unwed mother. The book illuminates a profound paradox in life: a sanctioned pregnancy is a joy which is celebrated in every respect-- an unsanctioned pregnancy can be devastating to the pregnant woman and all touched by her plight. This is the most succinct and powerful book on the adoption experience as a social problem that I've ever seen. As an adoptee, I thank the authors for writing it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great For ALL who Lost Children to Adoption
In that the experience of loss is very similar for all mothers affected by adoption separation, the book is applicable for all, not just those of the baby scoop era. Read more
Published on Nov 2 2003 by Laurie Frisch

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing Words
"Adoption Healing...A Path to Recovery for Mothers Who Lost Children to Adoption" is one of those rare books that not only addresses the history and pain of a forgotten group of... Read more
Published on Oct 28 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, compassionate and insightful
An excellent, well researched book that can be read on many levels. As a resource book, it exposes adoption myths with great love and respect for women who lost their children to... Read more
Published on Oct 28 2003 by Lina Eve

5.0 out of 5 stars This book will change your life!
It is an amazing book ... so sincere and honest ... and incredibly truthful. We must remember the mothers!
Published on Oct 28 2003 by Celeste Billhartz

5.0 out of 5 stars The doors unlocked & the memories came flooding out
I'm a birthmother from the 60s who reunited with my daughter 6 years ago. ... The psychological information by Joe Soll was priceless. Read more
Published on Oct 28 2003 by cynthia kerr

5.0 out of 5 stars The truth revealed and trauma healed
This book deals with the most basic trauma that a mother endures when she loses a child to adoption and it also focuses on healing of the wounds of this trauma. Read more
Published on Oct 27 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars to the sad teenager that never got heard
WOW! WOW! WOW!This remarkable and explicate healing book spoke to the teenager that never got heard when she was being coerced into losing her baby girl. Read more
Published on Oct 27 2003 by Linda A. Webber

3.0 out of 5 stars Written more for mothers who had chlidren taken unwillingly
I found this book very helpful in regards to the pain most all birthmothers feel.The respect we never got and were not aloud to grieve our loss. Read more
Published on Oct 24 2003 by Diana Slick

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