Let Us Be Greater: Reframing the Eight Points of Pain Adoptees Have the Power to Overcome

THE PATHWAY TO HEALING AND LIGHT FOR ADOPTEES

Adoption is a lifeline of support and opportunity for countless people, but it can bring challenges and emotional conditions that are often silenced or left unaddressed, including PTSD, risk of suicide, and fear of abandonment. Author Michelle Madrid has experienced these challenges as a foster child and international adoptee and now as an adoptive parent and adoptee-empowerment coach. Michelle has learned that the complex emotions and psychological turmoil of adoption -- including feelings of involuntary exile, anger, distrust, confusion, and unworthiness -- are best healed through identification, exploration, and understanding. Written with compassion and authenticity, Let Us Be Greater will help adoptees and their families feel heard, seen, and understood as they work to build open, fulfilling, and healthy relationships.

Michelle Madrid is a former foster child from the UK, international adoptee, mom by adoption and birth, Emmy-nominated TV news journalist, and adoptee empowerment life coach. She is an Angels in Adoption(R) Honoree, a prestigious recognition given by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), and has been inducted into the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame for her work in adoption. She is also host of the Electricity of You podcast, which shares transformational teachings of resilience to uplift and inspire the adoption and foster care community. She lives in Los Angeles.

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