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description: Gold Medal Illumination Book Awards  National Indie Excellence Awards Winner  Readers' Favorite Silver Medalist  Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards Honorable Mention Searching for Mom is a disarmingly honest mother-daughter story.Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother struggled with her faith lived the effects of intergenerational wounding and felt an inherent sense of being unwanted that drove her to perfectionism suicidal ideations and fantasy mothers. When she became a mom her search to find and become the perfect mother intensified ... until her mothers death launched a spiritual epiphany. Saras perspective as an adoptee offers insight for anyone in the adoption constellation. And her hopeful story with themes of belonging family forgiveness and being known are universally relevant to all mothers and daughters. PRAISE FOR SEARCHING FOR Easterly examines her relationships with her birth and adoptive mothers in her engrossing debut ... a difficult story with brute honesty and impressive introspection. Publishers Weekly Easterlys memoir contains a great deal of valuable information that may be helpful to adoptive parents and to adoptees who feel a loss of biological connection ... A complicated but vividly portrayed search for identity. Kirkus Reviews As an adoptive mom four times over Im hungry for the perspective of adult adoptees. Sara Easterlys Searching for Mom is powerfully delivered. Saras vulnerable writing backed up by research and supported by scripture allowed me a valuable glimpse into the secret places in the hearts of my children. My prayer is that through the questions doubts and tears my kids will come to see as Sara did that they are 'unusually rich in mothers.'Shannan Martin author of The Ministry of Ordinary Places and Falling Free I entered into Sara Easterlys story expecting a riveting narrativewhich it is to be sure. What I didnt expect was a story that would speak to me so personally. Searching for Mom is on the surface a memoir about adoption. Beyond that though its also a book about our common quest for wholeness meaning connection belonging and truth. Sara explores these deeply universal themes with unflinching honesty authenticity and vulnerability which means this book will speak straight to your heart and soulwhether you are an adoptee or not.Michelle DeRusha Author of True Letting Go of Your False Self to Uncover the Person God Created Fiercely personal Saras memoir exposes the cracks in her formerly sugarcoated adoption story. Sara perseveres in seeking the truth revealing the painful wounds of adoption loss. We follow her journey to healing with both her mothers which unexpectedly culminates in a newfound understanding of Gods mothering.Haley Radke Creator and host of Adoptees On podcast Sara Easterly has created a fearlessly beautiful story of a daughters search for a kind of perfect love she actuallyin the end and much to her own surprisefinds.Anne Heffron Author of You Dont Look Adopted and founder of Write or Die A touching story of raw daughter-mother attachment with all its imperfections and heartaches together with surprising twists and redemptive forgiveness. It rings true because it is truly delivered.Gordon Neufeld Ph.D. Founder Neufeld Institute and best-selling author of Hold On to Your Kids
language: English
title: Searching for Mom: A Memoir
publisher: Heart Voices