20 Life-transforming choices adoptees need to make
By: Sherrie Eldridge
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781849057745
Subjects: Adoptees; Adoption; Psychology; Psychological aspects
Other titles: Twenty life-transforming choices adoptees need to make
Description: 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
Notes: Originally published: Colorado Springs, Colo. : Pinon Press, c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292).
Table of contents: title: Our lifelong search for truth; title: Caught unaware; title: Preparing to grow; title: Twenty truths and twenty choices that can transform; title: Thoughts about our birth parents are innate; title: Painful feelings about our adoptions are normal; title: Learning about adoption dynamics will help us relax; title: It may often seem like no one "gets it"; title: Share deep feelings only with "safe" people; title: We can control our anger : really!; title: We can get unstuck from our painful past; title: Many of us experience echoes of loss; title: An hour with a fellow adoptee is better than weeks of therapy; title: False guilt shouldn't stop us from considering a reunion; title: Search and reunion may become a top priority; title: We don't need to fear seeming ungrateful or disloyal; title: We must give up being pleasers; title: Taking concrete steps toward obtaining our pre-adoption history requires courage... we can do it!; title: When we feel overwhelmed we must be gentle with ourselves; title: Rejection might be part of your adoptee "rite of passage"; title: The word "rejection" may not be in the vocabularies of other birth relatives!; title: Letting go of our birth mother's original decision will set us free; title: We can discover our life purpose; title: We can help others find their way; title: Appendix; title: Notes.