Tag: difficult past
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It Doesn’t Just Melt
The residual trauma inherent with kids from hard places is… ugly. It often gets shoved into a sort of emotional closet on which the door doesn’t quite shut. And it spills out in some scary ways from time to time. And much like the huge, ugly piles of snow and ice… it doesn’t just melt.
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Behavior Is Language
From our earliest moments of life outside the womb, our only means of expression—of communicating some need we feel—is simply to cry. Our brain doesn’t yet recognize words and formulate sentences. We depend entirely on the only language we have, the language of behavior.
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Fancy That
When we approach our interactions with people with curiosity, seeking to learn more about their experience and perspective, we can begin to test our assumptions and more effectively meet them where they are.
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Both/And
This day—this beautiful day is a microcosm of the “both/and” nature of this work of adoption. It is filled with BOTH beauty AND sorrow. It is BOTH joyful AND tragic. It is BOTH a celebration AND a grieving moment.
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Leftoverture
It’s this sort of strange ballet, at once joyous and tragic, sorrowful and celebratory, sweet and very deeply sour.
Fostering Grace 