Do you have regrets as a birth mother? What if we re-frame what regret is, then see how you feel?

Is someone you love facing an unplanned pregnancy? Try compassion.

A potential birth mother faces many mental challenges, but emotional healing is possible.

Healing for anyone, including a birth mother, is a process. While it is important to work toward happiness, sometimes we just need music and a smile!

As with soldiers in the military, open adoption requires a commitment even prior to developing a deep and close personal relationship.

Adoptive parents meeting a birth mother for the first time who might feel pressure to perform: remember reciprocity.

Adoptive parents meeting a birth mother for the first time who might feel pressure to perform: remember to just be yourself.

Healing as a birth mother after adoption can feel like a difficult feat. Yet, happiness is a choice as well as healing.

Healing is not something that I have been able to do in isolation. It has taken me utilizing friends, recovery programs, and professional support in order to walk this path. I want to outline some various forms of support and the benefits that I have found in them as far as healing as a birth […]

I have had to set up personal boundaries when it comes to visiting my son. While these visits are about us getting to spend quality, positive time together, that doesn’t mean that it is without emotion. Leading up to deciding that it is time for a visit, I become lonely. I start to ache in […]