How do we respond rather than react? What role do our heads and hearts have in all this? How do we navigate the tough things our kids say to us and the tricky emotions we go through? By doing our own work and understanding our thoughts, feelings and who we are. Lori has a wonderfully clear way of sharing her experience and learnings. It's a particularly profound and insightful episode. Relax and enjoy.
Here's a link to the episode I mention in the podcast https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com/episodes/with-joy-carter-Ni_rUkb3
Lori Holden writes at LavenderLuz.com and hosts the podcast Adoption: The Long View. She’s the author of the acclaimed book, The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole, written with her daughter’s birth mom and featured on required reading lists with adoption agencies across the United States. She has keynoted and presented at adoption conferences around the US, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Parenting and Adoptive Families. In 2018, she was honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), nominated by Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado. She and her husband live in Denver, Colorado with their two young adult children.
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