{"product_id":"9798216368151","title":"Adoption Unfiltered Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAdoption Unfiltered\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eRevelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSara Easterly | Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard | Lori Holden\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamily \u0026amp; Relationships \/ Adoption \u0026amp; Fostering\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most  directly involved in adoptions: adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth  parents.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdoption Unfiltered\u003c\/i\u003e  authors Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth  parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview dozens of adoptees,  birth parents, adoptive parents, social workers, therapists, and other  allies-all sharing candidly about the challenges in adoption. While  finding common ground in the sometimes-contentious space of adoption may  seem like a lofty goal, it reveals the authors' optimistic aim: working  together with truth and transparency to move toward healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHealing  isn't possible, though, without first uncovering the hurts-starting  with adoption's central players: adoptees, who are so often in pain,  suffering from what the latest brain science validates as the long-term  emotional effects of separation trauma. By encouraging others to  vulnerably share their stories, the authors discover that adoptees  aren't the only ones in the adoption constellation who are hurting.  Birth parents regularly shut down after being shut out by adoptive  parents. Adoptive parents often struggle with unique parenting  challenges and hidden insecurity, feeling the need to hide the fact that  they are not the Super Parents they led the agency to believe they  would be. Across the industry as a whole, misinformed and even unethical  practices abound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdoption Unfiltered\u003c\/i\u003e  models the importance of adults in adoption working together in the  spirit of curiosity and empathy-to better support adoptees and their  first and adoptive families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Easterly\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author of books and essays. Her spiritual memoir, \u003ci\u003eSearching for Mom\u003c\/i\u003e,  won a 2020 Illumination Book Award gold medal, among many others.  Sara's adoption-focused articles and essays have been published by\u003ci\u003e Psychology Today, Dear Adoption, Feminine Collective, Godspace, Her View from Home,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeverance Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e,  to name a few. Sara is the founder of Adoptee Voices and resides  outside of Seattle with her husband, two daughters, and a menagerie of  rescued fur-babies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard\u003c\/b\u003e  is the Director of Advocacy and Policy at AdoptMatch, where she works  on public policy issues impacting all adoption-triad members. She's a  birth mother who is passionate about raising the standards in adoption  to better serve the children, mothers, and families affected by family  separation. Adoption has been a monumental part of her entire life:  Kelsey is the daughter and granddaughter of adoptees. She has worked at  various agencies and law firms in the adoption field and is also a  co-host of the first-ever birth-mom podcast headed into its third  season, Twisted Sisterhood. Kelsey resides in Northern California with  her husband and daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori Holden\u003c\/b\u003e,  a veteran parent of two young adults, writes at LavenderLuz.com and  hosts the podcast Adoption: The Long View. She's the author of the  acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eThe Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole\u003c\/i\u003e  (recommended by People magazine in 2021), written with her daughter's  birth mom and featured on adoption-agency required-reading lists across  the country. She has keynoted and presented at adoption conferences  around the US and Canada, and her work has appeared in magazines such as  \u003ci\u003eParenting \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAdoptive Families\u003c\/i\u003e.  In 2018, she was honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional  Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). 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