About SoulFilling
SoulFilling elevates the adoption conversation by teaching individuals, educators, professionals, and organizations how to bring more clarity, balance, and growth-centered tools into the way they navigate adoption. Through practical content, workshops, and webinars, I focus on building the strengths, skills, and connection that help people approach adoption—and life—with heart, perspective, and well-being.
Adoption—like life—can be complex, and it can be beautiful, and everything in between. It’s not about ignoring any part of our story, but about living all of it with more strength, clarity, and intention.
I started SoulFilling because the adoption landscape is evolving. With adoption-competent therapy, stronger laws, more open adoptions, and more triad voices gaining visibility, this is the right moment to introduce flourishing, resilience, mindset, and emotional well-being into the adoption conversation.
Positive psychology teaches us that resilience, strong relationships, meaning, perspective, and post-traumatic growth can be strengthened over time. SoulFilling helps people build that reservoir through practical tools, reflective practices, and learning experiences that support personal, educational, and professional settings.
If this mission resonates and you want to bring stronger, growth-centered adoption conversations into the work you do, the next step is simple: explore how SoulFilling can partner with your organization to strengthen the communities you serve.
I’m Francine Apy — writer, speaker, positive psychology practitioner, and a lifelong believer in people’s capacity to flourish.
My work is shaped by a deep faith in greater good and purpose, which guides how I show up, serve others, and help people flourish.
For more than three decades, adoption has shaped my life and perspective. As an adoptive parent, I’ve lived the realities, questions, and growth that come with navigating adoption across time. Those experiences have grounded my work in compassion, clarity, and a deep understanding of what supports real human flourishing.
Alongside my adoption experience, I spent over twenty years in HR leadership, where I saw firsthand that people carry their whole selves into the workplace. Their wellbeing, families, identities, and stories show up with them, and when organizations understand this, they create environments where people truly thrive.
I’m now expanding this work through graduate studies in Applied Positive Psychology, exploring the science behind resilience, wellbeing, and human development. This training complements both my adoption experience and HR background, shaping the SoulFilling Flourishing Framework, an approach to growth rooted in reflection, empathy, and real-life application.
Welcome to SoulFilling, where real experience, real insight, and real growth come together.