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Use this worksheet to gently reflect on the past year and set intentions for the one ahead. Take your time and write whatever comes to mind. There are no right or wrong answers.
Using the right adoption language is critical to building a culture of respect, affirmation, and understanding in the adoption community. It helps:
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Reduce stigma and negative perceptions.
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Affirm adoptive families and birth families.
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Encourage healthy identity formation for adoptees.
Life is full of unexpected turns, and how we choose to see those moments determines our growth, peace, and overall well-being. This guide gives you five powerful questions to reflect on, helping you turn obstacles into opportunities, let go of guilt, and step confidently into your story.
Positive psychology offers language and tools that can help anyone touched by adoption, adoptive parents, birth parents, adoptees, and those who support them, move beyond surviving to a place of flourishing.
For those of us raising children whose stories include adoption, we simply have one more lens to look through while raising our families, a lens shaped by added questions, conversations, and considerations that adoption can bring. While we may not be able to shape every circumstance or predict every challenge, we can return to the steady ground of what is within our reach: our thoughts, our actions, and the community we choose to build around us.