OUR WHY FOR
AdoptionBecause there is a great need in the world, why wouldn't we adopt. Simply put, we've never had a reason not to step into meeting the need.
Because we have been given so much by God, why wouldn't we want to share that blessing. Simply put, we've never had a reason not to share the blessings. Each one of our nine jewels, biological and adopted, is a sacred gift entrusted to us. They are precious jewels. We are adoption and foster care advocates and we are therapeutic brain-based trauma parents advocates. 15 years ago the work of TBRI and the book "The Connected Child" radically transformed our family, and it continues to this day. Both the book, ongoing education, and the TBRI practitioner training Maria went through in 2009 provided the tools, framework, and renewed heart posture to help our family thrive in the midst of attachment challenges, trauma, medical diagnoses, surgeries, a cancer journey, IEP's and 504's, blindness, mental health challenges, and mental illness. The complexities, loss and grief within adoption is real - as are the miracles, beauty and blessings. Adoption holds the tension of both. |