Navigate Adoption Relationships with More Clarity, Confidence, & Connection
Do you love an adoptee? Do you parent an adoptee? Are you figuring out either an open adoption or a closed adoption situation? Are you in a dynamic that is influenced by adoption? Feeling conflicted within yourself about navigating any of this?
Here you’ll find resources for building healthier and more open relationships—with healthy boundaries—so that those navigating adoption can feel seen, respected, and supported.
Lori Holden, Adoption Guide
Adoption is more complex than we’ve been led to believe. Having a guide who understand the terrain can be a comfort. For 20 years, I’ve been figuring it out for myself, and then helping others find their way, too.
Through my books, podcast, coaching, and workshops, I offer insight and support to better understand yourself and others in your adoption constellation.
- Co-author of Adoption Unfiltered™
- Author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
- Creator of the Root To Rise Yoga Teaching Method
- Host of Adoption: The Long View
- Honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
You’re in the Right Place if…
- you’re unsure how to navigate a relationship with your child’s birth family
- you want to support your adoptee—but don’t always know how
- you feel stuck between what you’ve been told…and what feels right
- you want more openness, but with healthy boundaries
- you’re ready to do adoption differently
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
Help is available
Here are six clear and accessible options to support your aspirations:
Podcast:
Adoption: The Long View
Adoption doesn’t end at placement. If evolves over lifetimes.
This podcast brings you a variety of thought-provoking and influential guests to help you better understand adoption relationships and dynamics.
Deepen your Understanding of Adoption
Explore past articles on openness in adoption, adoptee perspectives, and building healthier adoption relationships.
Latest
How I Became Persona Non Grata in the Largest non-Country in the World.
I’ve been missing on Facebook and Instagram. Why? A not uncommon story of antisocial social media and really stupid fake intelligence.
6 Ways Adoption Misconceptions Break an Adoptee’s Heart & Spirit
An article in a TX magazine inadvertently reveals 6 ways that show how society hurts adoptees—without meaning to, of course. Let’s do better.
Dear California Legislators: 3 Reasons to Vote for Adoptee Rights
When it comes to adoptees and their original birth certificates, California legislators should vote on the side of adoptee rights. Here’s why.
National Adoption Month May Not Mean What You Think It Means
If you think National Adoption Awareness Month exists solely to celebrate adoption, you are not fully informed (and if you love an adoptee, you need to be).
Why Strive for Openness in Adoption?
(whether you can have contact or not.)
To the Woman Who Longs to Be a Mom and Wants a Closed Adoption
I hear you when you say “I want a closed adoption.” I was there, too, and I had to unlearn a few things everyone “knows” about adoption.
The Future of Adoption
Reader Question: What is the future of adoption regarding openness? We’ve moved from completely closed adoptions to semi-open (pictures and letters sent through the agency,
Kohl’s Adoption Video Brings Out the Either/Or Brigade
A commercial shows reunion between an adoptee & his birth mom. SO many viewers are incensed! I hold the either/or mindset responsible.
“Real” in Adoption and how it Splits our Babies
When we talk about who is and isn’t real in adoption, we split the baby. Fortunately there is a better alternative to this Either/Or mindset.