Lori Holden:
Adoption Expert, Learner, Interviewer, Educator, Author, Coach
Welcome to LavenderLuz.com. Here you’ll discover what I’m (still) learning about openness in adoption, parenting, yoga, living mindfully, thinking critically, and other topics that make me wonder and want to explore.
Lori Holden, M.A.
- Co-author of the groundbreaking book, Adoption Unfiltered.
- Author of the acclaimed adoption guide, The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
- Co-founder of the Root To Rise Yoga Teaching Method
- Host of the podcast Adoption: The Long View
- Adoption Expert , Educator, Coach
- Chief Civilizer at Tessa & Reed, Associates for 20 years (retired; now on contract basis with these two amazing young adults)
- Honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
Books by Lori
Are you mystified in relating well with an adoptee or a birth family member — or even your better self?
Do you seek guidance on becoming the adoptive parent your child needs you to be? Do you want help setting and patrolling boundaries in an open adoption? Do you wish to better connect with and serve your adoptee but not quite sure how?
Do you teach yoga and want to do it with more confidence and ease?
I have a book for you.
I write. I speak. I listen. I coach. I teach.
- Adoption Unfiltered
- The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
- The Root To Rise Yoga Teaching Method
- Free booklet via NCFA: Three Key Shifts to Bridge the Gap Between Birth Families and Adoptive Families for the Adoptees We Love
Podcast:
Adoption: The Long View
You’re invited to take a closer look at what happens after you adopt your child and begin parenting them. Your adoption journey isn’t over then — it’s just beginning.
In Adoption: The Long View you’ll hear from a variety of thought-provoking and influential guests as we help you make the most of your adoption journey. Like any trip worth taking, there will be ups and downs and challenges. Here’s what you’re going to wish you’d known right from the start. Ready? Let’s go.
Recent Articles
Adoption and the Bible: A Deeper Look with Amber Jimerson
Who uses “adoption” in the bible and who doesn’t? What possible misinterpretations might there be, and what do you need to know to avoid harm?
Allowing the Full Range of Adoptee Emotions: How Parents Can Help or Hurt
Have you ever wanted to make sure your adoptee doesn’t feel sad or mad about being adopted? What you need to know about adoptee emotions.
Colorado’s Baby Box Bill: My Testimony at the State Capitol
What is a baby box bill? What came up at Colorado’s senate hearing about it? Here’s my report from the floor, along with my testimony.
What We Get Wrong About Same-Race Adoption
Jennifer Dyan Ghoston, an adoptee and former police detective, shares her experience integrating herselves in a same-race adoption.
Open Adoption vs Closed Adoption
To the Woman Who Longs to Be a Mom and Who Says “I Want 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.