About the author (2014) Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., is the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is also a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and director of the National Complex Trauma Treatment Network. When he is not teaching around the world, Dr. van der Kolk works and lives Boston.
Trish Diggins
An award-winning designer, writer, author, creative director, branding guru, and web geek, Trish has experience in the corporate, television, and web arenas. An adopted person and adoptive mother, she lives with her husband and daughter in Fleming Island, Florida.
Trish’s first adoption-related work was published in Adoption Today magazine. Since then, she has co-authored four adoption-related books:"Found: Two Adopted Friends Search for Their Birth Families" with Sherri Craig-Evans"Ladybug Love: 100 Chinese Adoption Match Day Stories" with Kat LaMons"The New Crunch-Time Guide to Parenting Language for Chinese Adoption" with Kat LaMons "The New Crunch-Time Guide to Parenting Language for Haitian Adoption" with Kat LaMons
Trish also was editor for Vivienne Strauss' first book, "Little Birds Big Adventures: The Bird Collages of Vivienne Strauss" and has edited and designed more than 50 additional publications.
Lifelong friends – both adoptees – decided they would take a chance and search for their birth parents using online DNA kits and social media. It turns out, that was the easy part. What happened over the next five years was much more difficult – trying to forge relationships with a multitude of related strangers while navigating decades of invisible and unexpected emotional land mines. This is what they foundWhether you're connected with adoption or not, "Found" is a unique and timely story that sends readers on a roller coaster of emotions regarding being adopted, building relationships, family, friendship, pluses and pitfalls of online DNA searching and social media, parenthood, what makes a family, and much more. Written in an easy, friend-to-friend style, "Found" is an honest, insightful look into the authors' adoption and search experiences. The book also includes several additional short stories of others that searched for lost family after hearing of the authors searches, and their own insight into their own experiences with reunion
REVIEWS:
“Honest and authentic.”– Sherrie Eldridge, author of “Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew”
“An intriguing account of a search for biological kin...These stories make for a dramatic reading experience... Craig-Evans and Diggins engagingly reflect on many adoption-related issues, such as what creates a sense of connection, or why people choose to accept or reject a biological bond... on the whole, their book effectively shows the rewards and risks of the process.” – Kirkus Reviews
Tiffany Brearton
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Carrying deep childhood wounds
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This interactive book study walks you through practical and spiritual steps tow
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Predestined
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