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Fireworks of Fear & Fury: Prying the Stories Out of Silence (part 2)

Cissy White — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 04:43:12 +0000

Part 1 was When Safety Isn’t the First Song. The story goes, my father chased my mother with a knife, as she ran with me in her arms. The story goes he was a violent drunk. The story goes he broke the ribs by punching a toddler off the twin bed. The story goes he […]

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“No Coincidence, No Story.” Lisa See Inspires

Cissy White — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:11:09 +0000

This is a guest post by my sister, Karen, who wrote about this amazing event and evening she organized. How does an author bring about hope? By reaching out to you directly when upheaval, activism, and anxiety seep into your world after another fatal, mass school shooting takes place again – (this time in Florida) […]

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Adoption Lifebooks, Beth O’Malley & Other Stuff Not Shown in This Is Us

Cissy White — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 23:55:24 +0000

This Is Us. It’s one of my favorite new shows. I love it for many reasons. One is because it has a main character who is an adoptee in the middle of a reunion with his birth family while still close with his adoptive family. Neither the birth family or the adoptive family is demonized […]

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Trauma-Informed Parenting: What Adoptive & Foster Parents Can Help Teach, Part 2

Cissy White — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:23:22 +0000

There are many adults with low ACE scores who parent children with high ACE scores. They are some of the best parents I know. They are often feisty and fierce advocates who tirelessly seek out support, strategies and solutions to make the lives of their children easier and better. The ones I admire most have […]

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Trauma-Informed Parenting: What Adoptive & Foster Parents Can Help Teach, Part 1

Cissy White — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:21:30 +0000

People sometimes feel bad for adoptive parents. They think maybe our kids say, “You’re not my real parents” on a daily basis and that we go to bed crying each night because we can’t have kids of our “own.”Do they think we had to “settle” for adoption or fostering? Do they worry we feel less than as […]

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