Adoption Healing... a path to recovery for mothers who lost children to adoption

by Joe Soll, Karen Wilson Buterbaugh

Overview

Adoption Healing ... A Path to Recovery for Mothers Who Lost Children to Adoption is a unique book. The reader is provided with a description of the immaculate deception imposed on pregnant women and the ensuing tragedy of the loss of their babies to adoption and the profound effects on their lives. This is followed by different methods of healing the mother’s wounds, including inner child work, visualizations, healing affirmations, and anger management. Every chapter includes a Myths and Realities of adoption section, a summary of the chapter and exercises to do on one’s own.

"Injuries caused by separation of mother and child can, in time and with work, be dealt with effectively to the point where the loss will not interfere daily in our lives. Instead, the pain might rear it's head a few times a year. We may need to cry--get a hug and perhaps vent our anger--but the pain will pass more quickly each time."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011801402
Publisher:	Joseph M Soll
Publication date:	09/30/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	193
File size:	204 KB

About the Author

Joe Soll, L.C.S.W., D.A.P.A., the author of the original “Adoption Healing... A Path to Recovery” for adoptees is a diplomate psychotherapist and lecturer internationally recognized as an expert in adoption related issues and a former adjunct professor of social work at Fordham University Graduate School.

Since 1989, Mr. Soll has organized and coordinated ten international mental health conferences on adoption attended by mental health professionals. He has been an expert witness in court about adoption related issues and has lectured widely at adoption agencies, social work schools, mental health facilities and mental health conferences in the U.S. and Canada.

Mr. Soll has appeared on radio and television more than 300 times, given more than 130 lectures on adoption related issues and has been featured or quoted in more than three dozen newspapers, books and magazines. In 1994 he was portrayed as a therapist in the NBC made-for-TV movie about adoption, The Other Mother. He recently played himself in the HBO original movie Reno Finds Her Mom. He was featured in the 2001 Telly Award winning Global Japan documentary, “Adoption Therapist: Joe Soll”

His own story as an adoptee has been presented more than thirty times on Unsolved Mysteries. He has walked the 250 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C. six times to create public awareness of the need for adoption reform. He resides in Congers, NY and maintains an office in New York City. Joe has recently co-authored two mysteries, "Evil Exchange" and “Fatal Flight” with Lori Paris

Karen Wilson Buterbaugh is one of seven exiled mothers whose personal experience of surrender during the “baby scoop era” of the 1960s was audio taped for Everlasting,” a multimedia sound and video installation by artist Ann Fessler. The stories collected for this exhibition, which showcased the voices of mothers of loss from the1950s and 1960's, will become part of the women's oral history collection at Harvard University's Schlesinger
Library. Karen has been writing about adoption since 1997 and is the author of two articles, “Setting the Record Straight,” published by Moxie Magazine (April 2001), and “Not By Choice" published by Eclectica Magazine (January 2002).Karen is a co-founder of OriginsUSA ,a founding member of Mothers Exploited By Adoption and a co-founder of Mo

Editorial Reviews

"Adoption Healing is a testament to the terrible and long-lasting injustice that was done to so many women in our recent past, when 'authorities' snatched their babies and told these mothers that they would forget. Buterbaugh and Soll have crafted a deeply caring book that reaches out to mothers who will never forget." - Rickie Solinger, author of Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade, and Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion,

Rickie Solinger

"Adoption Healing needs to carry a warning: 'Beware! Read at your own risk. Long-buried feelings are bound to surface. Not advisable to read without support.' Adoption healing is not for the fainthearted. Some will say it's radical, and it is. But it is the very radicalness that leads you to your own truth -- to the place of healing." - Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother and Mary Queen of Scots; playwright of The Sacred Virgin

Carol Schaefer

“As an adoption reform activist, I found Adoption Healing to be the most straightforward and honest book I have ever read. The authors presentation of the material explains the myths and facts of the exiled mother’s experience in a most clear and concise manner. Adoption Healing is one of those very special books that is difficult to put down!” - Sandy Musser, Adoption Activist and Author of I Would Have Searched Forever & To Prison With Love

Sandra Musser

"This book is a 'must read' for every mother who lost her precious infant to adoption. It is the wake-up call for mothers who have 'sleep-walked' through their lives from the moment their babies were taken for adoption and given to 'worthier' people. It will lead her safely through the quagmire of painful, suppressed memory, out of the darkness of denied love, of exile, into the light of a life fully lived. It is essential reading for therapists. It will equip them to assist mothers i

Joss Shawyer

"Adoption Healing is a testament to the terrible and long-lasting injustice that was done to so many women in our recent past, when 'authorities' snatched their babies and told these mothers that they would forget. Buterbaugh and Soll have crafted a deeply caring book that reaches out to mothers who will never forget." - Rickie Solinger, author of Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade, and Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion,

Amazon.com - Rickie Solinger

"Adoption Healing needs to carry a warning: 'Beware! Read at your own risk. Long-buried feelings are bound to surface. Not advisable to read without support.' Adoption healing is not for the fainthearted. Some will say it's radical, and it is. But it is the very radicalness that leads you to your own truth -- to the place of healing." - Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother and Mary Queen of Scots; playwright of The Sacred Virgin

Amazon.com - Carol Schaefer

“As an adoption reform activist, I found Adoption Healing to be the most straightforward and honest book I have ever read. The authors presentation of the material explains the myths and facts of the exiled mother’s experience in a most clear and concise manner. Adoption Healing is one of those very special books that is difficult to put down!” - Sandy Musser, Adoption Activist and Author of I Would Have Searched Forever & To Prison With Love

Amazon.com - Sandra Musser

"This book is a 'must read' for every mother who lost her precious infant to adoption. It is the wake-up call for mothers who have 'sleep-walked' through their lives from the moment their babies were taken for adoption and given to 'worthier' people. It will lead her safely through the quagmire of painful, suppressed memory, out of the darkness of denied love, of exile, into the light of a life fully lived.

It is essential reading for therapists. It will equip them to assist mot

Amazon.com - Joss Shawyer