While You're Waiting

Have you begun wondering if you can survive the adoption waiting game? Are you no longer enjoying the little things in life due to ruminating about the adoption? The agony of waiting, lost matches, reevaluations, or false starts can begin to dampen the perspective adoptive parent’s outlook. Well trained adoption professionals advise “don’t keep your life on hold,” yet you sit on pins and needles. An emotional vortex looms around the corner of uncertainty. While You’re Waiting highlights the opportunity available to you during this time that is bookended by adoption decision and gotcha day. Ambiguous waiting yields a harvest of chances to get your (inner) act together for your future child and for yourself. The author compassionately challenges you to replace the "no end in sight" feeling with: Meeting the unspoken fears you have about adoption; enjoying the present moment in place of being stuck in a moment; putting an end to “real mom” or “real dad,” and “baby of my own” talk; loosening the grip of perfection and having all the answers; traversing the gateway to parental attunement; waiting well and getting well to parent well.

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While You're Waiting

Have you begun wondering if you can survive the adoption waiting game? Are you no longer enjoying the little things in life due to ruminating about the adoption? The agony of waiting, lost matches, reevaluations, or false starts can begin to dampen the perspective adoptive parent’s outlook. Well trained adoption professionals advise “don’t keep your life on hold,” yet you sit on pins and needles. An emotional vortex looms around the corner of uncertainty. While You’re Waiting highlights the opportunity available to you during this time that is bookended by adoption decision and gotcha day. Ambiguous waiting yields a harvest of chances to get your (inner) act together for your future child and for yourself. The author compassionately challenges you to replace the "no end in sight" feeling with: Meeting the unspoken fears you have about adoption; enjoying the present moment in place of being stuck in a moment; putting an end to “real mom” or “real dad,” and “baby of my own” talk; loosening the grip of perfection and having all the answers; traversing the gateway to parental attunement; waiting well and getting well to parent well.

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While You're Waiting

While You're Waiting

by Viv Matveeva
While You're Waiting

While You're Waiting

by Viv Matveeva

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Have you begun wondering if you can survive the adoption waiting game? Are you no longer enjoying the little things in life due to ruminating about the adoption? The agony of waiting, lost matches, reevaluations, or false starts can begin to dampen the perspective adoptive parent’s outlook. Well trained adoption professionals advise “don’t keep your life on hold,” yet you sit on pins and needles. An emotional vortex looms around the corner of uncertainty. While You’re Waiting highlights the opportunity available to you during this time that is bookended by adoption decision and gotcha day. Ambiguous waiting yields a harvest of chances to get your (inner) act together for your future child and for yourself. The author compassionately challenges you to replace the "no end in sight" feeling with: Meeting the unspoken fears you have about adoption; enjoying the present moment in place of being stuck in a moment; putting an end to “real mom” or “real dad,” and “baby of my own” talk; loosening the grip of perfection and having all the answers; traversing the gateway to parental attunement; waiting well and getting well to parent well.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683092803
Publisher: Difference Press
Publication date: 01/19/2021
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

With her long history in mind body science and as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, Viv aims to support others in understanding their motivations, increasing emotional well-being, unlocking creativity, and discovering what it means to lead an examined life. She lives in Dallas, Texas with her two brave and wildly funny Russian teenagers.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Love Letter To Expectant Parents Everywhere 1

Chapter 2 Waiting, Stuck In Waiting, Still Waiting 5

Chapter 3 What Does It Mean To Be A Real Mom 19

Chapter 4 Rewind, The Adoption Option 29

Chapter 5 Rejection On Gotcha Day 41

Chapter 6 (Bad) Advice From A Russian Social Worker 53

Chapter 7 Be Well, Parent Well 65

Chapter 8 Loving A Hurt Child 77

Chapter 9 Resilience, Fragility and Love 89

Chapter 10 Rupture and Repair 99

Chapter 11 Resolve To Revolve 111

Chapter 12 The PostScript 119

Acknowledgments 127

Thank You 131

About the Author 135

About Difference Press 137

Other Books by Difference Press 141

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