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Goodbye Hypervigilance: Healing Adoptee Worry by Lora K. Joy; illustrated by Laura Foote

Goodbye Hypervigilance is a true story about my experience realizing how adoption trauma had put me on high alert my entire life. My need to control things was catastrophic. Luckily, I have an adoptee competent therapist who helped me identify this old coping mechanism. My hope for Goodbye Hypervigilance isRead More →

NoBODY Looks Like Me: An Adoptee Experience by Lora K. Joy; illustrated by Laura Foote

NoBODY Looks Like Me represents what it is like for an adoptee to grow up in a family where they are not genetically related to anyone. There is a longing to know where your eyes, nose and hands come from. When an adoptee decides to search for biological family, seeingRead More →