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Assumptions Culture Life Coaching Relationships Validation

Relationships are more than people

You may think relationships are based solely on your family, friends, or community, but you may also want to consider the relationships you have with your culture and race and how they may impact your personal relationships as well as your identity.

Your relationship with your culture and race is often defined by your family and/or the community you are …

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Adoption Assumptions Culture Parent Coaching Relationships Transracial

INTEGRATION OF TWO WORLDS part 2

How can you help them feel more secure and have a sense of belonging in their new home and community?

One way of doing this is through Integration. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, they define integration as an “action or process of successfully joining or mixing with a different group of people. Cultural integration is blending of two or …

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Adoption Assumptions Culture Parent Coaching Relationships Transracial

INTEGRATION OF TWO WORLDS

Imagine you are a seven-year-old child, surrounded by people just like you, racially and ethnically. They teach you the beliefs, language, food, music and traditions of their culture, your culture; but suddenly, in the blink of an eye everything changes.

Can you imagine how your seven-year-old self would feel if everything you knew in your short life suddenly disappeared? What …