Adoption, Parent, and Life CoachingYou 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 …
I went looking for ideas outside of myself. I discovered it’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it. The dreams dearest to my heart are right here.”
Anne of Green Gables
When I read this, it made me wonder what it really meant and is it possible to get what you need within yourself. …
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 …
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 …
However, there is one story that I have been too scared to re-write.
This story is …. finding my missing younger birth sister who was not adopted with my older brother and I from South Korea. I think she was about two or three years old when she went missing, but I am not positive since I don’t have any …
How many of you have made a New Year’s resolution and then shortly after the New Year, it failed? I know that I have.
According to a study done by Strava, the social network for athletes, they found out that the second Friday in January is considered the “Quitter’s Day.”
Several years ago, I heard about identifying a word for …