Posts Tagged ‘adults’
5 Tips: How to Help Someone Who is Struggling with Addictive Behavior
When you love someone who is struggling with an addiction, it can be heartbreaking, frustrating, and confusing to know how you might help them. As an addiction specialist for thirteen years, these are my top tips that I strongly recommend.
Read MoreAdoptee Grief Is Real
Adoptees often feel a sadness they can’t pinpoint. Adoption is rooted in loss, and adoptee grief is real. Yet we don’t hear much about grief in discussions about adoption. Here Lisa Coppola, LMHC shares her podcast about unacknowledged grief with Ken Barringer.
Read MoreDrama Therapy — Mental Health Awareness Month Spotlight
A person may feel the impact of the traumatic experience without having language to talk about it. Drama therapy can evoke, hold, and assist in the processing of feelings when there are no words. For adoptees, it offers an opportunity to change a person’s view of their life story.
Read MoreHow to Publish a Guided Journal – a Look Behind the Scenes
What’s involved with writing and publishing a book for adoptees? The following interview takes us behind the scenes at Boston Post Adoption Resources (BPAR), to learn how the author and this nonprofit developed the idea, design, and publishing plans for Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees, now on sale in paperback and ebook editions.
Read More“the Me you See” – Using Performance Art to Share a Personal Adoption Experience
Composer and percussionist Maria Finkelmeier will premiere her performance art “the Me you See” as part of the New Gallery Concert Series’ Adopt and Adapt concert. Maria reflects on the value of therapy and performance art in connecting to her personal story.
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