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Before You Were Mine: Discovering Your Adopted Child's Lifestory

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As an adopted person, I can find no peace or answers to the haunting questions we adoptees struggle with apart from God and His Word, the Bible. Why am I in the family I'm in? Why did my birth mother give me up? Was my life a mistake? What do I do with all my unanswered questions, like missing history? How do I develop a healthy identity with no history? I have found that God has an answer for every question. What a wonderful contribution to adoption literature this book is! I can't recommend it highly enough!!

Sherrie Eldridge

Adoption author and speaker

Before You Were Mine is a "must read" for any adoptive parent! I've put off creating a lifebook for my daughter because I just didn't know how to go about it. After reading this book, I realize that a lifebook is essential for any adopted child, and it is so much more than a "scrapbook of my child's adoption story." It is my child's story before she was mine! It is vital for an adoptive child to know and understand his/her complete life story. Before You Were Mine offers step by step advice on how to work through and incorporate a child's history into a lifebook - even the difficult components. The book includes practical guidelines for putting together a lifebook and addresses both international and domestic adoptions.

This is a very special "find" for those adopting families for whom spirituality is central. The presented information is both spiritually sound AND psychologically sound. I was both very pleased and very touched to find such a thoughtfully conceived and well-written book. It is accessible to even the busiest parent, but it is not a "cookie cutter" approach to the life book. It goes one step further, and it inspires. Thank you so very much.

After much research this book is the most complete resource for making your lifebook. You only need one book and this is it! Lists of Bible verses are provided. Each chapter has guestions to ponder or homework to do. THe end of the book shows actual pages with examples. The book is written to include children who have been fostered, children of domestic adoption and international adoption.

The book is an easy read and is broken into great sections.

The book can also be used in a group setting.

I plan to use the book to teach a class at our church.

I HIGHLY recommend getting this if you are fostering or adopting!!

This book is better than I thought. It answers many concerns about how to tell a child they are adopted. The focus is to present adoption as a positive, and give the child available information on their birth parents. Content takes a very Christ-centered approach, complete with Bible verses that apply to the child and the adoption process. Very specific directions are given to prepare a "Lifestory" scrapbook for the child, with photos and information about their native country/habitat, and information about their birth parents.