Your Sacred Adoption: A Guided Journal of Life, Love and Memories [Paperback]

Kevin Quirk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 22, 2008

As an adoptive parent, or someone considering adoption, you are making a leap of faith into a world of endless joys and challenges. A world of mystery and awe. A sacred world.When you adopt a child, hearts open. Deep feelings are stirred. Things happen that leave you shaking your head in wonder. Everyone is touched by something magical, something bigger than all of us. Many call it God. Others call it spirit, or the holy, or the divine. Others have no name for it, but they know it's present. This guided journal will help you capture and preserve everything about this wondrous time. Simple phrases will prompt you to remember, to record, and to savor your most important memories and experiences at every step along the way, leaving you with a treasured keepsake for you and your child.This book will serve as a perfect guide for any parent(s) adopting a child of any age, through a domestic or international adoption. It also serves as a valued gift for anyone at any stage of the adoption journey.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kevin Quirk helps people of all ages preserve their life stories as a writer, interviewer, editor, and publishing coach through Memoirs for Life (memoirsforlife.com). An adoptive father, he is the author of Hello, Aibek! and Not Now, Honey, I?m Watching the Game. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (February 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595485308
• ISBN-13: 978-0595485307
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #94 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Adoption

More About the Author

Kevin Quirk is a Charlottesville, Virgina based author, ghostwriter, personal historian, editor, and nonfiction book coach. His specialties include memoirs and autobiographies, religion and spirituality, self-help, health, business, politics, and cultural affairs. A former journalist with the Charlotte Observer, he is the author of the new book "Your Life Is a Book - And it's Time to Write It! An A-to-Z Guide to Help Anyone Write Their Life Story." He is also co-author of the inspirational book "Brace for Impact: Miracle on the Hudson Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for New Life" and the author of "Not Now, Honey, I'm Watching the Game," as well as "Your Sacred Adoption: A Guided Journal of Life, Love and Memories." Kevin teaches Writing Your Life Story classes through OLLI at UVA and Autobiographical Writing at the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies. As a member of the Association of Personal Historians, he interviews men and women of all ages and writes their life stories through his service, Life Is a Book. His website (www.lifeisabook.com) features his blog "Life Is a Book - Is It Time to Write Yours?"

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a "Guided Journal"...A++, May 2, 2008

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Cynthia L. Lajoy "Cindy La Joy" (CO, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Sacred Adoption: A Guided Journal of Life, Love and Memories (Paperback)

As the mother of three adopted children from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, I have tried several ways to capture the emotions and experiences of each of our adoption journeys. This is really a unique tool for those of you who want to share your feelings about your adoption journey, and yet have a difficult time knowing where and how to begin. Unlike a standard "Lifebook" you purchase where you are asked to complete questions which record facts, Kevin's journal steers you to record emotions which is really what we are all trying to capture in the first place. This journal guides you through the entire process with very specific statements for you to address, prompting you to do far more than record the facts of your child's adoption but through probing statements and open ended starters it encourages you to share your feelings about the deeper meaning of the process. Starter statements such as "What most captured your attention in your new surroundings was..." and "If my child's caregivers or others were there, I tried to communicate my feelings toward them by..." really get you to think about the little details and to commit them to paper. Those are the things your child might very well treasure when they are older. For those of you who are not techies or bloggers, this can be a wonderful momento for your child. It is appropriate for either domestic or international adoption and is not a short pamphlet but a 73 page book in which you can record every single thought and emotion. After reading it myself, I thought it would be something most parents would love to do and would be very helpful to those who need a push to get started or who don't have confidence in their own writing abilities. Kevin is an adoptive father himself, with a son adopted from our son Matthew's orphanage in Aktobe, Kazakhstan. He has written a memoir himself of his adoption journey titled "Hello Aibek!".

5.0 out of 5 stars very good journal, August 3, 2008

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L. Nadeau - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Sacred Adoption: A Guided Journal of Life, Love and Memories (Paperback)

this journal prompts you with questions regarding your adoption journey- really well thougth out and a great addendum to my own private journal that i have been keeping. i did not find it overly religious or preachy- is very open to most world religions given the way it's written. would recommend it to anyone adopting and would appreciate prompted questions related to their personal "spiritual journey" of adoption.