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

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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!".

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.