Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees
Voices Unheard provides an opportunity for adoptees to process their experiences in their early lives to build a better understanding of how that key part of their personal history affected their instincts, behaviors, and emotions.
For an adoptee, coming out of the fog often follows self-reflection, therapy, and peer support, processes well understood by author Lisa Coppola, a mental health counselor whose earliest memories include adoption support group meetings in her home. Her 52-week writing journal, Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees, offers prompts based on core themes that arise in therapy, space for writing, resources including a glossary, and guidelines plus a script to help volunteer moderators run peer groups.
Adult adoptees can use the journal as a guide individually or under the care of a therapist.-Therapists can use the journal as a tool in their practice with adopted clients.-Peer-led support group moderators can use the prompts as weekly assignments, enabling attendees to share their thoughts and build connections in a group setting.
Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees provides an opportunity for adoptees to process their experiences in their early lives to build a better understanding of how that key part of their personal history has consciously or subconsciously affected their instincts, behaviors, and emotions. Through the act of reflective journaling, they can build a better understanding of their own stories of being uprooted and replanted into an often (though not always) non-biological family. The creative process can enable the writer to recognize, validate, and learn how to comfort feelings, an essential step on the path to leading a healthy and productive life.
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