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Searching For Jane, Finding Myself (An Adoption Memoir) eBook
One of several Amazon Reviews: I read “Searching for Jane, Finding Myself”, and found it fascinating. I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. Though not an adoptee myself, I found that the inner struggles Jan faced on her way to wholeness, feelings of shame, blame and regret are something most anyone could identify with. I admire her courage to not only dig deeper but to then share the experience. I’m happy to see Jan taking it to the next step towards speaking, to tell her story, to make a difference. I recommend the book for anyone.
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Gregory C. Keck,Ph.D. Co-author of Adopting the Hurt Child, Parenting the Hurt Child, and author of Parenting Adopted Adolescents. Founder and Director of the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio, says:
In Searching for Jane, Finding Myself, author Jan Fishler shares her adoption journey filled with loss, grief, anger, abandonment, and, finally, healing. This book points out just how truthful disclosures can help adopted children make sense of what seems senseless, and it illustrates how adoptive parents’ open sharing can offer their children solace in their times of deep despair and seemingly endless engagement in fantasy of what life might have been like with their birth families. Fishler’s work illustrates how the TRUTH will help fill the holes in the adoptee’s mosaic of life. Through Fishler’s many stories, one can see that the truth even the truth that seems ugly, will help smooth the rough journey of an adopted person.
I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wonders if they should tell an adopted child the truth-—the child’s real truth.
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Gregory C. Keck,Ph.D. Co-author of Adopting the Hurt Child, Parenting the Hurt Child, and author of Parenting Adopted Adolescents. Founder and Director of the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio, says:
In Searching for Jane, Finding Myself, author Jan Fishler shares her adoption journey filled with loss, grief, anger, abandonment, and, finally, healing. This book points out just how truthful disclosures can help adopted children make sense of what seems senseless, and it illustrates how adoptive parents’ open sharing can offer their children solace in their times of deep despair and seemingly endless engagement in fantasy of what life might have been like with their birth families. Fishler’s work illustrates how the TRUTH will help fill the holes in the adoptee’s mosaic of life. Through Fishler’s many stories, one can see that the truth even the truth that seems ugly, will help smooth the rough journey of an adopted person.
I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wonders if they should tell an adopted child the truth-—the child’s real truth.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 25, 2011
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