Goodbye, Hello

by Emily Christensen

Five-year-old Anber makes her publishing debut with the story of her foster care experience. Entering foster care just after her first birthday, Anber experienced the struggle of adjusting to a new home, foster siblings that came and went, and waiting for decisions made without her in court. Ultimately, Anber's mother relinquished and Anber was adopted by her foster family. This children's book preserves her shy voice by telling her story her own way, through a poem of quatrains she helped write.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

Emily Christensen, Ph.D., has a Bachelor's Degree in Human Development, a Master's Degree in Professional Counseling, and her doctorate is in Marriage and Family Therapy. A clinician for more than 20 years, Dr. Christensen has primarily served foster, adopted, and blended families struggling with patterns of acting out behaviors and negative interactions in effort to bring clarity and mutual understanding to increase bonding, improve attachment, and create a more peaceful environment in the home. She runs the www.ParentingClass.Solutions website.

Dr. Christensen decided to serve with her husband as a foster parent when she witnessed the desperate situation of so many little ones who were ready to be discharged from inpatient services but had no placement available. Their dramatic and award-winning story, Keeping Kyrie, tells their story of fostering more than eighty children in four years. Ultimately, they adopted six special needs children that continue to keep them on their toes. These experiences transformed Dr. Christensen's clinical skills with personal experiences that have shaped her gift for supporting, educating, and healing families.

She has collaborated with her children on other books as well. Baby Kyrie's PRS ABC is an ABC picture book for medically fragile children, written with her two year old daughter. CP and Me is a children's picture book about Cerebral Palsy, written with her eight year old son. Marvelous Mary is a children's picture book about being Deaf with Cochlear Implants. Gee-Whiz, G-Tube! is a children's book about the experience of feeding tubes, and transitioning from ng tube to g-tube. The Other Brother is a children's picture book for children with siblings who have special needs.

Goodbye, Hello is a children's picture book about the termination of parental rights in foster care, told in tender quatrains.

Upcoming releases include children's books on autism, foster care, and adoption.

All the books are available online, or you can buy them autographed with a discount if you buy them directly from the author at www.ParentingClass.Solutions/the-books .