About this book
Written for teens who were adopted, this compassionate workbook will help give you the strength, resilience, and confidence you need to thrive—now and on into adulthood.
If you're like many other adopted teens, you may wonder about your birth family. You may question why you were given up. And you may even grapple with feelings of isolation, abandonment, and broken trust. These feelings are valid and deserve to be addressed. This workbook is designed to help you open the door to questioning, explore painful feelings, and develop the skills needed to be a happy and grounded adult.
The Adopted Teen Workbook teaches powerful self-resiliency, mindfulness, and somatic skills to help you explore your unique identity as an adopted teen. You'll find tools to manage loss and grief, and activities that include checklists, contemplations, skill-building, and journaling to help you chronicle present, past, and future relationships with both your adoptive and birth parents.
This workbook begins with your first recognition of having been adopted and the feelings that come with that. You will then explore memories of the past and begin work on understanding emotions of anger, shame, and loss. Finally, you'll learn ways to heal these wounds, learn to trust, and fully connect with both yourself and others.
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Table of contents
- acknowledgments
- letter to teen readers
- Part I: Building Self-Resiliency Skills with Mindfulness and Breath
- Part II: Understanding Your Brain, Body, Emotions, and Past Trauma
- Part III: Finding and Exploring Who You Are
- Part IV: Skills for Moving Through the Hurt
- Part V: Healing Early Memories
- Part VI: Strategies for Moving Forward
- Resources
