Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees

by Lisa Coppola

Overview

Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees, a 52-week writing journal created by adoptee Lisa Coppola, a licensed mental health counselor, offers prompts based on core themes that arise in post-adoption therapy. It enables adoptees to better understand how their early experiences have consciously or subconsciously affected their instincts, behaviors, and emotions. 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 fulfilling life.

This journal includes a glossary, recommended reading, and guidelines and 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 in a group setting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798218031619
Publisher:	Boston Post Adoption Resources
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	319 KB

About the Author

Lisa "LC" Coppola is a licensed mental health counselor and a domestic adoptee through the department of children and family services. She is a heartfelt advocate for those relinquished, serves as a therapist, and is the creator of the Voices Unheard: Real Adoptee Stories speaker and writing workshop series in collaboration with Boston Post Adoption Resources. Lisa lives in the Boston area and often writes on themes around relinquishment and addiction.

Table of Contents

A Special Letter to Adoptees

Introduction

Who Can Benefit from this Journal

A Note to Adult Adoptees

A Note to Therapists

A Note to Adult Adoptee Peer-Led Support Groups

Post Adoption Vocabulary

Suggested Reading

Voices Unheard Journal (52 prompts)

References

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About Boston Post Adoption Resources

Editorial Reviews

"This guided journal is long overdue. It offers an adoptee the opportunity to carefully examine their perspectives and feelings about their life and to clarify what is truth."

-Sharon Kaplan Roszia, co-author of Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third-Party Reproduction

"Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees is a vital tool for therapists who want to better understand the emotional lives of adoptees and an indispensable guide to help peer group leaders facilitate healing conversation. I highly recommend it."

-B.K. Jackson, editor of Severance Magazine

"An important guide for digging deeper into the emotional landscape we need to explore in this lifetime journey of healing and discovery."

-Deborah Jiang-Stein, adoptee, author of Prison Baby: A Memoir, Founder, unPrison Project

"This journal allows us to take control of our narrative, to put our own experiences into our own words, and in doing so find measures of grace, understanding, and healing."

-Steve Pemberton, author of A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home

"Bravely breaks through the mystery of the unspoken and offers a map for adoptees, one that urges us to listen to the truth of our bodies-the only kind of map we can trust."

-Jan Beatty, adoptee, author of American Bastard

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