Books: Adoption Specific
Adoption Nation
Adam Pertman
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Adoption Unfiltered Revelations from Adoptees, Birthparents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard & Lori Holden
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American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
Gabrielle Glaser
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Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories
Merry Bloch Jones
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Finding Hope: A Birthmother’s Journey into the Light
Hope O. Baker
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Life Givers: Framing the Birth Parent Experience in Open Adoption
James L. Gritter
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek
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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency
Sharon Kaplan Roszia & Allison Davis Maxon
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
Gretchen Sisson
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The Baby Market: The Case for Adoption Reform
Anne Moody
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Saying Goodbye to Baby: A Counselor’s Guide to Birth Parent Loss and Grief in Adoption
Patricia Roles
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Ann Fessler
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Books: Grief and Loss
Finding Meaning
David Kessler
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It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who we are and How to End the Cycle
Mark Wolynn
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It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok
Megan Devine
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Man’s Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl
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Mother Brain
Chelsea Conaboy
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The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
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The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
Mary-Frances O’Connor
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The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion
Candace De Puy & Dana Dovitch
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Francis Weller
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You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death
Louise Hay & David Kessler
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Alan Wolfelt grief booklets:
- Expected Loss: Coping with Anticipatory Grief
- Too Much Loss: Coping with Grief Overload
- The Guilt of Grief: How to Understand, Embrace, and Restoratively Express Guilt and Regret after a Loss
- The Other Losses: Acknowledging and Mourning All Your Losses Along Life’s Path
- The Anger of Grief: How to Understand, Embrace, and Restoratively Express Explosive Emotions after a Loss
- Complicated Grief: How to Understand, Express, and Reconcile Your Especially Difficult Grief
- Cherishing: The Art of Fully Living While Still Loving and Honoring those Who’ve Died
Journals
Birth Parent’s Guide to Grief: A 12 Step Process
Jessalynn Speight & Alysia Foote
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Grow, Flower & Flourish: A Birth Parent Journal
On Your Feet Foundation
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How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief
Megan Devine
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Revealing You: A Journal for Birth Mothers
Michelle Thorne
(Please note: This resource is a Christian workbook)
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For Professionals
Non-Death Loss and Grief: Context and Clinical Implications First Edition edited
Darcy L Harris
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Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy
William Worden
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Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work With Ambiguous Loss
Pauline Boss
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Out of the Shadows, a film about birth moms
Watch on Vimeo