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Summary: Freud couldn't have done a better job
Review: If Dr. Freud were alive today, he'd say Bravo. Adoption Healing has opened my eyes and finally given me a way to understand my life as an adopted woman and find a way to deal with my pain. The Inner Child work, which I first thought was [terrible], actually works. I feel better, I'm happier than I've ever been in my life and I am optimistic about the future for the first time, ever!
Thank you, Joe Soll, for finally writing a book that helps heal the wounds of adopted people
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Summary: Beware! Read This Book With Caution
Review: If you are a member of the adoption triangle you will find "Adoption Healing" a book to read with caution. After reading the first 3 chapters, I had my very first anxiety attack.(at work, had to leave, how embarrassing) I had flippantly believed words could not hurt me. Joe Soll picks the scab off a wound I had fogotten I had. He says in OUT LOUD words what I had not allowed myself to even think. He accurately discribes our pain. After chapter 5 the book becomes less traumatic & more thereputic. There is hope for us damaged by the adoption system. I recommend this book to anyone who is touched by adoption, always felt like an outsider (you KNOW what I mean) and if you have always felt your adoption experience overshadows everthing in your life & have always wondered why you are differeent & conventiontional therapy has failed you. Joe Soll holds a glimmer of hope for all of us. Proceed with extreme caution.
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Summary: I highly recommend THIS book!
Review: In "Adoption Healing...", Joe Soll takes the reader deep into the soul of the adoptee and brings to light, the pain and damage caused by separation. The author teaches ways to get in touch with the feelings often hidden in order to survive, and shows that if we are to heal from the trauma caused by adoption, we must learn to deal with with all of these painful and scary emotions. Definitely an educational tool to well being. As an adult adoptee, I was able to understand how my life was drastically affected and as a mother separated from her child by adoption, I was able to prepare myself for a successful and loving reunion with the child I lost. Not light reading but a MUST for all touched by adoption.
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Summary: Much Need Help for Adoption
Review: In this excellent beginning, Joe Soll brings to light, the pain and damage caused by adoption. The author uses sound recovery principles to help adoptees and their mothers heal from the loss of each other. "Adoption Healing ... A Path to Recovery" provides much needed permission to admit true feelings about adoption, rather than parrot the "wonderful" "joyful" comments expected (but only realistic for adopters, who've only gained through adoption, and have not lost family members). This socially enforced denial is encouraged by adoption jargon, which Mr. Soll uses liberally, unfortunately, but this is only the beginning of honest books about adoption.
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Summary: Adoption Healing: A Path to Recovery
Review: Joe Soll draws heavily from John Bradshaw's works about "inner child" healing. The reader is encouraged to heal through self-affirmations. I also recommend that triad members read Sherrie Eldridge's books.
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Summary: Truly a Path For Healing - A Must Read For All Triad Members
Review: Joe Soll has captured the true essense of the inner workings of an adoptee and I say this from personal experience. On my journey in search of self, I have read many books on adoption, but unitl now, I couldn't find a book which did more than describe the experience of the adoptee. Joe Soll not only provided me with a great deal of insight into how my adoption experience shaped and defined the person I am, he provided me with the tools I needed to heal the hurt deep within my soul. His insightful and sensitively written work provides the reader with a very positive and helpful interactive experience. His method of exploration with the reader is experiential in nature, therapeutic in effect and his beliefs are based upon his vast experience working with adoptees as well as his own personal life experiences and is clearly a must read for all members of the adoption triad. I recommend this book highly!
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Summary: AWARENESS AT LAST
Review: Joe Soll's book, Adoption Healing...a path to recovery, allowed me for the first time, to realize that as an adoptive parent, I too need healing. My pain, anger and all the myriad emotions that I felt through the years are just as real as those of my adopted daughter. Adoption Healing is written with such tenderness, simplicity and positiveness that it makes for easy understanding and gives us the step by step keys to the healing process. Mr. Soll includes exercises to help us through the pain which is another plus. In fact, this book helped me understand my daughter's pain and anger which I never understood before. What a revelation that was and this is part of what the healing process entails. I recommend this book for all those who are adoptive parents or prospective adoptive parents. For me it was an answer to years of prayer and for the first time I see a light at the end of my tunnel. Yes, the healing has begun. A big thank you to Joe Soll for writing this book.
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Summary: The Only Way Out Is Through
Review: Joe's book truly separates the men from the boys (women from the girls). It is proof positive that the only way out of the pain is through the pain. When and if schools/universities offer courses in adoption studies, "Adoption Healing" should be required reading. His wish list for healthier adoptions is right on the money. I am very impressed with his work.Kasey Hamner, M.S., author of "Whose Child?"
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Summary: Pathetic
Review: NOTE: This book got one star ONLY because 0 stars is not an option!!
If you are not a basket case looking for someone to say, "There there" while incessantly addressing the needs of your inner child, then this book is NOT FOR YOU!! I am an adoptee in reunion and my birthmother suggested this title, but warned me I might find it a bit "Twelve-steppish." That is the understatement of the century. Let's put it this way - I briefly considered selling the book, but didn't want to inflict such poor quality of writing and psychobabble on others, so I threw it away (this from a person who treats books like the American flag - I don't even throw them on the floor!!). If you are looking for a book that addresses possible "issues" that may arise for the adopted, read _The PRimal WOund_ by Nancy Verrier. SHe is an actual psychotherapist as opposed to a social worker, which I believe is Soll's claim to legitimacy. Seriously, this is to be skipped unless you're looking for "mommying" of the inner child to which you are still an adult slave.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Of all the adoption books I have read, Adoption Healing goes to the heart of the matter....The truth hurts and Soll pulls no punches. He has taken John Bradhaw's Inner Child work and modified it to help adopted people heal their wounds. He explains the mother/child bond that begins before birth in a very clear fashion and goes on to show how the effects of separation from one's mother at birth radiate through the psychological development of the adoptee and what can be done to help the adoptee deal with the pain of this loss. I've gone to many adoption support groups over the years and heard many adoptees argue that they had no loss, become angry at those who do acknowledge the loss. Adoption Healing thoroughly explains why so many adoptees deny their pain, just as victims of sexual abuse have to deny the existence of their experience to survive. If you have been affected by adoption and want to really understand the psychology of the adoptee, this book is for you.
It validated my adoption experience and has helped validate the experience of many of my adopted friends as well.
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