Overview
Bridging Resilience: A Guide to Healing for Adoptees and Former Foster Youth, Families, and the Leaders Who Walk with Them is a compassionate, spiritually rooted guide for adoptees and former foster youth, and for the parents, caregivers, and leaders who walk alongside them. Written by a former foster child and adoptee, this book blends lived experience, therapeutic insight, and biblical reflection to explore the lifelong impact of early separation, identity disruption, and attachment trauma.
With grace and courage, Bridging Resilience speaks to the complex realities of adoption and foster care. It offers language for grief, tools for healing, and vision for what redemption can look like across generations and systems.
The book is organized into three sections:
- Between Bridges and Ruins: Healing for Adoptees and Former Foster Youth, which speaks directly to adoptees and those who have aged out of foster care. It gives voice to the invisible wounds of identity loss, gratitude pressures, and fragmented family ties. This section gently affirms the complexity of adoptee grief while offering both faith and therapy as healing companions.
- Sacred Privilege: A Call to Parents and Guardians, which is written for adoptive, foster, and kinship caregivers. It invites parents and guardians to approach their role as sacred stewardship—not saviorhood—rooted in humility, cultural awareness, and lifelong commitment. It addresses trauma responses, identity development, and what it means to stay when love feels inadequate.
- Reimagining Care: Systems, Churches, and Global Orphan Work, which challenges churches, systems, and global orphan advocates to move beyond shallow charity and toward justice. It critiques harmful language, confronts savior narratives, and calls for listening to lived experience. This section offers a new vision—one where care is ethical, informed, and shaped by proximity.
Whether you're walking through your own healing, raising a child from hard beginnings, or shaping systems that serve them, Bridging Resilience is an invitation to step into the hard and holy work of healing. To listen closely. To love better. And to believe that even in broken beginnings, there is still room for restoration. Healing is possible. Connection is possible. And together, we can bridge the gap.
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