Birth families are our family too—A mindset worth embracing
After we adopted our first child, Finley, it took me four years to figure out that birth families are our family too. Once I embraced...
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OPEN ADOPTION PIONEER
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It will touch your heart. You will smile and cry.
You can share with someone who can benefit from this story. 6 in 10 Americans are affected by adoption and over 1 million hopeful parents are waiting to adopt.
You will be helping others - 100% of author profits will go to provide support and therapy for birth parents & adopted persons.
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"Linda Sexton does an incredible, informative, earnest job of walking the reader through the nuanced, intricate world of open adoption. THE BRANCHES WE CHERISH is a searingly honest journey accounted from all sides of the adoption triangle. Told with a kind of grit and strength that leaves you feeling grateful to know there is steadfast promise to open adoption, a true alternative for children, birth parents and adoptive parents alike, for lasting, loving family dynamic."
Liz Pryor
Speaker, Life Advice Expert
ABC’s Good Morning America Advice Guru
Author of LOOK AT YOU NOW (Random House)
WHAT DID I DO WRONG? (Simon & Schuster)
Nominated for Books for a Better Life Award
Linda R. Sexton is an open adoption pioneer who seeks to educate on today’s practice of open adoption where the biological parents and adoptive families know each other and remain in contact after the adoption is finalized.
Her book, The Branches We Cherish: An Open Adoption Memoir, launched February 20, 2024. It won Gold in the Royal Palm Literary Awards for unpublished nonfiction educational works as well as second runner-up in unpublished book of the year. The manuscript also placed in the top 5 with Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest in her category in 2023.
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"It is the ability to openly celebrate both the adopted child's nature given by their birth families and the nurture given by their adoptive family that can make the child whole."
10 Things I Wish I Knew
10 Things I wish I knew About
Open Adoption at the Start of my Journey
UNRAVELING ADDOPTION
My daughter and I were the guests on the latest episode of the podcast Unraveling Adoption, an intentional space to delve into adoption's complexities together. In this 30-minute program we share about our family's open adoption - it's joys and its challenges.
The podcast's host, Beth Syverson, is an adoptive mom to a 20yo son Joey. Together we all want to help others open their eyes about adoption. We know this conversation will resonate with anyone impacted by adoption, and we want to help enlighten the general public too!
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CONTACT
Linda, an experienced public speaker, is available to speak to groups who are interested in the topic of open adoption. She can be reached at:
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