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Open adoption pioneer, speaker, author, blogger, and adoptive mom

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Meet Linda

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 It won Gold in the Royal Palm Literary Awards for unpublished nonfiction educational works as well as second runner-up in unpublished book of the year.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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GOLD adoption author top award Florida Writers Association

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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. Thousands of hopeful parents are waiting to adopt. Six in ten Americans are already affected by adoption.

You will be helping others - 100% of author profits will go to provide support and therapy for adopted persons and birth parents.

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Book Reviews

"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

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Unraveling Adoption Podcast

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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Blog

Open Adoption: Double the Love

When Adoption Enters the Room

It happens every time I say the word “adoption.” The stories start pouring out. Recently, I was invited to be interviewed on First Coast Living , a morning show in Jacksonville, Florida. Before the cameras turned on, the guests gathered in the studio—strangers sharing that mix of excitement and nerves that comes from waiting for your turn to go live on air. To pass the time—and calm our jitters—we did what people naturally do: we started talking. “What are you here for?” we a

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