As a second mom, whether you’ve adopted or stepped into the role of motherhood, you know the heart and effort you pour into nurturing your child or teen.
You meticulously plan, pray over your strategies, and practice every form of parenting wisdom you’ve found.
You strive to be beneficial without triggering, functional without causing division, and helpful without being invasive.
Yet, despite these fervent efforts…
You meticulously plan, pray over your strategies, and practice every form of parenting wisdom you’ve found.
You strive to be beneficial without triggering, functional without causing division, and helpful without being invasive.
Yet, despite these fervent efforts…
…there are days when everything seems to fall apart
Read more...How Churches Can Support Women who are Moms in Complex Families such as Adoptive Moms & Step-Moms
Just imagine…You're a mom, and you're not the child's first mom. They don’t automatically look to you as their home base, as “mom”. You feel alone, unsupported, and like you don't quite fit in anywhere, and while your church has been an integral part of your life for years, you’re feeling less and less connected, less and less understood, less and less supported.
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Do you think of yourself as trustworthy?
On a scale of 1-10 where do you think you are?
Where on that scale would you say most people would put you back before your child/children came along?
In our complex adoptive and blended families trust can often be lacking from our non-biological children, not because we aren’t trustworthy, but due to their own backgrounds. And that can bleed over onto others.
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