Hi friends....welcome! I bet your life has been touched by adoption! You may be an adopted person, a birth or adoptive parent, a grandparent, or an adoption professional. Your best friend or spouse may be an adoptee. Whatever the reason, welcome! I hope you will find what you're looking for here. This site is the accumulation of 18 years of positive, informative, and inspirational pre and post-adoption resources. I'll share fresh coaching tips and videos in response to questions you can submit.(http://sherrieeldridge.blogspot.com. The speaking page will show upcoming events, or perhaps you'd like to plan an event? (http://tinyurl.com/2arcbws). The 100-member, international all-adoptee online group provides a place for adoptees to share with those who "get it." (all-adoptee@yahoogroups.com). Check out adoption books at the store: 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed, Questions Adoptees Are Asking, Forever Fingerprints...An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children, and 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed. At the store link, there are also five, downloadable, test-marketed workbooks, perfect for your post-adoption needs. They have proved life transformative for adoption support groups, adoptive/foster families, counselors/clients, and teens/parents. And...they're free, my gift to you!

Sherrie's birth mother, Elizabeth and her adoptive mother, Retha.

Stories of Adoption

Twenty Gifts of Being Adopted

1. The first gift is LIFE...May you remember the One who created you.
2. The second gift is BIRTH...May you be grateful for she who chose to carry you.
3. The third gift is a NEW NAME....May you rejoice in the fact that your name is personally written on my heart.    
4. The fourth gift is BELONGING...May you recall each day that we belong to one another.
5. The fourth gift is FAMILY....May your differences remind you that our family is like a beautiful grafted tree that is magnificent to behold.
6. The third gift is STRENGTH....May you continue to grow strong because of the challenges you encounter.
7. The fifth gift is IDENTITY...May you celebrate that you are a wondrous combination nature and nurture, with awesome potential.
8. The sixth gift is SECURITY...May you rest assured that you will never be forgotten.
9. The seventh gift is LOVE... May you realize they would have traveled to the ends of the world to find you.
10. The tenth gift is ACCEPTANCE... May you understand our acceptance is not based on your performance.
11. The eleventh gift is GRACE...May you rejoice in being yourself because we accept you just as you are.
12. The twelfth gift is TALENT...May you celebrate your difference and share them with your family and the world.
13. The thirteenth gift is PURPOSE...May you be inspired to discover your unique footprints across the sands of time.
14. The fourteenth gift is TEARS...May you shed them freely so that you can freely laugh.
15. The fifteenth gift is ADVENTURE...May you delight that your history isn't given to you on a silver platter. You will have a life of adventure!
16. The sixteenth gift is HUMOR...May your funny bone be tickled when or say dumb things about adoption.
17. The seventeenth gift is CALLING...You were created and adopted for a purpose that no one else in human history can fill.
18. The eighteenth gift is COMMUNITY...May you search out early in life the blessing of friendships with fellow adoptees.
19. The nineteenth gift is TENDERHEARTEDNESS...May you be willing to weep with those who weep, for your adoption wounds qualify you tobe a wounded healer.
20. The twentieth gift is ABUNDANCE....May you experience the full, abundant life planned for you, every single day of  your life. 

Copyright 2010, Sherrie Eldridge.
No reproduction without written permission of author: www.sherrieeldridge.com

Families Adoption- International Christian Adoptions Consultants and Facilitator