Do you ever doubt your decision to foster or adopt? Do you feel hopeless in the challenges of parenting your foster or adopted children? Do you worry that you really ARE a failure as a parent? You are not alone. Too many people become foster and adoptive parents without having accurate information or knowing what to expect. Of those who do, many find they don’t have the resources or support they need to do it well. Many parents find themselves inadequate, insufficient, and incapable of the task of parenting foster and adopted kids. These parents are often unable to find the help they need or too embarrassed to look. This book is for the parents who question their decision to foster or adopt, who feel beaten down by the judgments of others and themselves, and who deal with regret, loss, and disappointment. It’s also for those hoping to be better prepared for the adoptive struggles ahead.You can enjoy the new life and family you're creating.In this unique blend of memoir and guidebook, Marcy shares with you the lessons her family has learned along the way, the problems that have nearly flattened them, and the way they’ve seen, and continue to hope for, good in each one. Marcy covers the greatest challenges, as revealed through her own experience as a foster mother, adoptive mother, and professional counselor.Whether you are considering foster parenting or adopting, or are already in it and drowning, or you just want to throw a lifesaver to a foster parenting/adoptive friend or family member, then this book is your must-read resource.Reclaiming Hope gives you truth about adopting, fostering, and taking guardianship of children in a new and easy-to-understand way through:* Breaking down misinformation fed to prospective foster and adoptive parents* Finding community to validate your existence, remind you of your purpose, and encourage you to keep on* Naming the 10 greatest challenges of fostering and adopting, so you can align your expectations with reality (the stuff they don’t tell you about in promo videos, fliers, and information meetings)* Help for the friend or family member who wants to support adoptive/foster families.* Reclaiming hope when circumstances scream fear and helplessness.Follow the advice in this book and fostering and adoption can be a beautiful, wonderful experience for you and your family. It will be hard. But it doesn’t have to be devastating.If you’re tired of pretending you’ve got it all together or that you’ve got the perfect kids or that this is always easy… if you sometimes wonder if you’ve made a mistake… if you feel the strain of raising adoptive and foster kids on your marriage or on your own health, then keep reading.Together we are going to name these challenges, acknowledge that they exist, that they are hard, and that, at the end of the day, there is still hope.What’s stopping you from reclaiming hope in your foster or adoptive situation?Scroll to the top and click the “buy now” button

Reclaiming Hope: Overcoming the Challenges of Parenting Foster and Adoptive Children

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pusey, Marcy

Psychology & Counseling

Pusey Publishing

Tercules

Tercules is a wild turkey chick who is abnormally strong…Herculean strong. In the midst of ridicule, Tercules must find the beauty of his uniqueness and discover that he can be different and complete. His strength comes to great use, revealing the treasure of his difference, and proving to all that he is an integral member of his flock family.

Children's Books

Animals

Miramare Ponte Press

According to Corban

In Corban's imagination, kitchens are troll's lairs, backyards are jungles, and bedrooms are launching pads to Mars. Little sisters can be princesses, witches, or sometimes, just the partner needed to save the day. In According to Corban, even the most mundane tasks turn into exotic adventures. But when the queen turns into a dragon, Corban discovers a surprising hero.

Activities, Crafts & Games

Marcy Pusey

In Corban's imagination, kitchens are troll's lairs, backyards are jungles, and bedrooms are launching pads to Mars. Little sisters can be princesses, witches, or sometimes, just the partner needed to save the day. In According to Corban, even the most mundane tasks turn into exotic adventures. But when the queen turns into a dragon, Corban discovers a surprising hero. Enjoy the pages with text and illustration from Corban's point of view... then flip the page to see what's REALLY going on!

Business & Money

Sosa, Daniela

Business Culture

Kids deserve a safe place to live and grow and learn. For some kids, this means living with foster or adoptive parents. Speranza’s Sweater chronicles one child’s experience through the foster and adoptive system. 
Speranza wears her sweater everywhere, hanging onto the last memories of her birth home, until it’s threadbare. Like her unraveled sweater, Speranza must weave together a new story, bringing threads from her past and strands from her present, into a future of love, family, and the true meaning of home. 
In this heart-warming and reassuring story, children are offered permission to feel and experience their own story authentically. It provides hope and support for the many mixed emotions a child will experience during their foster and adoption journey, through the unraveling and re-weaving of a favorite sweater. 
Speranza also introduces children to potential life experiences of foster and adopted classmates, friends, or family members. By reading Speranza’s story with your child, and discussing the experience of a child in a similar situation, you can create a safe space to talk about feelings of grief, loss, excitement, confusion, anger, sadness, or any of the many other feelings accompanying removal, foster care, and adoption. 
Speranza’s Sweater also includes a dictionary of words to empower children and their carers by understanding the language used around them.

Speranza's Sweater

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Corbans Welt (German Edition)

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Murder changed their lives. Faith and hope changed their grief.On July 13, 2005, newlyweds Marcy and Jeremy woke up to the murder of his mother-- just down the hall--while they'd slept.In this evocative book, Marcy and Jeremy Pusey bring you straight into the heart of their survival story, sharing the hope they found with the shock and anguish of their family tragedy.This gripping work chronicles the grief journey of the newlyweds, tackles the nature of forgiveness, and shows how they moved through their pain to change the world. Their story demonstrates how faith can move mountains of resentment and hate to rebuild a life of healing, reconciliation, and joy.While We Slept is a eulogy for a missed mother, a legacy for her children and grandchildren, and a lighthouse of hope for anyone else flailing through a tragedy. This book is not only the story of one mind-boggling murder, but also about how we can find courage in trauma, forgiveness in devastation, and how we can triumph after heartbreak.And then there's hope.*The print book edition contains news articles, used with permission.

While We Slept: Finding Hope and Healing After Homicide

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Do you ever feel confused about what went wrong in your foster or adoption story? Are you fearful about the future of your marriage and your children? Do you ever feel overwhelmed and desperate for help?
You are not alone.
Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can sometimes add to the problems these families face, sometimes prolonging the healing process for all.
Attachment disorder is cruel.
This book is for the wonderful-hearted people who stepped into adoption with dreams of loving a child to wholeness, only to find that children who hurt sometimes hurt people. This book is for parents who feel overwhelmed, desperate, and depleted. Or for the friend or family member who has watched the adoption story of their loved one unravel and felt helpless.
Marcy Pusey’s family has lived their own version of hope and hell in learning what real love looks like for these children. It took their marriage to the brink, their own personal mental health to its limits, their family to some dark places—but they came out in a brighter place. They surfaced with the support of their community, their dedication to making it, and a whole lot of prayer. Before Marcy was raising kids with attachment disorders, she was therapeutically supporting families who were. And now she offers this hope and help to you.
Parenting Children of Trauma brings you everything she’s learned as mama, friend, and counselor, in a new and easy-to-understand way by:
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<li>Demystifying attachment disorders and the impact of complex emotional trauma on our homes and society.</li>
<li>Breaking down current treatment options for attachment disorders.</li>
<li>Equipping you with information, strategies, and stories to know you are not alone or powerless in your own home. </li>
<li>Resources specifically for the friend or family member who wants to support adoptive/foster families.</li>
</ul>
Whether you're already in this situation, thinking about stepping into it, or know someone who is in it, this book will help you set realistic expectations, redefine love, and walk away with actual tools to change the climate of your heart and your home.
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Parenting Children of Trauma: The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder

Mental Health

Weirdo and Willy

Willy is taunted by his classmates for being weird--for the way he dresses, what he eats, and the things he likes to do. One day, a "Weirdo" actually shows up in response to their name-calling. The creature wants to play! Thus begins a tale of unlikely friendship: Weirdo and Willy find the companionship they've been missing in the most unlikely of people... er, creatures.
This story is about accepting differences and not prejudging people. It's about co-operation and selflessness. 
Through playful imagination, "Weirdo and Willy" takes on the psychologically traumatic and scarring experiences of name-calling, bullying, victimhood, and being a social outcast. "Weirdo and Willy" turns the bully-victim relationship on its head by transforming the usual belittling names that kids call each other into delightful awe-inspiring creatures that befriend the children. By the end of the story, what began as a negative name used to exclude and ridicule a child becomes a heroic, likeable name- a name a child would wear with pride. "Weirdo and Willy" also explores how to make friends and pull oneself out of social isolation or an outcast state.
Taunters beware! You never know what might actually show up!

Willy is taunted by his classmates for being weird—for the way he dresses, what he eats, and the things he likes to do. One day, a “Weirdo” actually shows up in response to their name-calling. The creature wants to play! Thus begins a tale of unlikely friendship: Weirdo and Willy find the companionship they’ve been missing in the most unlikely of people… er, creatures. 
Weirdo and Willy is a story about accepting differences and not prejudging people. It’s about co-operation and selflessness. 
Through playful imagination, Weirdo and Willy takes on the psychologically traumatic and scarring experiences of name-calling, bullying, victimhood, and being a social outcast. Weirdo and Willy turns the bully-victim relationship on its head by transforming the usual belittling names that kids call each other into delightful awe-inspiring creatures that befriend the children. By the end of the story, what began as a negative name used to exclude and ridicule a child becomes a heroic, likeable name--a name a child would wear with pride. Weirdo and Willy also explores how to make friends and pull oneself out of social isolation or an outcast state. 
Taunters beware! You never know what might actually show up!

Biographies

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Books by Pusey, Marcy

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Reclaiming Hope: Overcoming the Challenges of Parenting Foster and Adoptive Children

Tercules

According to Corban

According to Corban

Speranza's Sweater

Corbans Welt (German Edition)

While We Slept: Finding Hope and Healing After Homicide

Parenting Children of Trauma: The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder

Weirdo and Willy

Weirdo and Willy