• Meet Angela

    Meet Angela! She's a long time friend of BraveLove's and one of our newest contributors to the Being A Birth Mom column... Hello! My name is Angela.  I am a

  • Book Review – Daring Greatly

    It's Book Club time again! And this one was a great read to kick off the year. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love,

  • A Brief Look at Joy & Grief in Adoption

      Joy and pain being ever present at any given time. Of course, when I think about things for any length of time, I tend to see them in view

  • Birth Mom Connections

    I talk about being a birth mom a lot. It’s something I am passionate about because I long to see human dignity stretch into adoption from all sides of the

  • Meet Allie

    Meet Allie! She's one of our newest contributors to the Being A Birth Mom column... Hey there, I'm Allie!  I am a birth mother, wife, daughter, blogger, manager and dog

  • Book Review – The Waiting

    It's Book Club time! This month BraveLove's founder Ellen reviewed the book, and here's what she thought about it... The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of

  • Book Review – You Carried Me

    Time for Book Club! This month our friend Rachel from Utah reviewed the book. Here's what she thought about the memoir... You Carried Me: A Daughter's Memoir by Melissa Ohden

  • Book Review – To Have and Not To Hold

    It's Book Club time! To Have and Not to Hold: The Bonding of Two Mothers through Adoption by Lorri Antosz Benson Reviewed by Laura from BraveLove The title caught my attention,

  • When to Drop the ‘I’m A Birth Mom Bomb’ When Dating

    Let’s just be real for a second…”Birth Mom” is not exactly a box that someone would eagerly check when creating their dating profile. Because being a birth mom is not

  • Adoption Vocab: What to Say and What Not to Say to Birth Mothers

    The more time I spend reaching out to others about the truth in adoption, I find the skewed words and ideas many individuals have on the placement of a child,