• A Personal Letter for National Adoption Month

    Dear Birth Mom, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write this. The last few years have been a reckoning and reframing of everything I thought I believed and

  • Dear Birth Mom: One More Conversation with You

    Dear Birth Mom, If only I could rewind time to have one more conversation with you. I would hug you tight and thank you for giving me the best gift

  • The Sweetest Gift

    Dear friend, Not a day passes that I don’t think of the look on your face, as you prepared to place your 6 pound 9 ounce son in my arms,

  • Dear scared, pregnant, and alone:

    Dear scared, pregnant, and alone: My name is Elizabeth, and my birth daughter turned six today. It feels like yesterday that I was reading that life-altering pregnancy test while crying

  • Dear birthmom,

    Dear Birthmom, I want to encourage you today about the decision you have made. Having made this choice I know some of the feelings you may be experiencing. It is

  • A Letter to a Younger Me

    This letter is intended to reach birth mothers who don’t quite understand their emotions yet of a new placement or even an old one. I hope it reaches someone who

  • To My Daughter’s Birth Mother

    I've always wanted to give my daughters' birth mother a card for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, no such card exists. So I decided to write one to her (and every other

  • To My Son’s Birth Mother,

    Happy Mother’s day today and every day. It is a true honor to share today’s celebration with you. There is no other woman on Earth I will ever share this

  • Dear Brave Soul,

    I want to spend five minutes to remind you how much I admire you. How much you matter to me. It takes a lot of bravery to be in “our

  • Dear Adoption Triad

    I want you to read this with an open heart and open mind. It may very well challenge you. My hope is that it will inspire and encourage you more.