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Adoption Trauma Presentation Content
Adoption trauma (also called relinquishment trauma) is a fresh topic not often found in mental health or adoption and foster care meetings. If you want your audiences to be engaged and leave with invigorated thinking around adoption trauma, Paula’s presentations are just what you need!
And there’s no cookie-cutter presentations ever… Paula prides herself on getting to know the information needs of her audiences and curating precisely what they want. Consultation around presentation expectations and objectives guide her content development process.
Possible Topics
Finding Joy in the Journey: A Playbook for Living with Adoption Trauma
This presentation takes audiences on a journey from the early years of child-rearing to current parenting of an adult child. You’ll hear how she evolved her thinking and actions based on the knowledge she acquired throughout tumultuous times. She’ll share how she found joy despite the roller-coaster years of drama, frustration, and tears.
Mind Over Circumstances: The Power of Brain Training for Turbulent Times
This presentation focuses on how Paula used various techniques to help manage vicarious/secondary trauma. Through trial and error, much research and attention to her own self-care, she demonstrates how she retrained her brain from being reactionary to prepared.
Compassion Resilience: Battling the Fatigue of Adoption Trauma
This presentation discusses the fatigue of parenting a child living with adoption trauma. The daily and long-term impact of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion left her empty and numb but never stopped her from loving amidst her own challenges. She openly shares her resiliency secrets!
Inner Peace: The Power, Place and Perspective of Prayer for Adoption Trauma
This presentation is a spiritual lesson demonstrating how Paula relied on and grew her faith in the darkest of times. She shares her prayer process that carried her into the light of daily living and continues to provide the foundation for her passionate decision to share her journey as part of her life’s purpose.
Secondary Trauma: The Impact of Adoption Trauma on the Family Unit
This presentation shines a spotlight on the family dynamics when a child is living with adoption trauma. Exposure to symptomatic behaviors is overwhelming, scary and even traumatic, often leaving marks on family members for years to come. Thus, siblings, parents and caregivers often require their own mental wellness support, as is the case in Paula’s family.