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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.

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 trying to raise 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 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 hurting kids 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 the adoption story of their loved one unravel.My family has lived our own version of hope and hell in learning what real love looks like for these children. It took our marriage to the brink, our own personal mental health to its limits, our family to some dark places—but we came out in a brighter place. We surfaced with the support of our community, our dedication to making it, and a whole lot of prayer. Before I was raising kiddos with attachment disorders, I was therapeutically supporting families who were. And now I want to offer this hope and help to you.Parenting Children of Trauma brings you everything I've learned as mama, friend, and counselor, in a new and easy-to-understand way through:Demystifying attachment disorders and the impact of complex emotional trauma on our homes and society.Breaking down current treatment options for attachment disorders.Equipping you with information, strategies, and stories to know you are not alone or powerless in your own home.Resources to help the friend or family member who wants to support adoptive/foster families.Walk with me through understanding trauma to alleviate fear and doubt about who you are, who they are, and what your future holds. Because parenting children of trauma will take you to the lowest parts of your existence, only to raise you back up again with a new resilience, a new freedom, a new compassion, and a whole new framework through which to see and love your child.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.What’s stopping you from reclaiming your heart, your home, and your hope? If you’re ready to live free of shame, full of hope, and safe in your own home, then this is your book.

Los niños merecen un lugar seguro para vivir y crecer y aprender. Para algunos niños, esto significa vivir con padres adoptivos o de crianza. El suéter de Speranza narra la experiencia de un niño que atraviesa el sistema de crianza y de adopción. Speranza carga su suéter en todas partes, reteniendo los últimos recuerdos de su nacimiento, hasta los últimos hilos. A si como su suéter se deshace, Speranza debe tejer una nueva historia, incorporar hilos de su pasado y los filamentos de su presente, un futuro de amor, familiar y el verdadero significado de un hogar.En esta historia conmovedora y reconfortante, se le ofrece a cada niño la oportunidad de sentir y experimentar auténticamente su propia historia. Por medio del desenredar y re-tejer de un suéter favorito, la historia ofrece esperanza y apoyo para tanta mezcla de emociones que un niño experimenta durante su viaje de cuidado en crianza y adopción. Speranza también introduce a cada niño aportar la experiencia de adopción y crianza que pasa algún compañero de clase, amigos o miembros de la familia. Al leer la historia de Speranza con su hijo, y discutir la experiencia de un niño en una situación similar, usted puede crear un espacio seguro para hablar sobre sentimientos de dolor, pérdida, entusiasmo, confusión, enojo, tristeza, o cualquiera de los muchos sentimientos que acompañan una separación, cuidado de crianza u adopción.El suéter de Speranza también incluye un diccionario de palabras como idioma utilizado que faculta a niños y a sus cuidadores.

Los niños merecen un lugar seguro para vivir y crecer y aprender. Para algunos niños, esto significa vivir con padres adoptivos o de crianza. El suéter de Speranza narra la experiencia de un niño que atraviesa el sistema de crianza y de adopción. Speranza carga su suéter en todas partes, reteniendo los últimos recuerdos de su nacimiento, hasta los últimos hilos. A si como su suéter se deshace, Speranza debe tejer una nueva historia, incorporar hilos de su pasado y los filamentos de su presente, un futuro de amor, familiar y el verdadero significado de un hogar.En esta historia conmovedora y reconfortante, se le ofrece a cada niño la oportunidad de sentir y experimentar auténticamente su propia historia. Por medio del desenredar y re-tejer de un suéter favorito, la historia ofrece esperanza y apoyo para tanta mezcla de emociones que un niño experimenta durante su viaje de cuidado en crianza y adopción. Speranza también introduce a cada niño aportar la experiencia de adopción y crianza que pasa algún compañero de clase, amigos o miembros de la familia. Al leer la historia de Speranza con su hijo, y discutir la experiencia de un niño en una situación similar, usted puede crear un espacio seguro para hablar sobre sentimientos de dolor, pérdida, entusiasmo, confusión, enojo, tristeza, o cualquiera de los muchos sentimientos que acompañan una separación, cuidado de crianza u adopción.El suéter de Speranza también incluye un diccionario de palabras como idioma utilizado que faculta a niños y a sus cuidadores.

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.

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.