Written for teens who were adopted, this compassionate workbook will help give you the strength, resilience and confidence you need to thrive-now and on into adulthood.

If you're like many other adopted teens, you may wonder about your birth family. You may question why you were given up. And you may even grapple with feelings of isolation, abandonment, and broken trust. These feelings are valid and deserve to be addressed. This workbook is designed to help you open the door to questioning, explore painful feelings and develop the skills needed to be a happy and grounded adult.

The Adopted Teen Workbook teaches powerful self-resiliency, mindfulness and somatic skills to help you explore your unique identity as an adopted teen. You'll find tools to manage loss and grief, and activities that include checklists, contemplations, skill-building, and journaling to help you chronicle present, past, and future relationships with both your adoptive and birth parents.

This workbook begins with your first recognition of having been adopted and the feelings that come with that. You will then explore memories of the past and begin work on understanding emotions of anger, shame, and loss. Finally, you'll learn ways to heal these wounds, learn to trust, and fully connect with both yourself and others.

About the Author

Barbara Neiman is a pediatric occupational therapist of thirty-five years, a yoga teacher, a body mind centering
practitioner, a national speaker on trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness strategies for professionals and adoption.
Barbara is the author of Mindfulness and Yoga Skills for Children and Adolescents and the card deck My Calm
Place: Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation Strategies for Children. She is an adoptive parent who accompanied her
young adult on a birth search journey.

Book Information
ISBN 9781684031412
Author Neiman, Barbara
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint New Harbinger Publications
Publisher New Harbinger Publications
Weight(grams) 380g
Dimensions(mm) 252mm * 202mm * 16mm