Inspiring Hope for the Journey

Author, Speaker, and Adoption Social Worker

Paula Freeman writes with candor and grace about what happens when life hijacks our plans and shatters our dreams. She inspires grace for the hard stuff and hope for the journey.

As the founder and former executive director of Hope’s Promise, a Colorado licensed adoption agency and international orphan care ministry, Paula wrote A Place I Didn’t Belong: Hope for Adoptive Moms, an invitation to emotional healing and spiritual renewal for adoptive moms of children from hard places. Her memoir, Learning to Be Me Without You isn’t just another book about grief and loss, dealing with grief, or the loss of a spouse. It serves up hope with a pinch of humor and the wonder of discovering the presence of God in the hard seasons of life.

A Place I Didn’t Belong: Hope for Adoptive Moms

What happens when adoption turns our homes into a war zone? Plenty! Paula has been there. Join her on this candid, grace-filled journey that begins in our mother’s heart and delivers us to the place we do belong . . . right into our Father’s arms.

Learning to Be Me Without You: A Story of Love, Loss, and Coming Home

Two weeks after their cross-country move into a land of strangers, Paula’s husband died. It was a loss she didn’t think she could survive. Until she said “yes” to an invitation that changed her life.

What people are saying about Paula…

“A Place I Didn’t Belong” is an extraordinary book addressing the often-unspoken and socially unrecognized wounds of adoptive moms. As an adopted person myself, I know my late mom would have been comforted and encouraged by this articulate, research-based, compassionate book.”

Sherrie Eldridge
Author of “20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew”
Founder, Jewel Among Jewels Adoption Network, Inc.

“Learning to Be Me Without You is a gift of words, and it is a gift beyond words. Join Paula in the pages as she walks each of us along a sacred path: through grief, yes, but most importantly, to the God whose endless grace paves each step.”

Tricia Lott Williford
Author, And Life Comes Back