A Place I Didn’t Belong: Hope for Adoptive Moms
What happens when our once peaceful homes become a war zone? Plenty! A Place I Didn’t Belong: Hope for Adoptive Moms validates the sometimes-devastating experiences of foster and adoptive parenthood while offering hope, practical coping strategies and an invitation to emotional healing and spiritual renewal. As both adoption social worker, and adoptive mom, Paula understands the heartbeat and the challenge of the noble call of adoption. Join her on this candid, grace-filled journey that begins in our mother’s heart and gently guides us to the place we do belong . . . right into our Father’s arms.
What people are saying…
“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.
“A hope-filled guide that is sure to encourage and inspire Christian adoptive mothers.”
Chuck Johnson
President and CEO National Council for Adoption
“As much as any expression of love, adoption can weave together both joy, heartache, beauty, and costliness. With candor and hard-won insight, Paula Freeman helps us to hold these seeming opposites together with grace. For those who harbor rose-colored illusions, she offers a frank corrective. For those whose illusions long ago became disillusionment, Freeman offers a pathway home to purpose, compassion, and joy.”
Jed Medefind
President and CEO, Christian Alliance for Orphans
Author: UPENDED
“Paula offers moms a safe place to explore and name the hurts they incur as adoptive parents, and permission to heal those wounds. I would definitely recommend A Place I Didn’t Belong to moms I work with.”
Jennifer Winkelmann, MA, LPC, NCC
Founder and Clinical Director
Inward Bound, Denver, Colorado
“Having known Paula for more than twenty years, I thought this book would be good. It isn’t good—it is excellent. The learnings are for deep places in our hearts as adoptive parents.”
Tom Wilkens, PhD
Executive Director
VitalChurch Ministry