Quality Of Relationship With Kathleen Shiels

Thriving Adoptees by Simon Benn

Oct 12, 202600:47:35Kids & family

“Relationship-based trauma must be healed relationally.” Dr Karyn Purvis, co-founder of TBRI. For adoptees, separation from our birth mother can be our first relational wound so safe, loving relationships can help us hea...

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