Healing with Pigtails: Finding Hope in the Hard of Therapeutic Parenting

Adoption requires parents to enter a world of trauma to support tiny human beings through some of the most soul-breaking of circumstances. Therapeutic parenting is needed to support the healing of adoptive children through a high structure, high nurture approach. However, therapeutic parenting is not for the faint of heart. It is physically and mentally exhausting. It is emotionally draining. It is spiritually challenging. It is isolating. It requires connections with endless systems that lack trauma-informed approaches. It requires consistent, unique parenting in a world that does not yet understand the lived experience of therapeutic parents and traumatized children. Healing with Pigtails digs deep into the emotional experience of an adoptive parent to explore the very nature of the therapeutic parenting, wrought with grief, loss, and an endless world of trauma.Above all else, Healing with Pigtails, serves to provide hope to those in the trenches to keep going as it is possible to find healing for all in a family surrounded by trauma.