Hope O. Helder & Liz Pryor
Category: The Birthparent Experience
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1h 28m
Speaker, birthmother, and author of the memoir Finding Hope: A Birthmother’s Journey into the Light, Hope O. Helder talks about building resilience and learning to thrive despite the circumstances life throws you. In conversation with moderator, advice columnist, and birthmother Liz Pryor, author of the memoir Look at You Now: How Keeping a Teenage Secret Changed My Life, this session gives an unvarnished and nuanced look at adoption from a birthmother perspective, giving adoptive parents, adopted people, and adoption professionals the opportunity to better understand what birthparents need in order to build resilience and thrive.
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