Born Scared: When Anxiety was Created in the Womb, at Birth, or in Prior Lifetimes, and How Finding the Cause Leads to the Cure

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For those who feel as if they came into this world afraid, or whose child is fearful for no discernible reason and ask, “Why do I have this? Why is it happening to me or my child?” Born Scared provides answers. Through the use of fascinating case stories, hypnotherapist, Julia Ingram, demonstrates that when clients are prompted to go to …

But I adopted my child at birth. What do you mean trauma?

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BY: ALEX STAVROS, President and CEO, Calo Family of Programs It is not uncommon for adoptive parents to come to us feeling out of options for their difficult child and overwhelmed about what could have created all of these DSM diagnoses and intense feelings and behaviors.  Especially if the child was adopted at or near birth. “We adopted our son …

We are approaching the one year anniversary of Hyunsu’s brutal death.

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As we welcome the New Year and continue seeking justice for our baby brother Hyunsu, we also are approaching the one year anniversary of his brutal death. I have created this fundraiser page to purchase either a headstone for Hyunsu’s gravesite here in the US, or a memorial plaque to be placed in his memory in Korea, depending on what is the best possible …

Guatemalan Kidnapping / American Adoption

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Karen Abigail Monahan is ten years old and lives with her mom and dad, Jennifer and Timothy Monahan, in Liberty, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. She is likely in the fifth grade and undoubtedly knows that she was adopted from Guatemala. Someday soon, this little girl will sit at a computer and type her own name, or that of …

Fly Away Home

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How does it feel for a child, who already has a family, to be adopted by strangers never to go back home? Here’s the harrowing reality behind the practices of some international adoption agencies. Journee Bradshaw was already 13 and came from a large, middle-class Ethiopian family when she arrived in the US. She thought she was going on a …