by Bambi Wineland | Feb 13, 2018 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel
How can you build deeper connections while traveling? It’s easier than you think! I sometimes refer to this notion as employing the “Chemicals of Connection” (the hormones your body produces that make you feel better). When you feel better, you...
by Bambi Wineland | Jan 25, 2018 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Heritage Journey, Our Children
A Trip to Your Child’s Birth Country. What Are The Goals and Desired Outcomes of Your Family’s Heritage Journey? If you’ve attended any of my workshops, you know that I talk about the need for setting goals and considering the desired outcome of a trip to...
by Bambi Wineland | Jan 17, 2018 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Birth Mother Search, Heritage Journey
Should we try to find our child’s birth family? I get asked that question a LOT! And there is no easy answer. As an adoptive parent, you know as well as I do, that the questions, if they haven’t already popped up, will come. How do you feel about a search? Are you the...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 22, 2017 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Heritage Journey, Heritage Travel
Happy holidays one and all! I love this time of year! It fills me with love, hope, and gratitude! I have so many things to be grateful for – family, friends, good health, that I get to have a business where I combine my two greatest passions in life – my love of my...
by Bambi Wineland | Dec 7, 2017 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Birth Mother Search, Heritage Journey, Our Children
I have spoken to many families over the last few months that are struggling with one simple question … When we go to our child’s birth country should we visit our child’s orphanage and/or foster family or birth family? So many parents struggle with this issue. There...
by Bambi Wineland | Nov 16, 2017 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Family Travel, Heritage Journey
I have so much Gratitude! Thanksgiving began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. I could look back on the past 12 months and see the anger and strife that often permeates our country or I can focus on the joy, strength,...
