by Bambi Wineland | Dec 24, 2019 | Adoptive Family Travel, Birth Country Travel, Heritage Travel
Season’s greetings family and friends,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, and that I have a business where I combine my two greatest passions in life – my...
by Bambi Wineland | Jan 3, 2019 | Adoption related issues
Same ole, same ole … we make New Year’s resolutions and break them within a few weeks. But I do believe one of the best ways to begin my year is with intentions. So I’m going to shift my thinking from resolute to intent. And I choose to do the best I can. In keeping...
by Bambi Wineland | Aug 2, 2018 | Adoption related issues
Am I lovable? That’s a tough one to hear, huh? But creating intimacy and deeper relationships is a skill — and one we can learn. As difficult as this conversation has been, the discussion about intimacy and relationships is definitely the hardest for me....
by Bambi Wineland | Jul 26, 2018 | Adoption related issues
Continuing the discussion on how adoption impacts our children, let’s talk about attachment and bonding. As I said in the beginning of this conversation, “Although we use the terms loosely, there is an identifiable difference between ‘attachment’ and ‘bonding’....
by Bambi Wineland | May 29, 2018 | Adoption related issues
Guilt and Shame – I must have been a bad child. Beginning with the first post on this topic dated April 19th, we’ve been discussing how adoption impacts our children. As I said from the beginning, researching the issues related to adoption took me by...