Therapeutic Parenting Book by Kristy Brosz
Healing with Pigtails:
Finding Hope in the Hard of
Therapeutic Parenting
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Healing with Pigtails is not your typical memoir on adoption. It seeks to dig deep into the experience of an adoptive family to explore the very nature of the adoption experience wrought with grief, loss, and trauma.
In recent years, evidence bases on developmental trauma are emerging with immensely promising information. This information provides clear messaging that unique parenting strategies are needed to support these children. However, despite these significant gains, there still remain gaps. One significant gap is relaying the psycho-social and emotional experience of therapeutic parents.
Therapeutic Parenting is not for the faint of heart. It is emotionally, physically, and spiritually draining in every moment of every day. It requires parents to enter a world of trauma to support tiny human beings through some of the most soul-breaking of circumstances. Healing with Pigtails strives to bring awareness of this uniquely difficult emotional experience. Above all else, Healing with Pigtails, serves as a reminder to those in the trenches to keep going as it is possible to find hopeful healing on the other side of a family surrounded by trauma.
Praise for Healing with Pigtails
“Healing with Pigtails is a raw book that brings a wide range of emotions to the surface. I am in awe of this family’s willingness to fight; that is something that cannot be taught nor bought. It is the difference between a family who lives life and a family who defies all odds and overcomes adversity. While reading it, I thought of two close friends who could benefit immensely from such very genuine words, I can not wait to purchase the book for them. After reading the section on “Coming Alongside Professionals” I immediately stopped reading and picked up the phone and called a friend. I told her that I think I have approached home studies all wrong. The wisdom in Healing with Pigtails is so profound, it will change my practice.”
~ Ashlee Holmes
"There are cries from the heart in Healing with Pigtails, both in empathy with a little child, and for parents loving this child. This is about two hopeful people finding themselves, hand in hand with a child, walking into a forest of darkness. They meet despair and discover many treacherous pathways. With much persistence they trek on, developing a deeper knowledge and wisdom, ultimately working their way to glimpses of sunlight, child still in hand, now a family. Any parent helping a deeply suffering child will find Healing with Pigtails indispensable for its practical help and understanding. Any friend observing others going through this challenge to family and sanity will want to intently read this book and share it with them.
~ Ruth Hart Budd
"Healing with Pigtails is a book filled with radical honesty, vulnerability, and courage wrapped in each sentence. This book tugged at me on so many levels, as a maternal woman who wants to protect our children, as a women with her own inner traumatized child, as a friend, as a human....it just spoke to me deeply. This book does not shy away from the light and dark aspects of Therapeutic Parenting, and yet I finished this read with a full heart and hope for a better world." ~ Stacey
" Healing with Pigtails is a must read for all adoptive parents and those supporting them. This book not only speaks to the experience that causes isolation and misunderstanding, but finds places of hope among this experience. Such understanding is precious within our family created through trauma. I so desperately wish there was a resource like this during the early days of forming our family through adoption, it would have brought such support when our family was ready to break apart. Healing with Pigtails takes the complexity of childhood trauma and makes it understandable for all those that enter this world looking for light and healing."
~ M. B.
" I have just finished reading Healing with Pigtails, with feeling of coming back from visiting my old friend. The author's personable writing style invites readers into her world to imagine what her family's adoption journey looks like; both the reality of therapeutic parenting and what expectations come with it. The challenges and struggles are well described. Practical tips are both empowering and educational. These hard realities are often on discussed in the adoption workshops and seminars. The author is telling a story of how hope and despair are coming tandem. The book provides an opportunity to view the life of parents with a high needs child and what healing can look like. Thank you for sharing your story."
~Hiroko
" I have just finished reading Healing with Pigtails. There are tears streaming down my cheeks. Author, Kristy Brosz, kept me in the present moment of her experience with eloquent writing from the heart, page after page. If you are an adoptive parent (any parent) in the momentary throes of despair, this book will become your beacon of hope. The questions are powerful. The answers are practical. You will not be able to put it down from start to finish."
~ Kit Deux