This is the Rosetta Stone for adoptees and the mothers who gave them up. If you are either, Adoption Healing is the book you read first for understanding the dynamics of being adopted and surrendering a child. Joe Soll has given us a thought-provoking handbook for discovering who we are. He leads us through the emotions of that discovery with compassion and gentle guidance. It's hard work, but you're not doing it alone.

The book gives a greater understanding of adoption and the great loss that surrounds us. But there is also hope within these pages. It's about finding yourself and beginning the healing process that can lead to a more joyful life. It helped me so much in working through the emotions of adoption that when I finished reading it, I went back to page one and started all over again. It's that good.

I am a 64 year old adoptee who had the good fortune to read about Joe Soll in the early 90's. It was not until 1998 that I joined his Adoption Crossroads support group in New York City, to explore and explain my own adoption issues. What an incredible eye-opening first meeting! Joe Soll leads and guides these weekly meetings for all involved in the adoption circle with an incredible understanding, intelligence, and sensitivity. As a adoptee himself he obviously knows of what he speaks.

In 2000 Joe shared his knowledge and expertise about adoption and its significant impacts in a book "Adoption Healing... a path to recovery". It is a amazing treatise on the psychological and emotional ramifications of child relinquishment and adoptions with guidance on how to start a recovery healing process.

Now 12 years later, Mr Soll has written an even more insightful, more powerful exploration of the plight of adoptees and natural mothers who have lost children to adoption. He calls this book "Adoption Healing ...a path to recovery-Supplement" but really it is a deeper probing of all the core adoption issues. His training and his years of counseling have given him a unique insight which he shares very gladly in this new book. He does suggest reading his first book "Adoption Healing" first. Understanding those concepts make this Supplement all the more meaningful.

This adoption stuff is very serious and Joe Soll writes very honestly and succinctly about the realities of adoption while clearly dispelling the myths. Everyone involved in an adoption has many losses both physical and emotional. Mr. Soll explains these losses, and then proceeds to offer exercises, visualizations, affirmations, and inner child techniques to help deal emotionally with these painful loses.
He wants his readers to first understand the problems and then to start the healing process so that they can take charge of their lives. He wants us to truly grieve our losses, channel our anger over the losses, and help our wounded inner child who suffered these losses recover.

This book is an absolute must read for anyone involved in adoption. It is riveting, profound, and absolutely essential for the mental well-being of natural mothers who have lost children to adoption and adoptees themselves. Bravo Joe Soll

Joe Soll has given us an updated addition to his previous Adoption Healing books. Now there is an opportunity to go further into the healing work of addressing the pain and confusion caused from the experiences of growing up as an adoptee or from being separated from your child through adoption. Most of the books about life after adoption are personal, or clinical. These books have been helpful, but Joe Soll's works are unique, and focus on doing actual therapeutic work. This supplement comes from Joe's work as a therapist and his own life experiences.