Do you ever feel confused about what went wrong in your foster or adoption story? Are you fearful about the future of your marriage and your children? Do you ever feel overwhelmed and desperate for help? You are not alone. Many foster and adoptive parents are raising children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, these families find themselves with shattered dreams, shattered homes, and shattered hearts, with nowhere to turn for answers. Extended family members, friends, and the greater community don't understand the challenges and can sometimes add to the problems these families face, sometimes prolonging the healing process for all. Attachment disorder is cruel. This book is for the wonderful-hearted people who stepped into adoption with dreams of loving a child to wholeness, only to find that children who hurt sometimes hurt people. This book is for parents who feel overwhelmed, desperate, and depleted. Or for the friend or family member who has watched the adoption story of their loved one unravel and felt helpless. Marcy Pusey’s family has lived their own version of hope and hell in learning what real love looks like for these children. It took their marriage to the brink, their own personal mental health to its limits, their family to some dark places—but they came out in a brighter place. They surfaced with the support of their community, their dedication to making it , and a whole lot of prayer. Before Marcy was raising kids with attachment disorders, she was therapeutically supporting families who were. And now she offers this hope and help to you. Parenting Children of Trauma brings you everything she’s learned as mama, friend, and counselor, in a new and easy-to-understand way by: Demystifying attachment disorders and the impact of complex emotional trauma on our homes and society. - Breaking down current treatment options for attachment disorders. - Equipping you with information, strategies, and stories to know you are not alone or powerless in your own home. - Resources specifically for the friend or family member who wants to support adoptive/foster families. Whether you're already in this situation, thinking about stepping into it, or know someone who is in it, this book will help you set realistic expectations, redefine love, and walk away with actual tools to change the climate of your heart and your home. Scroll to the top and click the “buy now” button "Like Marcy, I was a trained therapist who had specific training in trauma-informed care, attachment disorders. I had worked with numerous kids of various ages who were adopted, or in the foster care system. I thought I was ready when my husband and I decided to bring our first foster child home. Instead, we went through many of the difficulties that Marcy described in this book. We were clueless, and my training failed me. While we struggled, I read resource after resource about parenting kids with attachment disorders. None of them rang as true as this book does! As I was reading her words, I kept shaking my head, and highlighting long passages. Marcy is RIGHT ON with her descriptions, her insight, and her applicable advice. I only wish I had this book when we had kids in our house! I will be buying several copies and sending them to my friends who have children with attachment issues. I know it will be one of the best, most helpful books they have ever read. I have no doubt this book will validate their difficult experiences, while helping them find ways to love their children, and maintaining a greater level of sanity in the household." --Mia Montgomery "Author Marcy Pusey, is an expert in the field of childhood trauma, attachment disorders, foster care and Adoption. She brings to the table her personal and professional experience and valuable insights through her parenting journey. Through her book she walks this journey along side of you. This book is chock-full of information backed by current research and the latest updates on the topic. You can save yourself hours of research by finding true and tested wisdom in the pages of this book. This book is wholistic in that she offers help and wisdom for the "parenting" job as well as for the "parent". Personally, being someone who has been on the path of recovery from trauma in my own attachment history, I found this book very helpful. Although I'm not a foster or adoptive parent, I found insights that I can use in my own parenting. I highly recommend this book." --Anita Oommen "This book brought tears to my eyes and put into words better than I could express the challenges we face raising an adopted child with AD. I have been searching for help for 7 years and this is the greatest resource I have found yet! Marcy's faith in God and her knowledge about Attachment Disorder from the perspective of a mom and therapist is exactly what I needed, and intend to use to share with others around me who are in my daughter's