Adoption Affirmations provides you positive thoughts to say to yourself for each part of your adoption journey and even some for your loved ones to say. You will also find a few tender thoughts that your child-to-be may say to you someday. There are nearly 80 Affirmations in all to help you remain hopeful, confront your fears with grace, feel in control during the highs and lows, and increase your joy. Adoption Affirmations is unique in that it is also a flipbook of a growing tree to provide you visual inspiration. As your hope grows, so too does the realization of your own family tree.

Adoption Affirmations is for several groups of people. First and foremost, it is for everyone who is considering becoming an adoptive parent or are already in the midst of their adoption journey. This book will also be an extremely helpful guide for the family members, friends, and colleagues of anyone considering adoption or already pursuing adoption. In order to provide continued hopeful support, the book is an invaluable tool as well for anyone who works in adoptions and with families such as adoption facilitators, adoption attorneys, social workers, doctors, therapists, and educators/teachers, as well as for faith-based leaders such as ministers, rabbis, priests, and also support group facilitators.

Keri Gee Semmelman is the lucky mom of a bubbly daughter whom she and her husband adopted at birth. Prior to adopting such a miracle baby (as she weighed only 1½ pounds), they endured a five-year journey that included a couple of adoptions that fell through and numerous other hopefuls. Yet, every experience was meaningful beyond words. In addition to being a doting mom, Keri Gee does community relations work and is an award-winning speaker and presentation trainer, as well as a happiness historian and poet. She has taught on college campuses and actively served on numerous nonprofit boards revolving around helping families and keeping children safe. Her work has led to earning a commendation from former First Lady Barbara Bush and receiving many other distinguished honors. In addition to this book, Adoption Affirmations, several others are in the works. She and her family reside in Orange County, California

Nikki Biers was already a wife and the mother of four children when she became passionate about adopting. She first worked in the field of adoptions in 1991 at an adoption law firm. After remarrying, she did an extensive four years of study to help those in need—both spiritually and physically—which included advocating for pregnant mothers. During that time, she and her husband became adoptive parents, and they opened The Best Gift Adoptions as registered adoption facilitators. During their journey, their second attempted adoption involved the heartbreak of a birth mom reclaiming the baby. Sadly, the child died two weeks later. Never giving up hope and always an inspiration, they went on to fulfill their family tree. This is Nikki’s second book. First, she authored a step-by-step information-packed book called Adoption: The Best Gift—A handbook for prospective adoptive parents. Highly respected in the field, she has assisted in more than 600 successful adoptions and been featured on radio. She and her family reside in California’s San Fernando Valley.