Author Archives: Allison Hurst, MS, LPC

However we spin it, I am his mother. But so is she. Two parallel truths that everyone – the birth parents, the adoptive parents, and the maturing child – will all have to reconcile at some point in their lives. – Ashley Mitchell, founder of Lifetime Healing Foundation (quote from an article posted for the […]

I approach this topic with a myriad of emotions. My palms are a little sweaty; my brain is unfocused, and the combination of words I want to say seem to all come out wrong. Almost two years ago I paused my professional work with birthmothers and women in unplanned pregnancies when my own daughter was […]