Every adoptive parent should be here Every adoptive parent should be here! Clearly this is a place where people understand me and my children, they know what we’re walking through, and they have so much wisdom and love to share. Before we joined, we were stressed and having daily battles. Now we understand where our kids are coming from and we have the skills to help them through it rather than battling against them. And attachment has grown so much in the process!

Our family was blessed to be introduced… Our family was blessed to be introduced to The Attach Place as a means to addressing the mental health issues due to the COVID crisis. Having absolutely no therapeutic resources (in the entire five years since I had adopted my two girls), I jumped at the opportunity. It has been hands down the best decision for our family. I did have previous suggestions from other resources for how to get my kids in line (as if this was the goal), my own experience as a child, and what I saw mirrored from families who do not have children from difficult beginnings. None of those examples worked for us, which left me feeling alone and fearful of the future. Our situation wasn’t getting better, only worse. After some time in Theraplay, and completing work in the Love Matters Parenting Society resources, I have a success story almost weekly. I see change in how we communicate, and I am on way to parenting the way I always hoped I could - with some compassion, patience, and as a model of security and stability that my children crave. I am most thankful for the graciousness of the staff, and the parents in LMP support group. The mottos of #bettertogether and No Blame, No Shame help to create a safe place to learn, heal, and grow as a family.

The Attach Place & Love Matters Parenting Win the Prize "Before the adoption, I could imagine the deep love I'd feel for my child. I could imagine the joy. I could not imagine how the behaviors would send me almost over the brink. Help!" The love and joy are real--and so are the inner wounds that can create such pain and disarray in our child's life and in ours. Ce Eshelman, LMT, has been through this big-time, and she shares her heartaches, triumphs, and wisdom with us at The Attach Place and in her book, "Drowning with my Hair on Fire; Insanity Relief for Adoptive Parents." And, if you are a member of Love Matters Parenting, you also get an international Facebook therapeutic-parenting family you can lean on for support and advice. And, an in-depth curriculum on how to help not just your child, but YOU too (that's in reverse order, though, Ce will tell us). And weekly discussion groups with Ce and other parents that guide you through the curriculum. All of this together has made an incredible, deep-down difference for me and my family. Better than anything else I've tried or joined. If you're a struggling adoptive parent, you have found home.

Ce is an amazing resource for parents at all stages Ce is amazing. Professional practical and able to be very personal. Even though I'm parent of an adult, the insights and perspective and sense of shared perspective have been very worthwhile. I've learned stuff I would have used decades ago, but I've been able to make it inform my relationship with my now adult child who is now herself a parent. I bring lessons learned about self-regulation, about therapeutic parenting, about being there with love first before you try to do any 'work', So very very valuable.

From overwhelm to peace The Attach Place and Loves Matters Parenting Society support and therapeutic parenting class has been life changing. I was struggling as a grandparent who has become the guardian of my granddaughter. We lost her mom to drugs and then suicide in 2020. It was devastating for both of us and we spiraled down to a point where I wasn’t sure I would be able to keep caring for her. Just months before I joined my granddaughter who was 9, was in and out of the hospital, on several kinds of medication with no effect, and I was having to call the police because of extreme aggression or threats of harm to self and others. My friend had recently started the Love Matters Parenting Society and shared the link. Desperate for any kind of support I signed up and from the moment of hearing that first video intro song I knew this was something, there was a glimmer of hope. I went all in watching the videos, joining the Facebook group, and then coming to the weekly zoom groups. Things started getting better as I focused on connection before correction and built our relationship back. I have to say that with the amazing guidance, support from the groups and the therapeutic parenting material there is no more extreme aggression, destruction, or hopelessness. We are on our way. Has it been or is it now easy? No. But it’s worth it and it is a more effective and long term solution.