Avoiding The Holiday Blues: Latest Release From Author, Sade Bradford-Bond

Avoiding The Holiday Blues: Support For People Who Experienced Foster Care During the Holiday Season

The most wonderful time of the year is often a source of sadness, depression, and anxiety for thousands of people who experienced the foster care system. The holiday season can be a bitter reminder of the separation from the people who matter most and time spent in foster care during milestone events that can never be reclaimed. Avoiding The Holiday Blues offers a practical approach to help support individuals who may feel sad during the holidays. It includes strategies that can be immediately implemented to help anyone who experienced foster care to avoid the dreaded holiday blues!

Comments

Opinion on Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy from a Foster Kid!

I can remember it like it was yesterday! The day that I got separated from my biological family has been seared into my memory for the last 21 years. It was a somber day. It was filled with dread, sadness, and anxiety as I put my life possessions into black trash bags: toys, clothes, and games…most of which I would never see again anyway. My siblings and I had no idea what fate awaited us as we piled into the back seat of the social workers car… a woman whom we would never see again either! Being separated from my family was devastating. The trauma that was produced from that early experience marked my adolescence with trust issues, problems with authority figures, and a battle with rejection that I continue to engage in to this day. After spending about 7 years in the Michigan foster care system, I can attest to the fact that it is an experience that no one should ever have to endure. My heart breaks when I view the images of children in distress after being separated from t...

Foster Kids To Trump: Families Belong Together!

Last week, I connected with a young man in foster care. I casually asked him about his weekend plans and he told me that he planned on attending the, “Families Belong Together” march in Phoenix, AZ with his peers who are also in foster care. I was pleasantly surprised at his response. To be honest, I was unaware that the march was taking place and I didn’t really know what it was about. Families Belong Together was a national march that recently took place in cities across the country on June 30th that aimed to protest the separation of immigrant children from their families at the US-Mexico border. I was impressed with his interest in protesting the separation of immigrant families because he expressed that he could relate to the impact of being a child taken away from his biological family. He spoke very passionately about his disagreement with the current presidential administration’s Zero Tolerance Policy on immigration and the negative effects that could potentially harm ...

Only A Mountain

Search This Blog