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Dont' miss Thursday's important show. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. Join me at 3:00 CST as we hear from Cynthia about adoption. The world has overlooked and/or seriously underestimated the grief a mother incurs when she places her child for adoption, but God holds these women dear to His heart and His desire is for them to know and understand that fact. Adoption agencies across the country offer post-adoption counseling but many women are too heartbroken to continue the counseling once they give birth.
Cynthia is the author of Restorative Grief, and she understands all too well as she also is a birthmother that was too heartbroken to continue counseling. She decided instead to ask Jesus to walk her through it, to be her all-knowing Counselor. While her pain was at some points unbearable, with God, she emerged on the other side of adoption more complete than she had ever been. If you know someone who might be struggling with this, please tell them about this show.
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About Cynthia: Cynthia Christensen, her husband Eric, and her two boys, Kasey and Noah, reside in
Avondale, Arizona. Originally from Colorado, Cynthia is a trained crisis pregnancy counsellor as well as a birthmother counsellor. When she isn’t writing, she home-schools her children and is studying for her Bachelor’s Degree in Ministry. Most of Cynthia’s knowledge of pro-life issues has developed from experiences within her own life. Cynthia’s parents divorced before she was 2 and she began being sexually abused at around the age of four by a trusted family friend. This forever altered the course her life would take. As a child, she carried tremendous pain and shame for the indiscretions she suffered due to this betrayal of trust. This was only her childhood. Her scars ran deep, and she felt her value came from being desired. As she got older and searched harder for unconditional love and acceptance, she was willing to give anything in exchange for it.
This resulted in her having a total of 5 crisis pregnancies: 2 with her choosing to parent (one of which has special needs), 2 with her choosing abortion, and 1 with her choosing an adoption. Cynthia knows the hearts of women facing crisis pregnancies, and she understands it all to the very core of her being. She understands the cycles of abuse that many women go through in their relationships. She understands broken and hurting women. God has placed a burning passion inside her to help these women rise above their circumstances to become who God created them to be. Her heart’s desire is for women to see themselves as their Father God sees them, not how the world sees them.
Cynthia’s adoption experience was very open, and her son Joshua’s adoptive family has literally become her extended family. She didn’t realize that this was not the “normal” adoption experience until she starting meeting other birthmothers who were years out of their adoptions and still suffering. She found that many birthmothers had felt post-adoption counseling was too painful so they declined it. The women she heard give testimonies were short on value and heavy laden with baggage. Thus, they were going through their lives trying to cope with the grief and never coming full circle to the healing God meant for them to have. Although there were many stories, all it took was hearing a few for God to sear Restorative Grief into her heart.
Prior to Restorative Grief, Cynthia had never considered writing, let alone done any, bearing further testament that the writings in this book were completely God-inspired and written for the “soul” purpose of healing broken hearts. All she did was say, “Yes, Lord.” To learn more about Cynthia, visit her website at http://www.cynthiachristensen.com
About Cynthia's book: Birthmother grief, a type of grief many don’t know at all, yet some know all too well. The author, Cynthia Christensen, trudged through her own grief after the adoption of her son, Joshua. Being a private person, she did not want to do one-on-one counseling so she decided to travel the path with only one counselor, Jesus. Walking alongside Jesus proved to be not only healing but restorative, and life-changing.
While counseling at an adoption agency and talking with others whose lives have been touched by adoption, the author recognized that many post adoption birthmothers, birthfathers, or family members never fully recovered from the grief of adoption. Restorative Grief is a Bible study written for the sole purpose of restoring broken hearts and shattered lives, by dealing with the pain of separation that follows the extremely emotional events leading up to the relinquishment of a child.
Through her willingness to share the emotional and physical struggles she faced, Cynthia has used her experience to provide a step by step recovery process that will help lead the reader to a full recovery of mind, body and soul through the healing power and love of Jesus Christ. Restorative Grief should leave its readers ready to rise up from the ashes and stand tall, as Daughters of A King!
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