This lovely email arrived this morning from the mother of a girl adopted from Eastern Europe with whom we worked a decade ago. She is a testament to the fact that hanging in there has its long-term rewards.
“Vanessa is doing great! She’s a normally functioning teenager thanks to us seeing you and doing the exercises (she would scream when she would do them) and staying the course many years back.
Vanessa fought those exercises you had us do with her and we think it was the issues and past trauma ‘fighting to keep her brain trapped in the past with all its trauma”. It was like a breakthrough when she finished the exercises.
It’s sad more parents don’t reach out for this help. There is a girl we know: adopted from Russia at two years. Lots of behavioral issues and the parents never sought therapy, thinking the girl’s behaviors were a ‘phase’ that would go away. Today, at 17, this girl and Vanessa are night and day. The girl has social issues, sensory issues, and cognitive issues.”
For those of you dealing with adoption trauma, please feel free to contact us about finding a NeuroDevelopmental Movement® Consultant. As in Vanessa’s case, it has the ability to change lives.