Lori Holden, MA, writes at the award-winning site, LavenderLuz.com. She’s the author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, written with her daughter's birth mom and acclaimed by people in all parts of the adoption constellation. She presents around the U.S. about openness in adoption. She's written for The Huffington Post, Parenting magazine, and Adoptive Families magazine. She lives in Denver with her husband and their two teenagers.