"It is important for a child to have lots of healthy relationships with adults but a child with [attachment issues] they need to get the relationship with their primary caregivers down first.”  

In this episode of Coffee with Caregivers, Jess sits down with author Shannon Guerra, an Alaskan, homeschooling mama of 8 kids via birth and adoption. She is the author of  Upside Down: Understanding and Supporting Attachment in Adoptive Families, Oh My Soul: Encountering God in Unconventional, Honest (and Sometimes Messy) Prayer, and the Work That God Sees series. Jess and Shannon discuss what attachment disorder looks like in children and how it often presents in adoption. They also discuss how important it is for people to understand that the attachment must occur with the primary caregivers before all other attachments. This was a raw, vulnerable conversation as both mamas shared their experiences with adoption and how the church needs to step it up and see adoption and foster care as mission fields right in their own backyards. To learn more about Shannon and her story visit copperlightwood.com.  

#RAD #attachmentdisorder #adoption #specialneeds 

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