A Place I Didnt Belong validates the sometimes devastating experiences of adoptive parenthood while offering hope, practical coping strategies, and spiritual renewal for the journey ahead. The trajectory of unmet expectations, our childrens compromised beginnings, and the wounds we carry into our adoptions conspire to take us to a place we didnt belong. Insights on emotional healing help us reclaim hope for our adoption journey. This is not a how-to or a ten-easy-steps-to successful parenting program. Its about real life, real women, and real struggles. Its about relationships and community. Its about reclaiming ourselves as women when adoption dreams shatter. Its about a journey that begins in our mothers heart, and delivers us to the place we do belong?- into our Fathers arms.