{"product_id":"bridging-resilience-mary-ann-mcmillan-9798384522034","title":"Bridging Resilience: A Guide to Healing for Adoptees and Former Foster Youth, Families, and the Leaders Who Walk with Them","description":"What if the healing we long for isn't found in returning to the past, but in learning how to carry it forward with wisdom, faith, and honesty? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBridging Resilience: A Guide to Healing for Adoptees and Former Foster Youth, Families, and the Leaders Who Walk with Them\u003c\/i\u003e is a compassionate, spiritually rooted guide for adoptees and former foster youth, and for the parents, caregivers, and leaders who walk alongside them. Written by a former foster child and adoptee, this book blends lived experience, therapeutic insight, and biblical reflection to explore the lifelong impact of early separation, identity disruption, and attachment trauma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With grace and courage, \u003ci\u003eBridging Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to the complex realities of adoption and foster care. It offers language for grief, tools for healing, and vision for what redemption can look like across generations and systems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book is organized into three sections: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Between Bridges and Ruins: Healing for Adoptees and Former Foster Youth, which speaks directly to adoptees and those who have aged out of foster care. It gives voice to the invisible wounds of identity loss, gratitude pressures, and fragmented family ties. This section gently affirms the complexity of adoptee grief while offering both faith and therapy as healing companions. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sacred Privilege: A Call to Parents and Guardians, which is written for adoptive, foster, and kinship caregivers. It invites parents and guardians to approach their role as sacred stewardship--not saviorhood--rooted in humility, cultural awareness, and lifelong commitment. It addresses trauma responses, identity development, and what it means to stay when love feels inadequate. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Reimagining Care: Systems, Churches, and Global Orphan Work, which challenges churches, systems, and global orphan advocates to move beyond shallow charity and toward justice. It critiques harmful language, confronts savior narratives, and calls for listening to lived experience. This section offers a new vision--one where care is ethical, informed, and shaped by proximity. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether you're walking through your own healing, raising a child from hard beginnings, or shaping systems that serve them, \u003ci\u003eBridging Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e is an invitation to step into the hard and holy work of healing. To listen closely. To love better. And to believe that even in broken beginnings, there is still room for restoration. Healing is possible. Connection is possible. And together, we can bridge the gap. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Ann McMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798384522034\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e B\u0026amp;H Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mary Ann McMillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114064457983,"sku":"9798384522034","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_edae2032-f80a-48e1-8c9b-6e3b90f591af.jpg?v=1769618882","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bridging-resilience-mary-ann-mcmillan-9798384522034","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}