By Laura Marie Scoggins A comment was made on the Surviving Adopted Facebook Page that I should change the title to Thriving Adopted because surviving has such a negative connotation. Here’s the difference: Thrive – grow or develop vigorously. to prosper and flourish. Survive – continue to live or exist in spite of danger or hardship, to remain alive, sustain oneself, pull through, hold on. I’m in the portion of…
By Laura Marie Scoggins I started playing piano at a young age. I think first grade. I’ve always loved music, and I think I would have been good at it except there was only one problem. My mother sitting on the couch next to the piano nagging, criticizing, nit picking, and yelling. Then I would start crying and refuse to practice anymore. That’s when the yard stick would come out….
By Laura Marie Scoggins Recently I scanned photos from family photo albums to digitize everything. They were photos from my parents childhoods all the way up to current day. One common theme I noticed was how miserable my mother looked in so many of those photos. What caused that look on her face? What demons was she fighting? What caused her to panic and obsessively worry about everything to the…