Mother Me, An adopted woman's journey to motherhood

'Mother Me' is about Zara's personal journey to motherhood from an adoptee's point of view. 'Mother Me' has been published by BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering) in the UK and was released on March 3rd 2008. This is an intensely personal and compelling memoir in which Zara describes her feelings and explores her relationships with her adoptive and birthmothers, and invites the reader to join her in her own journey to becoming a Mother. "It seems that birthing my children was also a birth for my whole self," Zara writes. She regularly talks and facilitates workshops and events related to adoption issues, along with performing her music at clubs in NYC and New Jersey.

Publication date: March 3rd, 2008. For more information, visit www.baaf.org.uk

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Testimonials

Kate Hilpern, journalist, adoptee and mother :

"As an adoptee who recently gave birth, I have been struck by how much adoption has re-entered my psyche. Phillips explores this issue in Mother Me with a rare and profound insight and contextualises it around her fascinating story. It's an important topic and high time that. somebody explored it."

Nimmy March, Actor, adoptee and mother of three :

"As an adoptee and mother of three myself, Zara H. Phillips and her book Mother Me has touched parts that no other could even know existed. Hurrah for Zara H. Phillips! She has compassionately expressed, with at times alarmingly forthright clarity, so much that is hard to articulate about the adoption experience."

Darryl McDaniels, DMC, Hip-Hop Artist and adoptee :

"Zara's book captures all the feelings, thoughts and emotions of what all adoptees actually go through, even though there are a lot of different situations we experience, in some ways our journeys are similar. And even as intense as it gets.....it can at times be hilarious, and that's nothing to be ashamed of. I laughed, I cried and I said to myself.....this is totally insane! But the fact that she told the truth about what she felt made it "all good", like we say in the hood! "

Bob Geldof, Musician, Activist :

"This is a brave and compelling book. It's also a probably much needed 'how to' and 'why to' step by step guide through the awful emotional turbulence of adoption. Zara was always talented and driven. Now I know why."

Links & Resources

http://www.americanadoptioncongress.org

http://chosen-babies.com
A new site for adoptees to chat.

http://www.marlourussellphd.com

http://www.nancyverrier.com

http://www.norcap.co.uk

http://www.unlockingtheheart.com