Belonging | A Workbook for Adult Adoptees
You’ve spent a long time carrying this. It’s time to put some of it down.
Belonging: A Guided Journey Through Adoption Wounds & Wisdom is a therapeutic workbook for adult adoptees who are ready to do the real work — on identity, grief, shame, intimacy, and everything in between.
Who This is For:
This was made for you if…
You've never quite felt like you fully belonged — anywhere
You carry grief about your adoption that others don't always understand
You find yourself more sensitive to rejection, more guarded in relationships, or more driven to control than you can easily explain
You've done okay — maybe even really well — and still feel like something is missing
You're ready to stop pushing the hard questions down and start actually answering them
What you’ll find inside Belonging
Nine chapters of honest, grounded work — covering the seven core emotional issues that shape the adoptee experience, plus two integration chapters that help you bring it all together.
Each chapter includes:
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Clear, validating explanations of what you're feeling and why
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Deep, open-ended questions that connect the concepts to your real life
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A therapeutic exercise to help you move the work from your head into your body
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Guided and open space to write freely
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Plus a full toolkit at the back: affirmations, grounding tools, a letter template, recommended resources, and extra journal pages to keep going.
Loss · Rejection · Guilt & Shame · Grief · Identity · Intimacy · Control
The Seven Core Issues — What We’ll Explore Together
These aren't just themes. They're the threads that run through every adoptee's story — often unnamed, often misunderstood, almost always present. This workbook gives them language, space, and room to heal.
Written from the inside out
I'm Melissa LaCour — a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Louisiana, and an adoptee.
I didn't write this workbook from a clinical distance. I wrote it because I know what it feels like to carry these questions without a place to put them. I know what it feels like to grieve something others think you should be grateful for, to long for connection while quietly keeping people at arm's length, to wonder who you would have been in a different story.
This workbook is the resource I wished I'd had. I hope it becomes something you return to again and again — not just once, but across every season of your life when this part of your story calls you back.
Belonging — A Guided Journal for Adult Adoptees
Purchase Options
Digital PDF — $21.49
Instant download. Print at home or use on any supported device. Don’t wait. Start today.
Print Edition — $34
A physical copy delivered to your door. Same complete workbook, beautifully printed.
You don’t have to keep carrying this alone.
This workbook won't resolve everything. But it will give you something that might be even more valuable: language for what you've been living, space to finally say it, and the slow, steady reassurance that what you feel makes complete sense. You belong here.