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You know, building a family through adoption is a monumental choice that offers invaluable rewards from the fulfillment of providing a loving home to the joy of parenthood.

Adoption can also bring tough challenges as sometimes love and bonding don't happen naturally.

And that can lead to emotional distress and frustration. Well, joining us today is Dr.

Laurel Shailer, who is very familiar with adoption and has a strong passion for adoptive families.

Dr. Shailer has joined forces with Dr. Gary Chapman in the release of their new book,

Loving Adopted Children Well, a Five Love Languages

Approach. So Dr. Schaler is going to be sharing with us how the five love languages can help

adoptive families implement practical strategies to foster love, hope, and attachment during a time that can present unique struggles to families.

Dr. Laurel Scheler is a National Certified Counselor, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed professional counselor, and a licensed social worker.

She is a professor at Liberty University in the Department

of Counselor Education and Family Studies. Dr. Scheler is the author of Relational Reset on Learning

the Habits that Hold You Back in Reclaiming Sanity, Hope and Healing for Trauma, Stress,

and Overwhelming Life Events. Please welcome Dr. Shaler.

Well, thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to talk to you today. You know, this is a topic

that is very, very dear to my heart because I actually come from the flip side of not being an adoptive

parent, but I was actually given up for adoption when I was a baby. So as I was reading all of your

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