Lori Holden
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Lori Holden

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Lori Holden is recognized as an expert in the complexities of adoption. "The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption" is on required reading lists at adoption agencies in the US and Canada, and her award-winning blog LavenderLuz has helped countless adoptive families navigate their most tricky situations since 2007. Lori interviews insightful guests on her podcast Adoption: The Long View, helping adoptive parents grasp how they can better serve the deepest needs of the adoptees they love. Lori originated the Open Adoption Grid and collaborated on the resulting Inclusive Family Support Model. Lori is a re-imaginer and reformer of how to better center policies and practices on the adoptee. She and her co-authors Sara Easterly, an adoptee, and Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, a birth mom, wrote the acclaimed and groundbreaking "Adoption Unfiltered," which reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptions: adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents. Nominated by Senator Michael Bennet, Lori was honored as an Angel in Adoption® by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. She is a sought-after speaker for adoption and child-welfare agencies, parent support groups, and adoption conferences and camps. She coaches individuals and couples around adoption-related issues. Besides a passion for reforming adoption, Lori is also a dedicated yogini. Yoga’s inherent “yoking” informs the framework she has developed on how to parent more intentionally, for example by shifting from an Either/or mindset to a BothAnd heartset. With her sister Sheri Fisher, Lori has co-authored "Standing Room Only | How to Be THAT Yoga Teacher" from the Root To Rise Yoga Teaching Method. Lori and her husband raised their daughter and son in Denver and have now launched them into young adulthood. To say they are proud of Tessa and Reed becoming fully themselves is a big old duh.
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