When Safety Triggers Fear

Understanding Why Children in Foster and Adoptive Care Struggle After Things Get “Better”

  • Alina Salisbury
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I still remember the first time I felt safe enough to fall apart. My adoption story began with loss, though I didn’t have language for it as a child. I knew I was loved. I knew I belonged.  And yet, there were moments when sadness, anger and confusion would surface without warning. I would cry […]

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About the Author

Alina Salisbury

Alina Salisbury is a licensed marriage and family therapist, adoptee and writer. She was born in Latvia and adopted as an infant, and her personal story deeply shapes her work supporting adoptees and their families. Through a trauma-informed, attachment-based and faith-aware lens, Salisbury writes and practices with a focus on identity, loss, belonging and the lifelong impact of adoption. She is also the founder of Fully Grace Counseling. Her work is rooted in helping individuals and families create space for complexity, healing and grace across the adoption journey.

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