This week on Beauty is Rising, Kelli speaks with Melissa Smallwood. 

Melissa is a foster/adoption advocate, wife to Mike, mom to seven children, five of whom have been part of their family through adoption or foster care.

Using her professional experience, time in foster care as a child and over 20 years of being an adoptive parent, Melissa offers support and encouragement to foster and adoptive moms through an online support group and coaching services. 

She likes to instill in fellow foster and adoptive parents the belief that it is not our job to fix our child, nor look at them as a project. Rather, our job is to love our child the way they deserve to be loved, no matter what is going on.

Learn more by visiting MelissaSmallwood.com  on FB @melissasmallwoodwriter, instagram: @melissasmallwood