Anna Maria DiDio, MSW
Adoption Life Coach
About Me
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When I had my first miscarriage at age twenty-eight, the bricks holding up my marriage came tumbling down and we divorced soon after.
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I remarried at age thirty-four and had another miscarriage.
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We began an open adoption process.
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As we waited to be selected by a birth mother, I discovered that I was pregnant and we had a beautiful baby girl.
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Three years later after another miscarriage, we began an open adoption process again and after two years on the waiting list, the adoption agency closed without warning.
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After months of soul searching, we initiated an international adoption plan and successfully welcomed a seven-year-old girl from an orphanage in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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Family life did not go as planned.
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I wrote a book about our journey to expand the conversation around adoption and to prepare parents for the simultaneous joyous and tumultuous ride ahead.
MY Services
BIO
Anna Maria holds a BA in Psychology from Villanova University, and MSW in Family Specialization from the University of Pennsylvania. An Adoption L.I.F.E. Coach, she has assisted many families struggling as they wait for the completion of their adoption plan. Anna Maria has also provided valuable input on adoptive family adjustment issues.
As a corporate HR Professional, she has coached senior leaders across many industries. Serving as a trusted advisor on all human capital matters, she specializes in Executive Coaching, Facilitation/Mediation, Employee Relations, Performance Management, and Leadership Development.
For over twenty years, Anna Maria DiDio has devoted her time and talents to many non-profit organizations focusing on women, girls, and families in the US and developing countries. She is currently President-elect of Women International Leaders (WIL) of Greater Philadelphia, which provides micro-finance loans and Giving Circle grants to women living in extreme poverty.
Anna Maria is the mother of two young wonderful women and loves to travel, cook, shop and watch movies with them – together or separately – depending on any number of mitigating factors. She never says no to a chocolate chip cookie and lives in Philadelphia with her husband Richard.
Anna Maria's travel writing and other essays can be found on The Bean's Talk – her Medium publication.
In June of 2019 Anna Maria published Love at the Border, An Adoption Memoir from Mexico. This is the true story of how her family was created and it is now available on Amazon.
