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Bridging the Oceans of my Heart, is the riveting story of a successful U.S. professional woman’s tumultuous journey to self acceptance over the hurdles of being gay, a foreigner and adopted. Her engaging book captures the hidden emotional torment adoption can carry even in the best of circumstances, the internal battles still born by gay people in our supposedly accepting world and the challenges of allegiance to two completely different countries and cultures. Kristine Stewart had arranged her life responsibly and lived by a code of honor yet still felt somehow incomplete. Bridging the Oceans of my Heart draws readers into the tumultuous journey that she, and so many others, take on the road to self-acceptance.
   Through three separate trips to her native Iceland over four years that helped establish intimate connections with six biological siblings that she never knew, and another two years later that threatened to dissolve her identity entirely, Stewart discovered that the bridge separating her from self acceptance and personal empowerment lay not between her two families, her two countries or between Kristine Stewart and the world but within herself. In a compelling and evocative manner, she vividly shares the mountains and valleys, the raging seas and turbulent harbors that brought her to this realization, this point of victory over internal demons.
   Though adopted, gay and of Icelandic heritage, Kristine Stewart’s journey is all of ours: one of surmounting obstacles that prevent us from being true to ourselves without distancing others, irrespective of circumstances or fear. Bridging the Oceans of my Heart bridges those of the reader, sharing a life of triumph and encouraging us to pursue the same.