Podcast Episodes

Resilience Is Earned, Not Automatic: Why Adoptees Adapt (An Adoptee Remembrance Day Episode)

If you’re struggling, you’re not alone. In the U.S., call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line). Outside…

7 hours ago

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Adoptee Bodywork & Reiki: Meet Diane Maury, LMT, with Dr. Liz DeBetta | Un-M-Othered Retreat

For many adoptees, our earliest experience of touch was tangled up with separation. So what does it look like to let the body be held again, with car…

1 week ago

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Black-Market Baby: Patricia Knight Meyer on Wonderland, a Made-Up Birthday, and Learning Love Doesn’t Have to Mean Loss

In 1970, outside a Houston hospital, a couple pulled up to a curb and drove away with a newborn. No agency. No judge. No paperwork. That baby was Pat…

2 weeks ago

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Born Adopted: Paige Strickland on Searching Before the Internet, a Birth Father's Secret, and Telling Her Story in Verse

Paige Strickland was born in Ohio in 1961 and adopted as a baby, at a time when records were sealed and adoptees were expected to be grateful and nev…

3 weeks ago

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Open Adoption Didn't Fix Everything: Adopted Connor on "Proof of Life" Visits, Belonging Beyond DNA, and the Business of Adoption

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Adopted Connor on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook. He answers DMs, not comments.PatreonThe Primal Wound by Nancy V…

4 weeks ago

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Damon Davis on 279 Adoptee Interviews, Two New Books, and Being "a Branch on Someone Else's Family Tree"

Resources & Links Mentioned

- Who Am I Really? podcast - On all platforms

- Who Am I Really?: An Adoptee Memoir

- Updates on Damon's two forthcoming boo…

1 month ago

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Adopted Therapist Melissa LaCour on Why a "Good Adoption Story" Still Needs Healing

Resources & Links Mentioned

- Get *Belonging: A Guided Journey Through Adoption Wounds & Wisdom* (available on Amazon and as a digital download) - her…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Adoptive Mom Courtney White on Ending the "Grateful Adoptee" Story and Building a Parenting Tool That Actually Helps

Resources & Links Mentioned

Get Courtney's self-regulation tool for foster/adoptive parents hereCourtney on Instagram Parenting Different website

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Twice Delivered: An Ethiopian Adoptee on Faith, Grief & the Body He's Never Explored with Isaac Melber

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Twice Delivered by Isaac Melber

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

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The Enneagram for Adoptees: Untangling Who You Are From Who You Became to Survive with Jennifer Hiltebeitel

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2 months ago

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