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252 - Stoicism and Radical Acceptance
Season 16 Episode 252
Raised in the mountains of the midwest, Misty endured neglect and abuse when she was a child. She took matters into her own hands to separate from her family, survived a period in foster care, then …
Published on 5 months ago
251 - Adult-Adoptees.com, Dr. Amy Geller
Season 16 Episode 251
Dr. Amy Geller, from Wykoff New Jersey, had had an idyllic adopted life as the youngest child and the only girl in her family. But an accidental discovery put her in front of her adoptive parents f…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
119 - Refined By Fire
Season 6 Episode 119
Tezita (te zi TA) called me from Sacramento, CA, but she tells a harrowing story that originates in Ethiopia. Tezita’s adopted family had many other international adoptees, but she was singled out fo…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
113 - I Was Loved Everyday By People I Didn't Know
Season 6 Episode 113
Carrie called me from Lynchburg, Virginia. In her journey you’ll hear her talk about the moment she realized she was found, and how she was in contact with her birth parents at the same time one the …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
103 – Fixing The Fates
Season 5 Episode 103
Diane called me from St. Petersburg, Florida, but her’s is a story that originated in Germany. Diane tells the story of her parents wanting to form a family with her, but her grandmother frequently t…
Published on 6 months ago
108 - On The Outside Is Where I've Always Been
Season 5 Episode 108
Pam, from Emeryville, CA, told me her desire to search started when she was a kid, but it was Oregon’s laws that changed everything for her search. When she met her birthmother she encountered a woma…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
085 – A Bad Truth Is Better Than A Good Lie
Season 4 Episode 85
After the adoptive father she loved so much died, Alison learned her birth father, Tim, was looking for her and she took it as a good sign of things to come. Sadly she found herself disappointed in h…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
126 - Welcome Home
Season 6 Episode 126
Andrew lives in Murphy, Oregon, near Grant’s Pass but his is an east coast story. Andrew grew up kinda feeling like an odd man out in his family, not fitting his parents ideas of who he would be. In …
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
110 – We’ve Wanted This Our Whole Lives
Season 6 Episode 110
Jessica is a rare native, born and raised, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She shares how she found her biological relatives through DNA testing despite her best attempts to get information from the Mormon chu…
Published on 7 months ago
095 – I Tested Her To See If She’d Give Up
Season 5 Episode 95
Laura called me via Skype, would you believe, from Falkirk Scotland. Laura told the story of her childhood knowledge that she might have siblings out in the world, and her quest to meet them. When sh…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago