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The Art of Holding on and Letting Go
Episode 4
Laurie James is an adoptee, mother, caregiver, turned author, and transformative
coach. Laurie’s book, Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting …
3 years, 10 months ago
Awakening to a Compassionate Nature
Episode 3
Danielle’s vision is a healthier, happier, and more peaceful world starting from within. Bringing over two decades as a senior instructor, healer, an…
3 years, 11 months ago
An Adoptee Becomes an Advocate
Episode 2
Nikole Shaw also known as " Koko" in the online community was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, growing up in the suburbs of Orange County. Adop…
3 years, 11 months ago
Facing the Primal Wound: Coming Out on the Other Side
Episode 1
Bob Guyer was born in 1953 and stayed for four days with his biological mother, and was adopted after a few months in foster care. He learned he was …
3 years, 11 months ago
Reclaiming the Orphan of the Lost Self
Episode 18
Lisa King is a retired disability specialist, artist and mother. She was born in 1957 into a closed adoption system and was adopted six months later.…
4 years ago
Understanding the Mistress's Daughter
Episode 17
A.M. Homes was born in Washington D.C. in 1961 and adopted at birth in a private adoption.She began to explore themes related to adoption in her 1993…
4 years ago
Uncovering Hidden Identity
Episode 16
Lynn Grubb is a closed-era Illinois adoptee and parent by marriage, birth and adoption. She is the editor of "The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Sh…
4 years, 1 month ago
Taking the Stigma out of Adoption
Episode 15
Jeff Forney was born in San Francisco and raised in the East Bay town of Moraga, CA.
A photographer based in Los Angeles, he has been working on a do…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Complexity of Poverty and International Adoption
Episode 14
Lenore Paletta Hiller is an international adoptee born in Southern Italy in the mid-1960's. She lived with her birth mother for the first five months…
4 years, 2 months ago
A Daughter Connects with her Father
Episode 13
After being taken away from her birth parents as a baby by the state, and adopted out of foster care at age 4, singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert (aka bi…
4 years, 2 months ago