Podcast Episodes

Victim, Villain, Valiant Hero: The Drama Triangle and Spiritual Trauma

Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue our conversation about spiritual trauma and adoption. We are using the book Holy Hurt: Understanding Spirit…

11 hours ago

Let's: See What Develops: The Essentials. Continuing the conversation on spiritual trauma

Please join Dani Joy and me as we continue to discuss spiritual trauma and adoption. I am a Late Discovery, Intercountry adopted person. Dani is a mo…

4 days, 7 hours ago

Returning to the Familiar: When we keep going back to things that hurt

Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue to explore spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hillary L McBride Phd as a scaffold for our discuss…

1 week, 5 days ago

What we need from the beginning: Continuing the conversation on spiritual trauma

Please join Dani Joy and I as we discuss the section What we need from the beginning, from the book Holy Hurt by Hilary L McBride, PhD.

Dani is a moth…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Alert: California SB 381. California adopted people need your support

California Alliance For Adoptee Rights and Senator Wahab have a bill being heard in the Health Committee this Tuesday, 23 June 2026. They need you to…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

The Culture we Swim in, Pt 2. Spiritual Trauma is NOT fun!

Please join me and Dani Joy as we continue our conversation about the intersection of spiritual trauma and adoption. We are talking trauma, just nons…

1 month ago

The Culture we swim in: continuing the conversation on spiritual trauma and adoption

Please join me and Dani Joy as we continue to address spiritual trauma from our lived experience as a mother of loss to adoption and as a late discov…

1 month ago

The Adoption Paradox: a Conversation with Author Jean Kelly Widner

Please join me for my conversation with Jean Kelly Widner, a domestically adopted person who is the author of The Adoption Paradox: Putting Adoption …

1 month, 1 week ago

Fundamentally Bad: a Survivor's Universal Experience of Spiritual Trauma

Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue our conversation about spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hilary L McBride PhD as a guide as we e…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

This Feels Familiar: How leaving the system that harmed you can be hard to do. Plus more fun stuff about spiritual trauma!

Please join me and mom Dani Joy as we wrap up chapter 3 in our discussion of spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hilary L McBride PhD as a g…

1 month, 3 weeks ago