Adoption
Adoptees in 3: Connecting Mind, Heart and Action – Episode 1: Sara Easterly
In Episode 1 of the Adoptees in 3: Connecting Mind, Heart, and Action interview series, guest Sara Easterly, an adoptee, writer, author, and the founder of an online storytelling community talks about her adoptee journey with adoptee host Lisa “LC” Coppola, LMHC, a trauma-informed therapist at BPAR.
Read MoreAdoption Trauma – Part 1: What is Adoption Trauma?
Few of us stop to consider the earliest experiences that predate the adoption process and how the body and mind might record them as trauma. This is the first of a series of BPAR blogs incorporating adoptee voices and research that will address these issues and the challenges they may cause.
Read MoreSharing Our Voices — Watch Nine Adoptee Speakers from BPAR’s 2023 Voices Unheard Series
“The Voices Unheard event offered me more insight into my daughter’s challenges and struggles as an adoptee than anything else in my past quests for knowledge.” Watch this video of BPAR’s 2023 Voices Unheard: Real Adoptee Stories creative forum to learn more about adoptee experiences.
Read MoreDance / Movement Therapy and Adoption-Competent Therapy
Traumatic experiences leave a profound impact on our physical bodies. Sometimes those implicit memories or deeply buried traumas are inaccessible to verbal processing, and only accessed through body-focused and somatic-focused work. Here’s how Dance/Movement Therapy and Adoption-Competent Therapy intersect very effectively.
Read MoreHow Do You Know if Someone Is Trustworthy?
Trust is hard for people with early childhood trauma and attachment disruptions. As adults who get to choose who we let into our lives, it can still be confusing for us to know who is worth investing our trust in. Here are some general ways to discern if someone is higher up on the trustworthy scale.
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