Adult Adoptees
How Forgiveness Promotes Healing
Many in the adoption constellation bear pain due to feelings of loss, abandonment and rejection. Forgiveness promotes healing, but how do we forgive? And for some, why? Here we examine the value of forgiveness, discuss the phases of forgiving, and share resources for putting forgiveness into practice.
Read MoreA New Way to Connect: Podcasts by Adoptees for Adoptees (and their loved ones)
These podcasts by adoptees are a great way to easily plug in to the adoptee community, explore common themes, and learn about roads to healing. Clinician Lisa Coppola, LMHC, shares her favorite episodes that could be particularly beneficial for adoptees and their partners, friends and family members.
Read MoreThe GOA’L Model: How to Support Birth Family Search Overseas
As more adoptees pursue birth family search overseas, there’s an increasing need for guidance and support when they reach their destination. GOA’L, a nonprofit that counsels and connects adoptees with their motherland in Korea, shares possible search outcomes, cultural challenges, and reunion scenarios.
Read MoreBack to the Beginning
Unexpectedly, a child’s birth country visit unlocked worries and fears. BPAR clinician Maya Rogers-Bursen explores her childhood nightmares and the assumptions she was too young to articulate when her adoptive family took her and her sister to India.
Read MoreTranslating for Intercountry Adoptees in South Korea — My Summer Journey
As a translator for adoptees returning to Korea to find their birth mothers, BPAR team member Michelle (Seungmi) Lee shares the emotional moments she witnessed, their effect on her own identity, and subsequent thoughts for transracial and intercountry adoptees.
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