Posts Tagged ‘emotions’
National Adoption Awareness Month
Adoption is a lifelong journey and we are on our own individual path. In honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, our founder tells her own post adoption story and encourages other adult adoptees to say: “This is really hard but I want to come through this. I want to make sense of this journey and I want to heal from its impact. I want to live in a better way. I want to move forward.”
Read MoreChandani: Imagining My Birth Mother
If we don’t know much about our birth mothers, sometimes it helps to imagine their stories as we grapple with our own identities. Clinician Maya Rogers-Bursen shares her own adoptee fantasy and explains how it may be comforting to fill the gaps in our own beginnings by making up stories.
Read MoreHow 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.
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