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Pam Cordano, MFT is here to share some insights from her brand new book, 10 Foundations For a Meaningful Life (No Matter What's Happened). Pam reveals some personal stories to teach us about how to find and understand our true worth.

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We'll be back with a new show March 13, 2020!

Marta Isabella Sierra Drachenberg, LMHC is back on the Healing Series sharing more intimate moments from her reunion with her family in Colombia. She teaches us about how Internal Family Systems saved her relationship with her mother. You don't want to miss this very personal episode with some brilliant insights from Marta.

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• Marta Isabella Sierra Drachenberg, LMHC: marta.drachenberg [at] gmail [dot] com | martadrachenberglmhc.com
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Marta Isabella Sierra Drachenberg, LMHC is back on the Healing Series! Marta recently returned from a year-long trip to Columbia, her country of origin. She shares some intimate moments of what cross-cultural reunion/reunification looks like and she teaches us about some common barriers in reunion we need to be on alert for.

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• Marta Isabella Sierra Drachenberg, LMHC: marta.drachenberg [at] gmail [dot] com | martadrachenberglmhc.com
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Jenny Heijun Wills is our guest today, the author of the memoir Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. We talk about adoption in literature, why it's so important to elevate the adoptee voice and Jenny explains what does it really mean when someone asks us "what do your adoptive parents think about all this".

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• Jenny Heijun Wills: Twitter | Instagram | www.jennyheijunwills.com
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Melanie Chung-Sherman, LCSW-S is back with us on the Healing Series sharing her wisdom. Melanie and Haley continue the conversation about safety in advocacy and activism, holding boundaries, and the cost of our emotional labour.

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• Melanie Chung-Sherman, LCSW-S: Facebook | mcscounsel.com
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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I can't wait to share my discussion with Melanie Chung-Sherman, LCSW-S with you. Melanie teaches us about responding to microaggressions while keeping ourselves safe. This is critical listening, especially for anyone working in adoptee advocacy.

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Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, author of the stunning graphic memoir called Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption is our guest. She shares some of her story with us and then we dive into a conversation about racism, coming out of the adoption fog, what activism means to Lisa, and how she found her voice.

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• Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom: Instagram | woolrim.wordpress.com | www.patreon.com/woolrim
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Cathy Caputo is our first guest of the new year and she has quite a surprising story, so I'm not going to spoil anything here. We talk about closed adoption, grief and loss, and what it's for meant for Cathy to start an in-person adoptee community.

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• Cathy Caputo: Instagram | Facebook
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Today the creator of Not Your Orphan is sharing their story with us, Blake Gibbins is here! Blake and I talk about what happened three years ago to kick him out of the fog, we discuss grief and some losses Blake experienced earlier this year, and we move into a discussion about activism, cognitive dissonance and what it means to be queer and an adoptee.

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• Blake Gibbbins: Not Your Orphan on YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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