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How can you cope when your reunion fails? Pam Cordano, MFT returns to the Healing Series to help us acknowledge the pain of reunion failure. She gives us some helpful tools to survive secondary rejection, being ghosted, or even when you're the one to pull the plug after a lukewarm reception.

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Today my dear friend Reshma McClintock, creator of Dear Adoption, and Producer, Co-Director, and Subject of the documentary, Calcutta is My Mother is here to celebrate 100 episodes with us! I asked Reshma to be the guest for my 100th episode because she is passionate about the same thing as I am, adoptee voices. Reshma shares what shifted her view of adoption, what it's like for her to talk about India and adoption with her daughter, and the paradox of navigating cultural appropriation for a transracially adopted person.

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What happens when your reunion fails? Pam Cordano, MFT returns to the Healing Series to help us focus in on ways we can find our identity without a connection to our biological family.

This is part one of a two-part When Reunion Fails, part two will air on March 1, so make sure you're subscribed!

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• Pamela Cordano, MFT: www.pamelacordanomft.com | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Email pcordano(at)comcast(dot)net for info on the Adoptee Healing Retreat or the Pilgrimage for Women
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Karen Pickell, author of An Adoptee Lexicon, shares candidly about how growing up she felt intensely different than her adoptive family. We talk about how challenging it is to know who you are when you don't know where you came from. Karen also tells us the realities of what adoption reunion really looks like for her and what role nature vs nurture plays in her life.

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• Haley speaking in Washington, DC: April 2019 americanadoptioncongress.org
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We are wrapping up the Adoptees On addiction series with Sara-Jayne King, author of Killing Karoline. SJ shares her story, including some vulnerable moments discussing secondary rejection, all the different ways addiction showed up in her life, and incredibly, SJ stuns me with a story I absolutely was not expecting.

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Today we continue on in the Adoptees On Addiction series. I'm excited to introduce you to Becca who was adopted in-family, and if you're an avid listener, you're going to recognize some of the sisters we chat about in Becca's story! Becca struggled with some early losses and shares about her troubled actions while in active addiction to meth. Listen to hear how her family, including her biological mother, walked alongside her to a place of recovery.

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Today we're continuing on in the Adoptees On Addiction series and in this episode, I get to introduce you to my Adoptees Connect co-leader Sean. Sean shares his story of alcohol addiction, the moment of clarity that helped him realize he had a problem and somehow it includes Justin Bieber, so wait for that! Sean and I also discuss the lessons he continues to learn about the impact of adoption on his life.

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Lesli A. Johnson, MFT talks with us about what “coming out of the fog” means. We cover how adoptees, first parents, and adoptive parents can all experience this. Lesli and I also discuss how to move through this process, which can be incredibly challenging.

What do you do when you get triggered? Pamela Cordano, MFT gives us a few simple, yet powerful tools to stock in our triggered triage kit. This is a must-listen for anyone who has experienced the intensity of a triggering moment and felt helpless and stuck in overwhelm.