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Today one of our favourite therapists, Pam Cordano is back! This time we chat with Pam and her two adult daughters, Sarah and Lauren. Pam's daughters tell us all about what it was like for them to grow up with a mother who was adopted. We discuss how Pam chose to parent differently than her adoptive parents, what were some positive and negative things about living with an adoptee in the house, and what their family has done to build healthy relationships with each other, especially in the teen through young adult years.

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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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Nicole Chung shares with us about the complexities of growing up distinctly different from your adoptive family. In her new memoir, All You Can Ever Know, she explores her experience of pregnancy, search, and reunion which happen simultaneously. We discuss grief in adoption as Nicole recounts how she lost her adoptive father just as she was finishing up her final manuscript of All You Can Ever Know.

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Today Janet Nordine, MS, LMFT is back to address grief. This time she is teaching us about experiencing grief as an adult adoptee. Have you lost a loved one recently? Revisiting grief as an adult adoptee is a totally different ballgame. We also discuss what can happen to us if we stuff down our feelings instead of processing them.

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• Janet Nordine, MS, LMFT: www.experiencecourage.com | Twitter | Instagram | Experience Courage on Facebook | Janet on Facebook
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Here's an insider's look at the challenges of adding a step-parent into your life. Many children navigate this in our society, but when you're adopted, this adds an entirely new layer of complexity.

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• Peggy Galdamez: Instagram | Facebook
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Today Janet Nordine, MS, LMFT teaches us all about grief. Perhaps some of the anger you've been experiencing is actually masking some deep grief. We talk about disenfranchised grief and why we think it is a critical topic for adoptees to understand.

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• Janet Nordine, MS, LMFT: www.experiencecourage.com | Twitter | Instagram | Experience Courage on Facebook | Janet on Facebook
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Today we are going to look at a reunion between a mother and daughter, and how their guiding principles have helped build a strong and healthy connection over the past three years.

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• Marni Metzler Hall: Facebook
• To connect with Karen you can send Marni a message on Facebook and she'll connect you via email
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What happens when you are so hopeful about connecting with your first mother but then you discover they're already gone? Today Donna shares her story of searching for her birth family and what happens when she finds out some very sobering details of her birth mother's life.

• Donna: Email adoptee3 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Pam Greenstone, MA, LPC teaches us how to find a therapy group in our area. Pam gives us some ideas for finding out if the group therapist is adoption-competent, what to do if they aren't, and tips for finding a safe group to express your adoptee-related concerns.

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• Pam Greenstone, MA, LPC: www.pgreenstonetherapy.com | email pamgreenstone (at) me (dot) com
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Pam Greenstone, MA, LPC teaches us what group therapy is all about. You won't believe the amazing list of therapeutic factors Pam explains come from healing in community. We also learn about why group therapy can be so beneficial for adoptees specifically.

• Pam Greenstone, MA, LPC: www.pgreenstonetherapy.com | email pamgreenstone (at) me (dot) com
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Today we are exploring another mother and daughter relationship. Hea was adopted from Korea but didn't really start exploring her Korean heritage until her daughter Emma started getting curious. Hea shares about how her relationship with Emma spurred them both to process what being adopted really means.

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