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Dr. Julie Lopez, PhD, LICSW teaches us about Brainspotting. I know, it sounds a little bit woo woo…how on earth is our eye position related to our emotional and psychological brain mapping? Listen and you'll know what to expect when you try out this powerful trauma-sensitive approach.

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• Dr. Julie Lopez: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | www.vivapartnership.com | resilientbrainproject.com
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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Today we are going to get to know Carrie Anspach, as she shares with us about her experience of early motherhood. We talk about her pregnancy and birth experience, how she experienced a relationship with her daughter before she even arrived, and how becoming a mother dramatically changed her understanding of being an adopted person in this world.

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• The Pain of Infertility and Why I Won't Adopt by JS Lee and Keurium by JS Lee
• Andrea Joyce Heimer artist
• Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person by M.C. Richards
• Parenting As Adoptees by Adam Chau and Kevin Ost-Vollmers

• Carrie Anspach: Facebook | dirtygirlpottery.wordpress.com
• Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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How often have we joked about how expensive therapy is? What do we do when we're overwhelmed, feeling lost and have limited resources? Today Dr. Julie Lopez, PhD, LICSW tells us about her new initiative, The Resilient Brain Project. Where else can you find a comprehensive library of free apps, videos, playlists, research, and more that have been vetted by expert adoption-competent mental health providers? Listen in as Dr. Julie gives us an overview of what you can find for free over at The Resilient Brain Project.

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• Dr. Julie Lopez: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | www.vivapartnership.com | resilientbrainproject.com
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Alice shares her experiences of secrets in an in-family adoption and also how her recent reunion with her biological father alerted her to some of the damaging ways her adoptive mother behaved. Alice and I talk about signs of narcissism and she walks us through some real-life examples of how this behaviour showed up in her life, and what she's done to walk away from the toxicity.

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• Alice: Send a note to the Adoptees On page and I will forward it on
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Adoptees often struggle in intimate-partner relationships because we had our trust broken at a very early age. In this episode of the healing series, Marta Drachenberg, LMHC, and Haley discuss some personal examples of relationship issues that seem to keep repeating themselves. Marta teaches us what to look out for, how attachment styles affect our relationships, and how some disagreements with our partners can actually be caused by adoption-issues in disguise.

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• Marta Drachenberg, LMHC: marta.drachenberg [at] gmail [dot] com | http://martadrachenberglmhc.com/
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Today we talk about what happens when two adopted people get married to each other. Stephani is candid with us about some of what triggers her and her husband, and how that can escalate quickly. She also shares about how being in Internal Family Systems therapy together has been a game-changer for their relationship.

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Marta Drachenberg, LMHC, teaches us about the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, something she feels is particularly effective for adoptees. Marta explains that our best advocate and healer is found within ourselves! IFS helps us to discover the 8 Cs that come with self-leadership: calm, creativity, compassion, curiosity, courage, clarity, connectedness, and confidence. If traditional talk therapy has not been working for you, Internal Family Systems may be a good fit.

• Marta Drachenberg: marta.drachenberg [at] gmail [dot] com | http://martadrachenberglmhc.com/
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It's an honour to bring you this mother/daughter duo, Fleurette and Amy, for an in-depth view of a long-term reunion. We talk about the unusual circumstances surrounding Amy's adoption, the disappointment they both felt after their first official in-person meeting, how bringing grandkids into the equation shifted their relationship, and how many years it took them before they felt their reunion relationship was "normal". Spoiler alert - it was a loooong time.

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• Amy Crossland: Instagram | Facebook | amynicrn [at] gmail [dot] com
• Fleurette Gallais: Facebook | ffg.gallais [at] gmail [dot] com
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Rebekah Henson and Mary Anna King give us an insider's view of their reunion as two of seven siblings separated by adoption. Expect lots of laughter as we get invited into some inside jokes, and they share practical examples of how they maintain their relationships with each other even while living in seven different states across the country.

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• Rebekah Henson: Twitter | Instagram | Medium
• Mary Anna King: Twitter | maryannaking.com
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