Adoption Wise

Adoption Wise

By Lisa C. Qualls and Melissa CorkumParentingKids & Family
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Adoption Wise episodes

  • #131: [Mentor Moment] How do we handle multiple children with differing levels of openness with birth family?
    Mentor Moments give you a chance to join the conversation as we answer a listener question. These episodes guarantee we're providing the most helpful tools and resources for exactly where you are.
    This week's question is:
    How do we handle multiple children with differing levels of openness with birth family?
    Share your experience and advice in our private Facebook group or ask your own question for a future episode. Click here to join.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.
    To ask a question for a future Mentor Moment, leave a message on our 24-hour listener hotline.
    (208) 741-3880
    Relevant Links
    Five Love Languages
    Blocked Care Workshop
    12 min
  • #131: [Mentor Moment] How do we handle multiple children with differing levels of openness with birth family?








     
    Mentor Moments give you a chance to join the conversation as we answer a listener question. These episodes guarantee we're providing the most helpful tools and resources for exactly where you are.
    This week's question is:
    How do we handle multiple children with differing levels of openness with birth family?
    Share your experience and advice in our private Facebook group or ask your own question for a future episode. Click here to join.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

    To ask a question for a future Mentor Moment, leave a message on our 24-hour listener hotline.
    (208) 741-3880
    Relevant Links
    Five Love Languages
    Blocked Care Workshop
     

    12 min
  • #130: A Birth Mother’s Perspective on Open Adoption and Post-Placement Support with Ashley Mitchell
    For over a decade, Ashley has been one of the most consistent and sought after birth mother voices in the nation.  Well known for her vulnerability and transparency in adoption, her story has touched the hearts of countless members of the adoption community and beyond. She is owner of Big Tough Girl and Founder + Executive Director of Lifetime Healing Foundation which champions increased care, understanding, and resources for birth mothers.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.
    Relevant Links
    Lifetime Healing Foundation
    Connect with Ashley on Instagram
    The Girls Who Went Away* by Ann Fessler
    *This is an affiliate link
    55 min
  • #130: A Birth Mother’s Perspective on Open Adoption and Post-Placement Support with Ashley Mitchell








    For over a decade, Ashley has been one of the most consistent and sought after birth mother voices in the nation.  Well known for her vulnerability and transparency in adoption, her story has touched the hearts of countless members of the adoption community and beyond. She is owner of Big Tough Girl and Founder + Executive Director of Lifetime Healing Foundation which champions increased care, understanding, and resources for birth mothers.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

    Relevant Links
    Lifetime Healing Foundation
    Connect with Ashley on Instagram
    The Girls Who Went Away* by Ann Fessler
    *This is an affiliate link

    55 min
  • #129: An Adoptee’s Remarkable Search with Ed Di Gangi
    Ed Di Gangi was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 67, a visit to a cemetery where members of his adoptive mother's family were buried and a story by Daniel Mendelsohn stirred his interest.
    ​
    Over the past three years, through extensive archival research and DNA testing, Ed has peeled back the layers of his once unknown family. It turned out his birth mother was not who he thought she was at all.
    ​
    You don't want to miss this remarkable story.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.
    Relevant Links
    Ed's Website
    The Gift Best Given: A Memoir* by Ed Di Gangi
    Connect with Ed on Instagram
    Watch Ed's Birth Mom Ice Skate
    The Lost* by Daniel Mendelsohn
    *This is an affiliate link
    44 min
  • #129: An Adoptee’s Remarkable Search with Ed Di Gangi








    Ed Di Gangi was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 67, a visit to a cemetery where members of his adoptive mother's family were buried and a story by Daniel Mendelsohn stirred his interest.
    ​
    Over the past three years, through extensive archival research and DNA testing, Ed has peeled back the layers of his once unknown family. It turned out his birth mother was not who he thought she was at all.
    ​
    You don't want to miss this remarkable story.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

    Relevant Links
    Ed's Website
    The Gift Best Given: A Memoir* by Ed Di Gangi
    Connect with Ed on Instagram
    Watch Ed's Birth Mom Ice Skate
    The Lost* by Daniel Mendelsohn
    *This is an affiliate link

    44 min
  • #128: [Mentor Moment] How do we help extended family have respect and compassion for our foster child’s birth family?
    Mentor Moments give you a chance to join the conversation as we answer a listener question. These episodes guarantee we're providing the most helpful tools and resources for exactly where you are.
    This week's question is:
    How do we help extended family have respect and compassion for our foster child's birth family?
    Share your experience and advice in our private Facebook group or ask your own question for a future episode. Click here to join.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.
    To ask a question for a future Mentor Moment, leave a message on our 24-hour listener hotline.
    (208) 741-3880
    Relevant Link
    Register for the Insight Conference
    16 min
  • #128: [Mentor Moment] How do we help extended family have respect and compassion for our foster child’s birth family?








     
    Mentor Moments give you a chance to join the conversation as we answer a listener question. These episodes guarantee we're providing the most helpful tools and resources for exactly where you are.
    This week's question is:
    How do we help extended family have respect and compassion for our foster child's birth family?
    Share your experience and advice in our private Facebook group or ask your own question for a future episode. Click here to join.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

    To ask a question for a future Mentor Moment, leave a message on our 24-hour listener hotline.
    (208) 741-3880
    Relevant Link
    Register for the Insight Conference
     

    16 min
  • #127: Processing Trauma through EMDR with Laura Taylor
    If you're heard the acronym EMDR and wondered what it's all about, you're going to love this episode. Lisa interviewed Laura Taylor who is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist. We talk about what EMDR is, how it works, and who it can help. Laura finds EMDR therapy to be very helpful for clients with attachment wounds as well as many other types of traumatic issues and distressing life experiences.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.
    Relevant Links
    The Body Keeps the Score* by Bessel van der Kolk
    EMDRIA website (top right has a tab Find An EMDR Therapist)
    Past episodes on Equine Therapy
    Past episodes featuring bodywork therapies
    *This is an affiliate link
    51 min
  • #127: Processing Trauma through EMDR with Laura Taylor








    If you're heard the acronym EMDR and wondered what it's all about, you're going to love this episode. Lisa interviewed Laura Taylor who is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist. We talk about what EMDR is, how it works, and who it can help. Laura finds EMDR therapy to be very helpful for clients with attachment wounds as well as many other types of traumatic issues and distressing life experiences.
    Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

    Relevant Links
    The Body Keeps the Score* by Bessel van der Kolk
    EMDRIA website (top right has a tab Find An EMDR Therapist)
    Past episodes on Equine Therapy
    Past episodes featuring bodywork therapies
    *This is an affiliate link

    51 min

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