Conversations About Adoption

I spoke with Isabel a transracial adoptee who has been in reunion with her mother since she was 17. She is an example of another adoptee who acted out due to trauma, and was sent away. She talks about reunion, her siblings, her adoptive family, and how being racially ambiguous while growing up with a lack of genetic mirroring has affected her sense of identity. Hope you give it a listen!

You can find Isabel on TikTok and Instagram I hope you give her a follow!

And again the email address if you are interested in being on the podcast is [email protected]

Don't forget I have stickers available! 

In this conversation I am talking to Chelle, and our conversation hits many different points. She told me how her open started out as open, but her adopters closed it within the first few months of her life, how she was thrust into reunion when she was a teen because of issues at home, and eventually became a pert of the trouble teen industry when her adoptive parents decided they couldn't deal anymore, and she was sent to an all girls center for troubled teens. They were dehumanized, isolated even from each other, and made to work. We also talk about how she asked her birth dad to re-adopt her! 

And she told me how she is involved in the online adoption community today. 

You can find her on Instagram at @myalteredadoption

And she is a moderator for the Facebook group Adopted Chameleons

If you are an adoptee or first parent who hasn't had the opportunity to share your story on a podcast and would like to, email me at [email protected]

This is a conversation I had with Suzanna, she tells me about her adoption, and the subsequent court battle that happened when her first mom tried to regain custody of her after her revocation period. We also discuss her search and reunion. We have something in common in that we are both Pennsylvania adoptees, and had to go through the same court system to access information about our families. We talk a lot about the awkwardness of reunion and the things we would've done differently knowing what we know now. 

If you are a first parent or adoptee who has not yet shared your story on a podcast and would like to, send me an email at [email protected]

I have stickers available too!

** TRIGGER WARNING** Vin talks briefly about sexual assault in this episode.

This is a conversation with my very good friend Vin who is an international transracial adoptee who was born in India and raised on Australia.

If you are an adoptee or parent who lost your child to adoption and are interested in being on the podcast please email me at [email protected] 

I am doing a little fundraising by selling 2"x2" stickers, if you are interested you can email at the about address as well. 

Sarah is a baby scoop era adoptee who recently started making tiktoks about her experiences as an adoptee. In this episode she discussed how she felt finding out the only knowledge she had about her first parents was incorrect, including her nationality. Her username on Tiktok is @higher7771 please give her a follow.

If you are an adoptee or parent who lost a child to adoption and would like to be on the podcast, please email me at [email protected]

I also have stickers available! Email me to get some!

In this special series for National Adoption/Adoptee Awareness month (November) I asked adoptees to call in and leave a message answering the question, 

"What is the best advice you could give to an adoptee just learning about the primal wound, and just venturing out of the fog?"

I obviously didn't do a good job with this... I need to start preparing before November.. also I was in school which made it difficult.

I want to thank the people who called in to answer this question! 

If you are an adoptee or parent who lost a child to adoption and would like to be on the podcast, please email me at [email protected]

I also have stickers available! Email me to get some!

In this conversation I talk with the film maker of "Reckoning with the Primal Wound" Rebecca Autumn Samson!

Join us on the Struggle-bus and check out our conversation! 

She is a reunited adoptee who was inspired to make a film about her story incorporating the book called "The Primal Wound" by Nancy Verrier. 

This book has helped many adoptees recognize how adoption has affected them, however it should be noted that  Nancy is an adoptive mother and this book is written from that perspective. 

Her film will be officially available to rent through Vimeo on October 15th, 2022!

Links:

Tiktok @RWtheprimalwound

Website: https://reckoningwiththeprimalwound.com/

Vimeo channel: Blonde Records

Twitter: @rwtpw_film

 Facebook page

And I have a new website up! I still need to build it up, I am working on ideas for what I want to put on it. 

www.conversationsaboutadoption.com

If you are an adoptee or parent who lost a child to adoption and would like to be on the podcast, please email me at [email protected]

I also have stickers available! Email me to get some!

Thanks for joining us today! 

In this episode I talk with Marc who is an adoptee with quite a few labels. 

He is an international adoptee being born in Colombia. He is a transracial adoptee as his adopters (as he calls them) are mid-western white Americans. And Marc is also transgender. 

I came across Marc on Tiktok not long after he joined it, and began making videos about adoption. I am a fan of his content, as it is typically very artistic with a little humor and snarkiness. 

You can find his Instagram here. 

If you are an adoptee or parent who lost a child to adoption and would like to be on the podcast, please email me at [email protected]

I also have stickers available! Email me to get some!

This is a special bonus episode where I have a quick chat with Paul Brian Tovey who is a UK adoptee and artist. He is active on some social media and has been working on collecting data about adoption via a survey project. 

Please be sure to participate in his adoptee survey!

He has a blog on Medium. 

You also can find him on Facebook and Twitter.

If you are an adoptee or parent who lost a child to adoption and would like to be on the podcast, please email me at [email protected]

I also have stickers available! Email me to get some!

In this episode originally posted on YouTube on October 7, 2020, Carrie tells us her story of how she lost her child to adoption. It is another story of a woman in a vulnerable situation being coerced into relinquishing her child. 

If you are an adoptee or parent who lost a child to adoption and would like to be on the podcast, please email me at [email protected]

I also have stickers available! Email me to get some!