In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with an adult adoptee, Rebecca Autumn Sansom, who recently created an adoption documentary called Reckoning with the Primal Wound, a film that juxtaposes her own powerful adoption story with the wisdom of Nancy Verrier, who wrote The Primal Wound, the book that is considered to be the adoptee’s bible.

RESOURCES:

Information about Reckoning with the Primal Wound:

• Website + Tickets: https://reckoningwiththeprimalwound.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reckoningwiththeprimalwound
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reckoning_with_theprimalwound/?hl=en

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

• Nancy Verrier’s book The Primal Wound: http://nancyverrier.com/the-primal-wound/
• Blonde Records: https://blonderecords.com
• Time.com’s article about the adoption industry: https://time.com/6051811/private-adoption-america/
• “Off and Running” documentary by Nicole Opper: https://offandrunningthefilm.com/
• Adoptees On Podcast: https://www.adopteeson.com/
• Adoptees Connect: https://adopteesconnect.com/
• The F-Word Series: https://www.thefwordseries.com/

Other Resources:

• Other Parents Like Me -  https://www.facebook.com/other.parents.like.me
• Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents of Addicted Teens: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/
• Find a Tele-Therapist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/online-counseling

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Music written and performed by Joseph Nakao

Cover art by Joseph Nakao, photo by Beth Syverson

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TIME STAMPS:

1:37 How Rebecca got the idea for the film

4:11 Adoptive parent’s perspectives

7:11 Film screening info for 2/26/22

8:51 How the film triggered Rebecca and others

19:22 Adolescence and identity crises

25:05 Is Rebecca anti-adoption?

26:47 How the birth of Rebecca’s child affected her

29:15 Money in the adoption industry

30:58 Does Rebecca ever feel infantilized as an adult adoptee?

41:15 Advice for dealing with Joey’s adoption pain

45:55 Renting the film its eventual release

47:28 Join the Adoption Army!

49:03 Blonde Records info

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