Today's guest is Amy Wilkerson, LCSW, a transracial, international adoptee who as an advocate for the adoptee community, as well as running her clinical practice Copihue Counseling.

This episode is Part 1 of 3, where we will talk about the misunderstandings in the adoption narrative, and the lacking adoptee voice from that narrative. Next week will be Part 2, and we'll talk about how we should be approaching adopting, and best practices for anyone anywhere on the adoption journey.

Part 3 of the series will be a Q&A episode where you can submit any questions you have for Amy! DM us your questions, or use this super cool link to send us a voice memo with your question we can play: https://anchor.fm/flourishingincolor/message

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Today's poem is Polaroid Past by Allie Moreno

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