In this powerful episode of The Angie Ambrosetti Show, Angie sits down with Katie King—a wife, mom of three, and adoptee—to share the often-unspoken side of adoption: what it feels like from the inside out. Katie opens up about being adopted as an infant, the impact of early separation from her birth mother, and how the concept of the “primal wound” helped her finally make sense of lifelong feelings of rejection, anxiety, people-pleasing, and addiction.

You’ll hear how her loving adoptive parents walked with her through the tension of being “so different,” how she eventually reconnected with her birth family, and why that reunion—while beautiful—also brought layers of grief, complexity, and perspective. Angie and Katie also talk honestly about the adoption “triangle”: the adoptee, the birth parents, and the adoptive parents, and the deep courage, loss, and love that often sit in each corner.

Whether you’re an adoptive parent, a birth parent, an adoptee yourself, or someone who loves any of the above, this conversation will give you language, compassion, and hope. Katie also shares thoughtful advice for anyone wrestling with whether or not to seek out their biological family, and Angie ties it all back to a core truth from her coaching: the way we relate to ourselves shapes every relationship and circumstance in our lives.

We also mention the book The Primal Wound by Nancy Newton Verrier in this episode, sounds like a must read!