Found with Trish and Sherri

Anna’s birth mother traveled to another state while seven months pregnant to place her baby for adoption.

Anna’s adoption story is about much more than placement. It’s about two mothers, biological siblings, grief, uncertainty, relinquishment—and an adult adoptee looking back at the decisions that shaped her life before she could have a voice in them.

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In this personal episode, Trish shares what it means to experience adoption from two very different sides — first as an adoptee and later as an adoptive mom.Growing up, Trish knew she had been adopted and was told her birth mother was “just a teenager.” But decades later, curiosity led her to search for the woman who gave her life. Finding her birth mother brought answers, surprises, and a new understanding of her own story — but it also revealed just how complicated reunion and biological family relationships can be.Trish opens up about navigating the unexpected rules and emotions of reunion, discovering the sometimes-divisive world of online adoption communities, and how becoming an adoptive mother changed the way she viewed her own adoption.Her journey offers a unique perspective on identity, belonging, motherhood, and the complicated question of what it really means to find home.Everybody has a story. This is Trish’s.Would you like to share your own adoption, DNA discovery, or family reunion story with us? Is there a topic you’d like to hear discussed in a future episode?📧 Email us at [email protected] with Trish & Sherri Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • Identity#FoundWithTrishAndSherri #FullCircle #AdoptionJourney #AdopteeStories #AdoptiveMom #DNAReunion #FindingHome

In this heartfelt episode, Sherri shares her incredible journey from growing up in small-town Palatka, Florida, to uncovering her biological roots decades later. Born in 1969 and adopted as an infant, Sherri reflects on her early years, her deep friendship with Trish, and the unique experience of growing up in a community where many children were adopted.She opens up about discovering her biological mother and father in her forties, learning she was the oldest of ten siblings, and the emotional process of establishing and maintaining those new relationships. From adoption to reconnection, Sherri’s story is one of courage, curiosity, and the power of lifelong friendship.Would you like to share your own DNA reunion story with us? Is there a topic would you like to hear discussed in future episodes?📧Email us at [email protected]#FoundPodcast #DNAReunion #AdoptionJourney #AdopteeVoices #FamilySearch #FoundWithTrishAndSherri #AdoptionStories #ReunionThroughDNA #AdopteeExperience

When Christine and her husband Andrew became foster carers in 2019, they expected fostering to become Christine’s new job. Their very first placement was a four-year-old a child who had experienced extreme neglect, trauma, and two previous placement breakdowns.

They initially agreed to care for him for only six months. Instead, he changed their lives.

Christine shares how learning to recognize the unmet needs underneath trauma-related behavior transformed the way she and Andrew parented their son—and how six months of fostering became a four-and-a-half-year fight to keep him.

In February 2024, he officially became their son through adoption.

This is Christine’s story of foster care, trauma-informed parenting, perseverance, adoption, and becoming a family.

Found with Trish & Sherri — Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • Identity

Everybody has a story.

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Welcome to Found with Trish & Sherri, where we believe everybody has a story.

We’re Trish and Sherri—childhood friends, adoptees, authors, and podcast co-hosts. Our own searches for biological family changed our lives and eventually led us here: creating a space for honest conversations about the stories that shape who we are.

On Found, we talk with adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, NPEs, people navigating DNA discoveries and family reunions, and others whose lives have taken unexpected turns. We talk about identity, belonging, searching, finding, relationships, boundaries, loss, connection, and everything in between.

Some stories have happy endings. Some are complicated. Some are still being written.

And while adoption and DNA are a big part of where Found began, our message is bigger than that:

Everybody has a story. We want to hear yours.

Start here, get to know us, and then join us for the stories that follow.

Found with Trish & Sherri
Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • Identity