Join me in this powerful episode as I delve into the often-

This episode reflects the topic of my latest blog. With a lack of support for birth mothers, and at a critical time in her life when stress is at a high point, what kinds of chemicals are making their way through her body and into the bloodstream that she shares with the fetus? How does this affect the child? I talk about this on a scientific level, so that you can make your own inferences about your own life and experiences.

Let’s talk about the raw emotions, challenges, and the lack

I want to discuss the societal stigma and isolation that often

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Katie was adopted by extended family, but it was kept a secret until life in a small town caught up with them, and when the secret was out, it was dropped in her lap.

Katie is a project manager by day and an author by night. That is, when she’s also not being a full-time mom and wife. She considers herself lucky to have so many people in her life that care about her, both adoptive and biological. She channels themes of abandonment and found family into her writing as a tool for self-healing, and is an advocate for mental health as a survivor of it herself.

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When birthmother Barbara found herself pregnant, she gave her daughter Vicky up for adoption and tried to forget it ever happened.

Despite having loving adoptive parents, Vicky struggled to bury the shame and rejection she felt as an adoptee; she was not good enough for her first mother’s love.

Thirty years later, Barbara found Vicky and their reunion experience began. Through this difficult journey, they found healing in growing

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Jacky Harner is a transnational, transgender adoptee. He was adopted from Chisinau, Moldova at 2 years of age to USA. He enjoys ice hockey and skateboarding as hobbies and loves drawing and music as well. Thank you, Jacky, for sharing your life with us at Mind Your Own Karma!

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Meet Jacquelin Taybron, who is an adoptee 30 years post reunion with her biological mother and her siblings. She was born in Landstuhl, Germany, and her adoptive family was handpicked within the military community by her birth mom. At 15 months old, her adoption was finalized, and the very next day she relocated to the States with her adoptive family.

Follow along with all the twists and turns of this episode as Jacquelin's story interweaves with practical information that most may not know about: wartime and/or military placements of children with other families, and the complications that arise from a lack of help with necessary paperwork for US citizenship.

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Elizabeth was born in the ‘60s in Washington, DC and relinquished to social services immediately thereafter. Her first family was Japanese, and she stayed with them as a foster baby for three and a half months. Her adopted family welcomed her, along with their adopted son, into the family.

The few details told to her parents and then to Elizabeth were that her mother was Greek, and so was her father, who was a chauffeur to the Greek Ambassador. Her father was older, and her mother in her 20s at the time of her birth.

All her life, Elizabeth felt the Greek connection and the desire to find her birth family. Her mother was the central focus. In 2017, she enrolled in two DNA websites, and for a year, all her connections were distant cousins with predominantly foreign names, until she connected with a close relative, possibly a first cousin or nephew. He was, in fact, her nephew who had

This was her awakening as the complicated tale of her trans-continental birth family unfolded. Siblings have been reunited, and the story is one of survival for all of them.

Elizabeth shares her story as she sorts out her dual identity and her quest to cope with who she was born as & who she is becoming.

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Michele Sickler was born and relinquished on Staten Island, NY in 1962.  She was placed with her adoptive family at 3 weeks of age after being in foster care.  She grew up in Queens, NY. Michele found her natural family almost 13 years ago, when she was 48.  At that time, she found out her mother was African American, which wasn't disclosed in her adoption papers.  She describes her reunion as difficult, as many adoptees do. Her natural mother died in 2015. She has been married for almost 40 years and has 4 adult children and 1 granddaughter. Thank you, Michelle, for joining us on Mind Your Own Karma!

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Jack Rocco, M.D. has more than 30 years as a practicing

Recycled, his first book, chronicles the behind-the-scenes, reluctant, and subconscious journey exploring the impact of being relinquished and adopted during the baby-scoop era of the mid-sixties. As he eventually finds his birth families, he also finds himself. He maintains homes outside of Charlotte, North Carolina and Hartford, Connecticut.

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It was in the '90s when Carlos Munez was brought to the UK at 8 months old. As a transracial adoptee, he's experienced a loving home and a happy childhood, despite some big identity challenges. His relationship with adoption has been one of acceptance and growth from a child to adulthood.

He's on a journey now to share his own story about being proud of who you are and making the best out of what life has dealt you. He hopes you will take something from his story, even if it's only a small part, and follow his latest project.

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About Gigi:

Born in 1969. Left in the hospital at birth. The name they gave her, Ann Malone. Three days later, she was added to the foster care system, and at age 7 she found out she was adopted.

Now feeling like a square peg in a round hole, she tried to put her adoption in the back of her mind and move on. At age 19, she lost her adoptive mother, but made an unwelcome connection with her birth mother. But once again, she was rejected for a second time, and a few years later, rejected again for a third time.

Dealing with rejection played a large part in attracting unhealthy relationships and not understanding her own self-awareness. When GiGi was in the hospital surviving leukemia and a bone marrow transplant, discovering the importance of Breath-work and Meditation totally shifted her life! And she is learning to love herself even after years of feeling “unworthy and unwanted.”

Now she uses her platform to inspire and motivate people so that we will all be reminded that having a positive attitude can raise our

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