Navigating No Contact: Adoptees' Journeys to Healing

Episode Summary:

Should you cut off your adoptive parents? Should you “go no contact” with your adoptive parents? “Oh hell no. Not this time. I’m done.” That’s what we felt before cutting off contact with your adoptive parents. Sometimes, the healthiest thing we can do is to go no contact with our adoptive parents. Escaping abuse. Escaping racism. Escaping pain. In this episode we share what made us go no contact, discuss what it’s like, and share our personal advice to adoptees considering going no contact. 

In this episode, we cover:

(00:34) What is “going no contact”

(01:27) Dr. Noelle’s no contact story

(07:45) The first time I heard the N-word

(08:23) Lia’s no contact story 

(14:45) The “I’m DONE” moment

(17:27) Cost of going no contact

(20:55) The huge disconnect

(23:57) What does it take to go no contact? 

(25:58) Going no contact WHILE raising kids OR Greatest fear OR What to do if your children talk to you about your mistakes 

(34:01) On the fence about going no contact? OR Should you go no contact?

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Editing by Samuel Oyedele (Editor)

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