Due to the enduring EMOTIONAL FALLOUT that can be part of adoption, I highly support the GENTLE HEALING experience of SMGI: Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery. For more information on this groundbreaking and highly successful method, go to

Donna is a transracial adoptee, born in the UK and raised there by a white family with lots of fostered children. While she was the only black child, all the children were from different backgrounds and were equally loved. While not emotionally close to her adoptive parents growing up, Donna has always felt their unconditional love. 

Trauma still came her way, and Donna thinks she may have had less trauma if she hadn't kept quiet about traumatic events that happened to her during childhood.

Donna has been slowly peeling the layers to her truth for 50 years. Learning to be a speaker led to her first talk about her adoption, and in 2020 she set up her Searching For Truth Podcast, doing interviews about various topics that touch on her own experiences.

Donna also wrote a short memoir called "Lost and Found," published in the anthology The New Woman by Ritu Sharma in 2021.

Now in Dominica with her husband and Son, Donna has experienced the most extraordinary challenges that she now believes are lined with incredible gifts for her healing and expansion.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealingAdoptee/ 

[Facebook Messenger is her preferred contact method]

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@donnamariejoseph

If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to [email protected], and your story will be considered for the podcast.