The Adoption Files

Please join Dani Joy and me as we continue our conversation on spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt: understandin spiritual trauma and the process of healing by Hillary McBride, PhD

Dani can be found at https://medium.com/@danijoy

Holy Hurt: https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/

https://scienceinsights.org/what-is-ecological-systems-theory-and-why-it-matters/

https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health

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Please join me as Dani and I talk about the journey so far, in our conversation about spiritual trauma and how we got here.

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Please join Dani and I as we continue our conversation using the book Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing by Hillary L McBride as a guide to exploring how spiritual trauma and adoption intersect in our lives as a mother of loss and as an adopted person.

Dani can be found at: https://medium.com/@danijoy

https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/

https://mhanational.org/resources/co-dependency/

https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health

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Please join me for a conversation with Toronto Canada stepparent adopted person Craig Wallace.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/search-adoption-records

People who are adopted, even by stepparents, are legally barred from accessing a certified copy of their original birth certificate. Some places allow an adopted person to access a noncertified copy at a specified age.

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Please join me and Dani Joy as we explore the next two Cs of spiritual trauma: Consequences and Compliance. We continue to explore how spiritual trauma plays out in our lives as a mother of loss to adoption and as an adopted person. We are reading the book Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing by Hillary L McBride, PhD

https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/

https://medium.com/@danijoy

https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health

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The host is not a therapist, a lawyer or an adoption professional

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Please join me as I talk with New York adoptee, Elizabeth Barbour

Elizabeth Barbour (she/her) is an adoptee and adoptive mom with 27 years of reunion experience. In 1999, she found her birthmom, birthdad and eleven (!) brothers and sisters. An adoption reunion coach, speaker and author of two books, she’s currently writing her third about building healthy relationships in adoption reunions. Elizabeth helps people find grace and grounding amidst the grief and complexity of the reunion process through self-care, storytelling, and ritual. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina and you can learn more about her at www.elizabethbarbour.com

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Elizabeth Barbour, M.Ed.

Intuitive Life & Business Coach, Healer, Author & Speaker

Asheville, NC

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Check out my award-winning new book Sacred Celebrations: Designing Rituals to Navigate Life’s Milestone Transitions

Mentioned in the episode:

https://www.wearekaan.org/

https://concernedunitedbirthparents.org/

https://savingoursistersadoption.org/

https://thefamilypreservationproject.com/

https://www.alsoknownas.org/

https://adoptionmosaic.com/

https://naapunited.org/

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The host is not a therapist, a lawyer, or an adoption professional

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https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health

Please join me for part 2 of my conversation with Ohio adoptee and author Paige L Adams Strickland

Paige can be found places online, including:

@paigestricklanddom

https://paigestrickland.substack.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7263308.Paige_L_Adams_Strickland

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-talk-about-the-different-types-of-adoption/id1598023322?i=1000585139950

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-paige-l-adams-strickland/id1598023322?i=1000543557873

Mentioned in this series:

https://adopteerightslaw.com/truth/

https://bastards.org/

Adoptee Rights Coalition can be found on facebook

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The host is not a therapist, a lawyer or an adoption professional

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Please join me as I talk with Paige L Adams Strickland, Ohio adoptee and author

Paige has been a guest on the podcast in the past. This two episode talks a bit more about just what is included when an Ohio adopted person requests their adoption file.

Paige can be found at numerous places online, including:

@paigestricklanddom

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134608472-akin-to-the-truth

https://medium.com/@paigeas

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-paige-l-adams-strickland/id1598023322?i=1000543557873

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-talk-about-the-different-types-of-adoption/id1598023322?i=1000585139950

https://paigestrickland.substack.com/

The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions.

The host is not a therapist, a lawyer or an adoption professional

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Please join me as I continue my conversation with mother of loss to adoption Cindy Shultz. We talk about how the loss of a child can lead to substance use, and how the love of a child can lead to sobriety.

Cindy Shultz is a mother of church-coerced child loss who transforms lived experience into advocacy. Raised in the shadow of poverty and stigma, Cindy was a mother in crisis when Catholic Charities pressured her into relinquishing her son in a process she felt powerless to stop. This experience of unnecessary child loss is the foundation of her mission to support the systematically oppressed.

As the founder of Cindy's Family Preservation Alliance and a volunteer for Saving Our Sisters, she provides pregnant women the education and resource navigation she was once denied. Professionally, Cindy serves as a Wellness and Services coordinator at two local shelters, providing holistic case management for unhoused women. She is a certified Holistic Life Coach, Recovery Coach and Laughter Yoga Leader creating healing centered environments that honor the intersections of trauma, substance use, and family separation. Her work is a living testament that healing is possible and that family preservation is a fundamental human right that must be protected. If you are interested in Coaching or the healing power of Laughter Yoga, join her free Skool community Love Our Laughter.

https://www.facebook.com/familypreservationalliance/

https://www.skool.com/love-our-laughter-wellness-5520/about

https://savingoursistersadoption.org/

Mentioned in the episode

https://www.aa.org/

https://sherecovers.org/

https://recoverydharma.org/

https://celiacenter.org/

https://mentalhealthhotline.org/

The opinions of the host and the guest are just that, our opinions.

The host is not a lawyer, a therapist or an adoption professional

Thank you for listening!