Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive

Do you put other people's needs ahead of your own?Are you sick of doing that? People pleasing is so common amongst us. So how do we stop it? Listen in as I dive into this topic.

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Seeing that you're whole is one thing. Feeling whole is another. How does that change happen? Listen in as I dive deep into healing. I hope you love that feeling.

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Do you want to feel whole? Maybe healing isn’t about becoming whole. Maybe it’s about seeing our wholeness is hidden by trauma. Listen in as I dive deep into how we feel whole.

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Looking for change? Listen in as I dive into what empowers us adoptees to change drawing from two fantastic guests on the Thriving Adoptees podcast Emma Stevens/Linda Pevac and Pamela Karanova

Listen to their podcasts here

Pamela https://pod.fo/e/1e3ef3

Emma/Linda 1st interview Freedom  https://pod.fo/e/1f0bc4

Emma/Linda 2nd interview Becoming Our Own Guru https://pod.fo/e/1e3eeb

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How do we bounce back? Listen in as birth mother and foster care alumnus Cynthia shares her insights on resilience and healing from the profound challenges she's faced. There's oodles (that's lots) of empowering wisdom on finding your own resilience and healing. Listen in for your own insights on progressing along life's learning curve.

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How do we heal? The million dollar (pound or euro) question. Focusing on healing rather than trauma is a great start. Understanding what healing helps us to. Then we can get into the how to's and actions. I'd love your thoughts on this so email me at [email protected]

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Are you out of the fog and suffering from the pain that's been suppressed for so long? So how do you heal? We all have to find our personal pathway out of pain. Listen in as transracial adoptee and therapist Amanda shares her pathway to inspire and empower you along yours.

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Identity is tricky for us. As adoptees we're great at describing trauma, less great at describing identity. The truth of who we are is simpler than we've been lead to believe. But we have to go deep to see that simplicity. Today's podcast is my take on "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I hope you enjoy it.

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Do you feel there's something wrong with you? It's a feeling that has haunted many of us for as long as we can remember. So how do we finally see our worth? Ann shares insights along her long journey to feeling good enough so you can do the same.

About Ann

Since 1977, Ann Haralambie has been a trial and appellate attorney in Tucson, Arizona, focusing on children: custody, abuse and neglect, adoption, and child advocacy. Adopted in infancy in New York, where all records were sealed, she wanted to know her biological roots and the true stories of her birth families. As a preadolescent she knew that someday she would try to find her birth parents, even though she loved her adoptive family. After attending college and graduate school, earning a BA in Creative Writing and an MA in English Literature, she went to law school and learned about the new adoptee rights movement. She began her active search while still in law school, continuing for more than 35 years before finally finding the truth about her roots. She has been able to share those roots with her late daughter, Katherine, and grandson, Dominic. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and Silver Lake, New Hampshire, where she spends time protecting the loons and their chicks.

About her book:  "Not Nicholson: The Story of a First Daughter, an adoption search and reunion memoir" 

This is a story about family, adoption, heritage, and identity. It is also about place and people. Haralambie invites you to accompany her on her search for her biological roots, the hurdles and misdirections, and what happens when she finally finds out who her biological family members are. Every adoption search and reunion are different. The results, and how each adoptee deals with them, are also different. But everyone who has been touched by adoption—whether directly or through friends, professional clients, or patients—can learn from others' experiences. Haralambie's journey will intrigue readers and may make them laugh and cry. It will surely get them thinking about their own identity and heritage. Her message for readers is to approach the quest with kindness and understanding.

Her website is  https://notnicholson.haralambie.com/.

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How do you keep going when your world has been turned upside down? When you find out that you've been lied to over and again? When the shocking truth comes out. Listen in as Michelle shares her inspirational story of resilience and dogged determination as she found out who she really is.

Michelle Rice-Gauvreau is a native Mohawk woman born in Canada and raised in Connecticut via an illegal adoption, which was commonplace for many Indian babies throughout many years across North America.   She is a compassionate advocate for all adoptees looking for their own truth, peace and hope.  She hopes to instill her strength to any adoptee struggling to find their way.

Michelle now works as a legal professional for a prestigious law firm. She resides in Connecticut with her husband of many years, and her two senior cats.  She enjoys traveling and learning more about native cultures far and wide. Find out more at:

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