In this week’s Unraveling Adoption podcast, Beth talks with Simon Benn, an adoptee living near York, England and host of Thriving Adoptees podcast. I was recently on his show, so I wanted him to be on our show as well. Trading podcasts across the globe. Simon has been on a healing journey for the last 13 or so years, after a discovery about his adoption that rocked his world. He wants to help other adoptees move toward healing with his podcast and webinars.

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RESOURCES:

Simon’s information:

• Simon’s podcast Thriving Adoptees: https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com/

• Beth’s episode on Thriving Adoptees: https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com/episodes/personal-growth-with-adoptive-mom-beth-syverson

• Simon’s recent Healing My Primal Wound webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnz7I7V_IOQ

 

Other resource mentioned in this episode:

• Rupert Spira: https://rupertspira.com/

 

More Resources:

• APtitude Support Group for Adoptive Parents Facing Adoption’s Challenges: UnravelingAdoption.com/APtitude

• Other Parents Like Me -  https://www.facebook.com/other.parents.like.me

• Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents of Addicted Teens: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/

• Find a Tele-Therapist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/online-counseling

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Music written and performed by Joseph Nakao

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TIME STAMPS:

  1:18 Simon’s adoption story and childhood

  4:14 What Simon’s adoption file revealed about his birth mother

  7:35 Revelations and epiphanies

10:05 What is the primal wound? What is wounded? Simon’s new metaphor

18:55 There’s no such thing as a second-hand insight

21:23 Simon’s advice for adoptees coming “out of the fog”

25:05 Simon reading his poems “Beneath” and “After the Fog”