In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Lorah Gerald, an adoptee, an intuitive, a Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and writer. Lorah hopes to help others heal their trauma, adopted or not, by sharing her lived experiences as an adoptee as well as her education in breath work, energy healing and natural intuitive abilities.

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RESOURCES:

Lorah’s information:

• Lorah’s Website & yoga class schedule: http://lorahgerald.com/

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

• Emma Stevens’ Safe Home Podcast episode about EMDR: https://anchor.fm/safe-home-podcast/episodes/EMDR-for-Healing-Trauma-with-Emma-Stevens---Ep-38-e1h76f7
• Adoptees Connect: https://adopteesconnect.com/
• Reckoning with The Primal Wound documentary: https://reckoningwiththeprimalwound.com/

Other Resources:

• 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

Cover art by Joseph Nakao, photo by Beth Syverson

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TIME STAMPS:

1:33 Holding feelings about adoption trauma inside v. healing in community

2:49 Lorah’s adoption story as a Baby Scoop Era domestic adoptee

4:40 A better life or just a different life?

6:40 What Beth was told about adoption trauma when she adopted Joey

8:32 What Lorah’s adoptive parents knew about adoption trauma

9:20 How Lorah acted out as a teen and how she avoided addiction

10:38 Lorah’s reunion story

15:34 Lorah’s mother’s forced hysterectomy

16:46 Lorah’s reaction to her adoption story as told by her parents

20:28 Lorah’s reunion story, continued

26:40 Lorah’s healing path - yoga, reiki, reading, etc.

28:35 Kundalini yoga & processing trauma through our bodies

34:55 Other physical trauma-healing tools that Lorah uses

39:03 Adoptee-only yoga sessions

41:43 How yoga has helped Lorah with trauma and well-being

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