This post may contain affiliate links and occasional ads, which help support this blog and its mission. If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support! There’s a space in the healing journey, we don’t talk a whole […]
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Fellow adoptee Lisa shares her story with us—a powerful journey through grief, identity, and healing as she navigates the complexities of adoption, reunion, and finding hope beyond the fog. “Grateful and Perfect: An Adult Adoptee Finding Her Way Through the Fog” The Pressure to Be Grateful and Perfect My life began with the understanding
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This post may contain affiliate links and occasional ads, which help support this blog and its mission. If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support! Adoption is often framed as a beautiful new beginning, but for many
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A New Season of Healing, Faith, and Support “I am not the same person who I was when I started this blog.” It has been a while, to say the least. Although I haven’t posted or engaged much through This Adoptee Life (at least not concistently) I have been thinking, working, and praying about
My Adoption Story part 16 – The Next Chapter Together Read More »
The Weight of Confusion and the Struggle for Worth As the new year begins, many adoptees, like myself, find themselves reflecting on their journeys. For years, I carried the burden of confusion as I felt that my inner experience didn’t match my outer reality. I was striving to prove my worth to the world—and to
Embracing Self-Compassion as an Adoptee: A New Year’s Call to Hope and Healing Read More »
What is the Primal Wound? As adoptees, many of us carry an often-unseen wound that goes far beyond our visible lives. Additionally, many of us don’t even know that we carry this wound. I was 32 years old when I first heard about the “primal wound,” as coined by Nancy Verrier. This primal wound is
Healing Beyond the Primal Wound: Embracing Self-Acceptance in Our Journey Read More »
After a long hiatus, I’m excited to return to This Adoptee Life—a platform for adoptees focused on rediscovering identity, healing, and overcoming adoption-related trauma. What started as a space to share my story has become a vibrant community where adoptees come together to share theirs. As we prepare to embark on a new chapter centered
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We talk a lot about the struggles of being adoptees, the things done to us, the things we’ve dealt with and the things we have overcome. We talk about how people view adoption. We talk about the people who adopted us. We talk about the people who made our adoption happen. We talk about our
A Piece of My Writing: For the Women Who Are Adoptees and Mothers Read More »
This is the second article in a series I call “Connecting the dots”. I have said many times, a large part of my life growing up I felt so confused. The confusion lead to guilt, as I felt that because I could not understand my own behavior, there must be something wrong with me. Over
Connecting the Dots: 5 Things the Adoptee in Me Does Exceptionally Well Read More »
My definition of Adoptee Story: …the result of an adoptee exploring the story they have been told by adoptive parents, agencies and adoption documents, and instead of repeating this information as their story, start questioning the validity of said information and start adjusting the angle and terminology of the story, to develop a way to
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