Happiness journey with Dr Dan podcast: Season 25 Ep 3: Special Guest Janet Sherlund and her heart-rending quest to find her birth mother in new memoir, “Abandoned at Birth”

JANET SHERLUND raised her family and served on nonprofit boards in education, health and the cultural arts before writing her memoir, Abandoned at Birth. Her single most significant life event was being given up for adoption at birth. Being adopted undermined her sense of trust and personal value and impacted every decision she made. It also led to a lifelong quest to find her biological mother, with the hope of finally feeling a tether to this world, a sense of belonging and ultimately, herself. Her memoir fulfills a lifelong dream of raising awareness about loss and grief in adoption, and why it takes more than love to survive that trauma.  A graduate of ColgateUniversity, Sherlund lives on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts.