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The Adoption Files — 173 episodes · page 1 of 2
Seeing or Solving: Adoption and Spiritual Trauma
Being Held, or How Attending CUB 2026 Profoundly Impacted Me
Adoption Abolition: A Conversation
Quality Counts: Early Connections and Big Questions; continuing the conversation on adoption and spiritual trauma
Holding Space: Healing in Relationship
Turning Towards the Pain: a Continuing Conversation on Spiritual Trauma and Adoption
Healing, Recovery, Remaking: Which makes sense for you?
Gods will or?
I am terrible at titles. Continuing the conversation about spiritual trauma as people impacted by adoption
Feel the Feelings: continuing our conversation on spiritual trauma
How to use Spirituality as a Defense against Discomfort: Spiritual Bypassing
Your Feelings Matter: the Core Emotions and Spiritual Trauma
Victim, Villain, Valiant Hero: The Drama Triangle and Spiritual Trauma
Let's: See What Develops: The Essentials. Continuing the conversation on spiritual trauma
Returning to the Familiar: When we keep going back to things that hurt
What we need from the beginning: Continuing the conversation on spiritual trauma
Alert: California SB 381. California adopted people need your support
The Culture we Swim in, Pt 2. Spiritual Trauma is NOT fun!
The Culture we swim in: continuing the conversation on spiritual trauma and adoption
The Adoption Paradox: a Conversation with Author Jean Kelly Widner
Fundamentally Bad: a Survivor's Universal Experience of Spiritual Trauma
This Feels Familiar: How leaving the system that harmed you can be hard to do. Plus more fun stuff about spiritual trauma!
System Erasure; Ecological Systems Theory and adoption. More on Spiritual Trauma and Adoption
Happy Mother's Day?
Feeling naked: continuing the conversation about spiritual trauma
Codependency, yuck.
The Same , Even if it Seems Different: a conversation with a stepparent adoptee about access to original birth certificates
Consequences and Compliance : continuing our exploration of how spiritual trauma exists in our lives as a first mom and an adopted person
To Be Real: a conversation with Elizabeth Barbour, New York Adoptee.
Catching up with Paige Strickland, pt 2
Catching up with Paige Strickland: Pt 1 of a conversation about obtaining an Ohio adoption file
Coping Strategies; Finding Ways to Live with Loss Pt 2 of my conversation with mom Cindy Shultz
Control: figuring out how spiritual forms of control have played out
All Tied Up: Spiritual and Religious Trauma
Tiny, Little Happy Bows: How Trauma Lives in the Body. Continuing the conversation on Spiritual Trauma and Adoption
Beyond the Band-Aid: going Deeper into the Examination of Spiritual Trauma and Adoption
Finding Our Way: Continuing the Conversation Concerning Spiritual Trauma and Adoption
Adriana Calin is still fighting to be recognized as a person: A Romanian Adoptee/ Human Trade Victim
The Mom Myth: thoughts on my conversation with Cindy Shultz
Open Adoption is Not the Answer: a conversation with Cindy Shultz
Fragmentation: continuing the conversation . Holy Hurt and Spiritual Trauma, episode 2
Be a Partner in Something Powerful: a conversation with Sullivan Summer, Lora Alegria and Lilly Anspach, the Board of Adoptees for Family Preservation
At the Intersection of adoption and spiritual trauma; Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing by Hillary L McBride PhD,
Spiritual Trauma and Adoption, an unholy union. Reviewing Holy Hurt by Hillary L McBride PhD from the lens of an adoptee and a first mom's experiences
Did they or didn't they? The Conclusion to my trip to Georgia to maybe meet maternal family
Movement
A Very Messy conversation with myself
California has a bill! Ca SB 381 needs your support.
Good Intentions A conversation on adoption with Lorah Gerald
Every Voice: A conversation with North Dakota Adoptee Mary Kae Kelsch
a Stolen Identity, a Fraudulent Adoption; Part 4 of Adriana's Story
A Stolen Identity, a Fraudulent Adoption: Part 3(ish) of Adriana's story
A Stolen Identity, a Fraudulent Adoption: Part 2 of Adriana's story
A Stolen Identity, a fraudulent adoption: Part One of Adriana's story
Love is not enough: a conversation with Lorah Gerald about the National Adoption Competence Mental Health Training Initiative
Sacred Information: Partnering with your Partner during their Search
The Marketing of Open Adoption: a Lived Experience, with Connor Howe
No Magical Mind-reading: An Adoptee and Non-Adoptee in a Romantic Relationship. A Conversation with Andrea Steiner-Coates and Greg Gentry
Adoptee/ Non1Adoptee conversations: being curious, with Andrea Steiner Coates
Almost Loved: a NAAM conversation with poet and adopted person Rena Joy
Courage: a conversation with Lorah Gerald for National Adoption Awareness Month
Finding identity, and Community: a conversation with Haley Radke
The Odd One: a NAAM episode
Healing the Wounds: therapy
Illegitimate: TJ Johnson, musician, English teacher and adopted person, shares
Wait, What? My first blog post; attempting to navigate adoption
National Adoption Awareness Month: Sophi Richman Fletcher shares on finding her father
National Adoption Awareness Month 2024
Entitlement in Adoption; a deconstruction exploration
Deconstruction and Sexuality: Why its important to talk about sex
Adoptee Advocates of Michigan: a conversation with Anna Thompson and Valerie LeMieux
There's no such thing as utopia, and other pitfalls of deconstruction
Transracial Adoption, Racism and Suicidality; a Conversation with Lina Vanegas, MSW
Deconstruction, adoption and the morass that is American politics
The Godly Family: deconstructing from adoption and religious trauma; a conversation with Dani Joy
Braving the National Council for Adoption conference: a conversation with Katie Nelson Burns and Renee Gellin
Final Thoughts: wrapping up our reveiw of Conceiving Christian America
Supreme Appeal: the run-up to the overturning of Roe v Wade
Deconstruction: a conversation with Dani Joy about examining narratives around racism, adoption and faith
A Warm Body: They Just Need a Receptive Uterus!
Disability and embryo "adoption" Part 2 of our discussion of Chapter 4, Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Justice by Risa Cromer
Attending Untangling our Roots, or, Ande tries hard to not freak out
A discussion of Conceiving Christian America with Guest Lorah Gerald, Chapter Unselection
Waiting; an Interlude. Conceiving Christian America; Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer. A discussion
A conversation with Donna Jane, a California adoptee
Support Californias' Senate Bill 1274
Part 2 of Ch 3 Conceiving Christian America; Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer, as discussion
Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer, Ch 3. Or, as Lynn calls it These Gifts are never Free
Embryo Saviorism : Ch 2 Conceiving Christian America
Claiming Adoption: Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics
Chapter 1 Life After IVF, Conceiving Christian America; Embryo Adotion and Reproductive Politics
What we call things matters: Conceiving Christian America; Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics Episode 3
Exploring the Intro to Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer.
Interview with Katie Nelson Burns of The Family Preservation Project
Interview with Jennifer Trudeau of Parents Partnership
A Note on the new series Conceiving Christian America; Snowflake Adoption
Conceiving Christian America: introducing a new series on Snowflake Adoption, with Ande Stanley and Lynn Grubb
Interview with Valerie from Washington Adoption Reunion Movement
Interview with Beth Steury
Virginia's House Bill 550, with guest Rebecca Ricardo