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What's Your Attachment Style?

While making a smoothie, my inner voice said, "I am afraid to form attachments to people because everything I love gets taken away." I...

Would You Rather Not Have Been Adopted?

It has been over a month since my last published blog. I wish I could say I was busy working on my memoir or other writing endeavors, but...

Rebranded - A Memoir (excerpt )

Junk Mail It was official; my birth certificate was a lie. I had waited 16,831 days (46 years) for information that arrived between an...

Adoption? Is it Good or Bad?

I was reviewing my post thus far and realized a component was missing; My clear opinion on if adoption is good or bad? The short answer, I

Healing is Essential

As an adoptee and a birth mother, healing has been a journey. Today I recognized the old, unhealed version of myself in my birth mother,...

Duality - Adoptee vs Birth Mother

Adoptee Perspective I grew up in a family of other adoptees whom I never spoke with about adoption, then or now. I don't know why;...

My Birth Certificate Is a Lie

I received my real birth certificate on January 27, 2016. Colorado adoption laws had changed and allowed me to purchase my birth...

Birth Mother Confessions-Luck of the Irish

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March Adoption Madness

March Adoption Madness-

Rebranding | Name Change Game

I thought one of my first blogs should explain why the heading of my site is "Rebranded." The general definition of rebranded is to...