December- Birthday and Holidays
The holidays are not always kind to adoptees. The focus on family can cause feelings of loss to surface and bring up complex emotions around
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Adoption Blog
- Nov 21, 2022
- 5 min
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...
- Nov 5, 2022
- 4 min
I Hate Adoption -/əˈdäpSH(ə)n/
I hate I was born into adoption. I hate I bore a son into adoption. These were the first two statements that came to mind this morning...
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Adoption Voices on Social Media
If you are an adoptee, birth family, adoptive parent, or prospective adoptive family, I hope you have found adoptee voices to follow on...
- Sep 23, 2022
- 4 min
Rebranded - A Memoir (Excerpt II )
"What makes you think I want you to have my baby."
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
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...
- Jul 26, 2022
- 3 min
Reunion Aftermath - Birth Mother Perspective
My reunion with my birth son Michael officially began on Easter Sunday, 2018, three days before my dad's (adoptive) death. That was one...
- May 12, 2022
- 4 min
What's Up with Hostility Towards Adoptee Voices?
I am not sure why there is so much anger directed at adoptees if their narrative does not end in rainbows and Skittles.
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
Adoption Loss - Adoptive Father
Losing an adoptive father; Is grief different?
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
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,...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
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;...
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
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...
- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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