Mind Your Own Karma - The Adoption Chronicles

Apr 23 2024 2

Mind Your Own Karma - The Adoption Chronicles Podcast artwork

Welcome to Mind Your Own Karma – The Adoption Chronicles Podcast. This season, I'm asking birth mothers to tell their stories. I'm asking my listeners to challenge themselves and keep the episodes rolling, because I know I've grown and learned so much from it already. I want you to know, there's so much more to these stories than you imagine. I'm an adoptee myself, and I want us to look at all sides of the adoption journey for our education and healing. Emotional healing of the primal wound can happen through SMGI, an innovative self-guided hypnotherapy, so listen in for more information. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melissa-ann-brunetti/support

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

S3E17 - PART 2: MONIQUE PANGARI, ADOPTEE & TRAUMA PSYCHOTHERAPIST TALKS ABOUT ADOPTION TRAUMA TREATMENTS

Apr 23 2024 39 mins

Monique Pangari was born in Australia in 1972 at the height of the ‘Forced Adoption Era.’ Relinquished at birth and adopted at 6 weeks of age, she grew up in a family with two older adopted siblings. As a result of this complex experience, along with the rollercoaster of FOUR ‘search and reunion’ journeys, early pregnancy and parenting, and now estrangement from multiple

S3E16 - MONIQUE PANGARI, ADOPTEE & CERTIFIED TRAUMA PSYCHOTHERAPIST DISCUSSES HER ADOPTION JOURNEY

Apr 16 2024 47 mins

Monique Pangari was born in Australia in 1972 at the height of the ‘Forced Adoption Era.’ Relinquished at birth and adopted at 6 weeks of age, she grew up in a family with two older adopted siblings. As a result of this complex experience, along with the rollercoaster of FOUR ‘search and reunion’ journeys, early pregnancy and parenting, and now estrangement from multiple

S3E15 - ADOPTEE JENNIFER D. GHOSTON OF "ONCE UPON A TIME...IN ADOPTEELAND" PODCAST IS HERE & SHARES HER STORY!

Apr 09 2024 60 mins

Jennifer Dyan Ghoston is a same-race domestic adoptee in reunion with both sides of her biological family. After a 27-year career in law enforcement with the Chicago Police Department, she retired in 2014 as a police detective. In 2015, she self-published her memoir, "The Truth So Far...A Detective's Journey to Reunite With Her Birth Family." She credits her spiritua

S3E14 - OPEN ADOPTION CHALLENGES — INTERVIEW WITH VERONIQUE CANNONTERRE

Apr 02 2024 71 mins

I hope you'll join me for this conversation with Veronique. It's not often that I do interviews with adoptive parents, and maybe it's been my assumption that I know their stories already. Do you have assumptions about their stories, too? Veronique is an adoptive mother of a baby girl through an open adoption in 2021. She is originally from the French Caribbean but was

S3E13 - IDENTICAL TWINS ADOPTED TOGETHER — THE ART OF FINDING YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD WITH JULIE RYAN MCGUE

Mar 26 2024 44 mins

Julie Ryan McGue is an American writer, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. In her books, essays, and blogs, she explores the topics of finding out who you are, where you belong, and making sense of it. Her award-winning memoir, Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging, was released in May of 2021. Her work has appeared in multiple journals, anthologi

S3E12 - JESSICA PEARSON, ADOPTEE: "TRAUMA TO TRIUMPH"

Mar 19 2024 50 mins

Jessica Pearson was born in Billings MT in 1981. Her bio mother was a teenager who found herself pregnant, and with a family that wasn't interested in raising a baby and decided adoption was the best option for them. Jessica was the first private adoption in the state of Montana. She was raised by a medical doctor and stay-at-home mom, and it all seemed perfectly "normal&

S3E11 - RESCUED FROM SUICIDE ATTEMPT AT GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE — KEVIN BERTHIA REFLECTS ON HIS ADOPTION TRAUMA

Mar 12 2024 46 mins

TRIGGER WARNING! TALK OF SUICIDE. Kevin Berthia is a suicide survivor, advocate, and speaker. Kevin pours his heart into sharing his powerful story of growing up in silence, always feeling the need to hide the unbearable pain he was in. Through high school and into his early twenties, Kevin was known as the life of the party… until his very public suicide attempt at the Golden G

S3E10 ADOPTION TRAUMA DRAMA ON TIKTOK

Mar 05 2024 28 mins

TRIGGER WARNING: Themes of a traumatized adoptee infant discussed. Listen to what happened when I reposted a video I saw on TikTok showing a traumatized infant being handed over to it's new adoptive mother. If you or someone you know would like to tell their adoption story on the podcast (anyone in the adoptee constellation), please send an email to [email protected],

S3E9 - BABY SCOOP ERA BIRTH MOTHER LAURA ENGEL-YOU'LL FORGET THIS EVER HAPPENED (AUDIO ONLY)

Feb 27 2024 81 mins

TRIGGER WARNING: THEMES OF SUICIDE. Laura was a teenage girl in the '60s when she found out she was pregnant. With no support from the father of the child and feeling the shame of her circumstances from her parents, Laura found herself in a home for unwed mothers, feeling forced to give her baby up for adoption. Laura wrote a book about her experience called You’ll Forget T

S3E9 - BABY SCOOP ERA BIRTH MOTHER LAURA ENGEL-YOU'LL FORGET THIS EVER HAPPENED

Feb 27 2024 87 mins

TRIGGER WARNING: THEMES OF SUICIDE. Laura was a teenage girl in the '60s when she found out she was pregnant. With no support from the father of the child and feeling the shame of her circumstances from her parents, Laura found herself in a home for unwed mothers, feeling forced to give her baby up for adoption. Laura wrote a book about her experience called You’ll Forget Th