Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland

Nov 19 2024 200 ep. 48 mins 15
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Through an audio drama, episodes of thought-provoking conversations and bonus recordings, the listening audience can learn some of the issues that the adoption community face from the perspective of the adoptee.

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205. "Further Along an International Adoptee's Journey"

Nov 19 2024 66 mins  
Sandi is an international adoptee from Panama, adopted by a Black US Air Force family stationed in Panama at the time. Most of her life has been in the midwest but she moved to Virginia in 2020. She is a social worker whose 30-year career has included time in mental health & child welfare. She has been in reunion with her first mother and maternal family since 2004. She's exper

204. Bonus: "Adoptees Aren't Their Trauma"

Nov 12 2024 16 mins  
Simon Benn is the host of https://www.thrivingadoptees.com/podcastMusic by Corey Quinn

203. Sandi Caesar: "Before Dual Citizenship as an International Adoptee"

Nov 12 2024 55 mins  
Original Air Date: 07/12/2022Sandi C. is an international adoptee from Panama. Most of her life has been in the midwest but she returned to the DMV area about a year & a half ago. She is a social worker whose 30-year career has included time in mental health, adoption, and foster care. She has been in reunion with her birthmother and maternal family for 18 years.

202. Julie Brumley: Part 2/2; "A Trauma-Informed Adoptee Coach"

Nov 05 2024 54 mins  
Julie Brumley is a trauma-informed adoptee coach who has been coaching men and women for more than 15 years to overcome addictive behaviors and heal the primal trauma of abandonment. She is also the CEO of Coming Home to Self, a company dedicated to helping adoptees heal. After her own birth mother tried to abort her twice, she found herself frozen in an unconscious trauma response

201. Julie Brumley: Part 1/2; "A Trauma-Informed Adoptee Coach"

Oct 29 2024 50 mins  
Julie Brumley is a trauma-informed adoptee coach who has been coaching men and women for more than 15 years to overcome addictive behaviors and heal the primal trauma of abandonment. She is also the CEO of Coming Home to Self, a company dedicated to helping adoptees heal. After her own birth mother tried to abort her twice, she found herself frozen in an unconscious trauma response

200. Mavka: "An Imposter Among My Own People"

Oct 22 2024 50 mins  
Molly/Mavka is an early 80's Catholic Charities, closed, same-race adoptee. She has been in on-again-off-again reunion with her birth mother for 20 years, and is leisurely navigating reunion inklings with her birth father. Her adopters' choice to estrange themselves from her has offered an often-troubling-but-still-freeing expanse in which to explore her post-placement options, she

199. Kim Stevens: "One of Two"

Oct 15 2024 62 mins  
Kim Stevens was adopted in Korea along with her bio brother into the same family. They were stationed in South Korea and immigrated to the US after their adoption. Kim was raised in Central Texas in a predominantly white community with few racial mirrors and even less cultural socializations. Being in that environment, she was taught to ignore the racism and micro-aggressions which

198. Dana Ozak: "A Girl and Her Four Families"

Oct 08 2024 39 mins  
Dana Ozak  is a full-time preschool teacher, passionate adoptee advocate whenever she has time, part-time college student, part time water color artist, part time author, and whatever other free time she has is spent going on long walks with her sweet husband and hanging out with him and their college aged offspring.Website: https://girland4families.com/Music by Corey Quinn

197. Liana Soifer: "BIPOC Adoptees VOICES"

Oct 01 2024 50 mins  
Liana Soifer (she/her) is a transracial, transnational adoptee from South Korea, raised in Oregon, and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of BIPOC Adoptees VOICES, a Portland-based nonprofit leading initiatives for BIPOC adoptee communities. With a BA in Human Services, Liana has experience as a Project Manager in software and web applications. She previously ran a web design an

196. Amanda Robinson: "Between Those Scars"

Sep 24 2024 39 mins  
Amanda Robinson is a Korean adoptee. She was adopted with her twin sister and raised in Washington. Though she's wanted to be many things, currently she is a retired dental hygienist who homeschools her two kids, and is an aspiring children's lit writer in her free time. She aims to encourage kids through her future children's books.Music by Corey Quinn