Adoptees On

You may remember Jemma's first appearance on the podcast where her biological mother adopted Jemma back. Well, things have changed quite a bit from that happy ending. Jemma felt it was crucial for ado...

23 Aug 20191h 5min

Revisiting a fave episode... next week we have an update from Jemma! Can you really be adopted back into your family of origin? Today I get to introduce you to Jemma Sullivan, and she shares some incr...

16 Aug 201953min

Revisiting another fave Healing Series episode. Adoptees often struggle in intimate-partner relationships because we had our trust broken at a very early age. In this episode of the healing series, Ma...

9 Aug 201932min

Revisiting a fave Healing Series episode today! Marta Drachenberg, LMHC, teaches us about the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, something she feels is particularly effective for adoptees. Marta exp...

2 Aug 201935min

Revisiting a fave episode from 2018. Listen in to an incredibly intimate conversation between Janet Weinreich-Keall and both of her fathers, Emil Weinreich, and Gordon Keall. We discuss Emil's shock o...

26 Jul 20191h 7min

Revisiting a favourite episode from 2018! Listen as Janet Weinreich-Keall shares how she had to rely on the media and complete strangers to help her unravel the largest known case of serial abandonmen...

19 Jul 20191h 5min

Today Janet Nordine, MS, LMFT is back to address grief. This time she is teaching us about experiencing grief as an adult adoptee. Have you lost a loved one recently? Revisiting grief as an adult adop...

12 Jul 201921min

Today's phenomenal guest you NEED to hear from is Mariama J. Lockington, author of For Black Girls Like Me (which releases this month on July 30, 2019). We talk about her experiences growing up as a t...

5 Jul 20191h 5min