Adoptees On

Can we actually *heal* from adoption trauma or are we just building up a huge toolbox of coping strategies? My guests Pamela Cordano, MFT and Anne Heffron discuss creativity, why so many adoptees grav...

5 Jan 20181h 25min

Nicole Rademacher is a multicultural adoptee and a professional contemporary artist. She tells us about her reunion with her biological parents and her two brothers, and how it has informed her creati...

29 Des 201745min

Today I talk with Holly, aka Nerdy Gal, about her reunion with her first mother and some of the instigating factors that led her out of the fog. Holly also tells us how a technique called dirty pourin...

22 Des 201745min

Brian Stanton shares his story of reuniting with his birth mother, how he decided to write a one-man-show about his experience and how sharing it with audiences with a personal connection to adoption ...

15 Des 20171h 9min

Nicole Gfeller, an art therapist shares her story with us today. She dives into some of her childhood experiences and talks about how she went from being shut down emotionally to re-integrating her bo...

8 Des 201753min

Deb Sivigny, a designer and newly a playwright shares about when she started connecting the dots of the impact adoption has had on her life, and how design and writing her play, Hello, My Name Is… has...

1 Des 201752min

Lesli A. Johnson, MFT talks with us about what "coming out of the fog" means. We cover how adoptees, first parents, and adoptive parents can all experience this. Lesli and I also discuss how to move t...

24 Nov 201726min

Today I welcome Julian Kelly to share her story. Julian and I talk about her search for identity, what she's done to build stronger attachments in adulthood and how her music and songwriting allow her...

17 Nov 201753min