246 - Everyone Is Doing The Best They Can With The Skills They Have
Jean, from Boulder City, Nevada, shared that her raising parents had their flaws, from addiction to enablement, but she knows they loved her and they did the best they could with what they had in thei...
9 Nov 202441min
245 - Anybody Alive Is Off Limits
Curt, from in Las Vegas, Nevada, felt like something was off in his family when he was a kid, so he he set out to find his own way. As an adult, Curt got curious about locating his birth family, but c...
2 Nov 20241h 1min
244 - Love is Meant to Multiply
Patrice, from Northern Virginia, said that in her house adoption was never discussed when she was a kid. So her curiosity led to a secret search as an adult. While her birth mother had no plans to mee...
26 Okt 202446min
243 - Out of the Turtle Shell
Sharon, from Springfield, Missouri, grew up in a small town as part of a large family. After leaving home, she became pregnant and was abandoned by the birth father. Following the placement of her dau...
19 Okt 202451min
241 - Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me
Janet spoke to me from her home in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She grew up with an adoptive mother who presented to the outside community as a saint whom everyone loved. But at home she was unkind to h...
13 Okt 20241h 6min
242 - Maintaining My Present Peace
Baya called me from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. She was raised in Germany by parents who grew up in post-World War II Germany, along with an abusive older brother. In her town, everyone knew Baya was a...
12 Okt 202434min
240 - I Was Hoping That Somebody Would Love Me
Jim, from Gilroy, California, Jim was born in the early 1960s in San Jose, California. His adoption story is complex, shaped by the trauma and loss his adoptive parents faced after losing their younge...
28 Sep 202458min
239 - Stolen From My Homeland
Moses is an adoption trauma educator and therapist, but his own personal journey as an adoptee is one of hardship and resilience. To use his words, Moses was stolen from South Korea at the age of two,...
21 Sep 202452min
