This Korean Adoptee Had A Complicated Family Structure of Trauma & How She Learned to Heal From It

Korean Adoptee Stories is excited to introduce a Korean Adoptee: Peggy Galdamez. Peggy recounts her story of trauma where her adoptive parents divorced young. She lost to custody from her adoptive mother and her brother and her were sent to live with her adoptive father who remarried and recounts the time where she was asked at a young age to call her Step-Mom, Mom and growing up with them was strained. Since then she has struggled with her identity, abandonment issues and mental health issues. She has sought help through an adoptee competent therapist and has started her own journey of healing and learning to love herself and the shortcomings of her parents, and found ways to be happier as a mother and wife. Peggy is a health and wellness, coach, an author, and runs an adoptee support group called: Adoptees For Healing and host her own podcast called: Heal, Transform, Thrive.

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Key Topics Covered:

0:28 - Intro & Personal Background

1:58 - Relationship with Adoptive Parents

4:03 - The Strained Relationship of Her Adoptive Father & Step Mother

17:55 - Clarification Why Adoptive Mother Lost Custody

19:18 - Supportive Relationship with Adoptive Mother Yet Harboring Resentment

24:36 - Boarding School & Experiences

28:00 - Details about Older Adoptive Brother, His Psychological Trauma & Drug Abuse

34:40 - Information on Birth Family & Adoption

36:30 - Feelings on Not Knowing Birth Family & Adoptee Gathering Experience

42:30 - Relationship History, Dealing With Low Self-Esteem, Drug Abuse, Journey to Healing & Art Therapy

49:20 - Working With An Adoption Competent Therapist & Learning Boundaries, & Becoming a Better Mother

1:01:00 - Cultural Diversity & Identity Growing Up, Throughout College, & Now

1:08:00 - Raising Kids With Covid-19

1:10:00 - Details about "Adoptees For Healing" Support Group

1:14:00 - Health & Wellness Education Background

1:16:00 - Advice for People Struggling Right Now

1:22:00 - Happier Now, Taking Responsibility to Heal, & Forgiving Adoptive Mother

1:29:00 - View Point on Birth Parents, Opinions on Visiting Korea & Adoption Politics

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YouTube Video Can Be Viewed Here:

https://youtu.be/hAgpJh5IrKs

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KONNECT with our KADS:

Peggy Galdamez:

Email: KAD@peggygaldamez.com

"Adoptees For Healing" Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/adopteesforhealing

"Heal, Transform, Thrive" Podcast:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heal-transform-thrive/id1557281013

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uLnFbDi5UpjdI95zb1xQK?si=NGXnACakQ3CnZBfNpjN9MQ&dl_branch=1

"Dear Daughters, Own Worth" Book: https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Daughters-Own-Your-Worth/dp/170313883X

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aquarius_rising17

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/peggy.galdamez

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