Jo Sparrow - When the Search Ends
For some adopted people the search for their biological parents ends at a gravestone. This abrupt ending can create an overwhelming sense of grief and sadness made worse by a lack of answers and a pro...
2 Aug 202245min
Dr Jenny Conrick - Adoption & Mothering
Many adopted people report that their adoption experience has impacted their parenting. Today's guest is a social worker and academic at the University of Melbourne who has researched the mothering ex...
19 Juli 202256min
Natalie Lewis
Natalie Lewis is an Aboriginal and South Sea Islander woman who was adopted in Queensland in 1974. Her adoptive parents were originally from Germany and India. Because Natalie was adopted in Queenslan...
5 Juli 202252min
Tracy Shand
Today’s guest is an adoptee born in the late sixties under the closed adoption system and a cloud of secrecy. Tracy Shand searched for and reunited with her mother and sister at the age of twenty-four...
21 Juni 202245min
Benjamin Kelleher
Benjamin Kelleher was adopted from Brazil in the city of Belo Horizonte and was brought to Australia in 1989 at the age of 13 months. He was one of 5000 children in the orphanage at the time of his ad...
7 Juni 20221h 5min
Fiona Mawson - EMDR
Even if you're not quite sure what it is, chances are you've heard of Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s that ...
24 Maj 202251min
Evelyn Robinson - Grief & Loss in Adoption
Evelyn Robinson is a mother who was separated from her first child through adoption in Scotland in 1970. She later emigrated to Bermuda and then South Australia in 1982, where she still resides. Evely...
10 Maj 202245min
Evelyn Robinson - A Mother's Story
Evelyn Robinson is a mother who was separated from her first child through adoption in Scotland in 1970. She later emigrated to Bermuda and then South Australia in 1982, where she still resides. Evely...
26 Apr 202250min
