Adoptees On

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, author of the stunning graphic memoir called Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption is our guest. She shares some of her story with us and then we dive into a conversation...

24 Jan 202055min

Cathy Caputo is our first guest of the new year and she has quite a surprising story, so I'm not going to spoil anything here. We talk about closed adoption, grief and loss, and what it's for meant fo...

17 Jan 202059min

Today the creator of Not Your Orphan is sharing their story with us, Blake Gibbins is here! Blake and I talk about what happened three years ago to kick him out of the fog, we discuss grief and some l...

13 Dec 201957min

Lilly Schmaltz is with us today, you may know her as Adoptee Lilly on YouTube. Lilly shares her story of what pulled her into adoptee advocacy and why she's so adamant about pushing back against the s...

6 Dec 201956min

The holiday season is here and some of us could really use the support. In this episode, we ask one of our favourite adoptee therapists, Lesli A. Johnson, MFT, your questions about how to navigate the...

28 Nov 201950min

Stephanie Tait shares her story of being adopted from foster care, her childhood growing up in a conservative evangelical family, and navigating secondary rejection via ghosting by her birth mother. W...

22 Nov 20191h 6min

It is our honour to welcome Deanna Shrodes to the podcast. Deanna and I talk about her decades-long reunion with her biological mother and her mother's heartbreaking promise to take her birthfather's ...

15 Nov 20191h 1min

We are back with Lesli A. Johnson, MFT! In this Healing Series episode, we are examining the concept of reunion. Why did "they" pick 18 as the age for when adoptees are supposedly ready to reunite or ...

8 Nov 201929min