Adoptees On

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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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

Meet Laura Callen, the founder of the Adoption Museum Project. Laura gives the most vivid recounting of a triggering situation that only another adopted person could understand and we talk about that ...

10 Nov 201759min

Today I welcome Kristen Garaffo to share her story. Kristen discovered adoption had a deeper impact on her life than she originally realized. She shares some incredible moments of clarity she's had al...

3 Nov 201742min

Meet Gareth Price, a magical realism artist from New Zealand. We talk a lot about what being an adoptee feels like and the accompanying anger that Gareth tells me he's dealt with all his life. Gareth ...

27 Okt 20171h 1min