Adoptees On

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

Shannon Peck, a conceptual artist, shares her story. Adopted at 11 days old, she had an "idyllic childhood" and yet something was amiss in her life. In her forties, Shannon discovered attachment theor...

20 Okt 201756min

This is a special episode where I bring you some recordings I made when attending the Concerned United Birthparents Retreat in Carlsbad, CA. I talked with adoptees, first mothers, and a grandmother of...

13 Okt 201727min

Today we discuss what happens when you search for your origins and find out you're too late. Tracy also shares some painful stories about what her childhood experience of growing up with a narcissisti...

29 Sep 201751min

Derek Frank tells his story about how the movie Philomena brought his desire, to know where he came from, to the surface. We talk about his reunion with his birth father and siblings and what's holdin...

22 Sep 20171h 37min

Ridghaus shares about relinquishing a son at age 19, and then moving ahead to age 35, he is surprised to learn he too is adopted. We discuss the crisis of identity caused by late discovery and how he ...

15 Sep 201759min