Ep. 50 Sara Easterly: The Dangers of Calling Adoption A Blessing

When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees

English - June 11, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB
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Previous Episode: Ep. 49 Jill Ashley Hoffman: How to trust your body

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Our guest today, Sara Easterly is an author and essayist who wrote a spiritual memoir called “Searching for Mom”. She writes about adoption, parenting, and grief through the lens of her Christian faith. We go into how using faith to justify adoption can make adoptees feel alienated and insignificant by framing adoption as a “blessing”. And her answer to my final question “where to apply courage” was one of my favorites. Let's lean in!

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