Latest Adoption trauma Podcast Episodes
Healing Trauma Stuck In Our Bodies With Laurie James
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - March 14, 2024 09:14 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCould trauma still be stuck in your body? Perhaps you've done a lot of talk therapy and yet you're still triggered. Talk therapy has a tough time healing trauma that we can't remember or that happened before we had words. Listen in as adoptee and coach Laurie dives deep into somatic healing and ...
Healing Trauma Stuck In Our Bodies
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - March 14, 2024 09:14 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCould trauma still be stuck in your body? Perhaps you've done a lot of talk therapy and yet you're still triggered. Talk therapy has a tough time healing trauma that we can't remember or that happened before we had words. Listen in as adoptee and coach Laurie dives deep into somatic healing and ...
Authentically You With Jean Provance
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - March 12, 2024 10:55 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDo you want to do you? Expressing the truth of you are? Feeling the whole of your emotions? Listen in as adoptee and clinical social worker Jean shares her learnings on authenticity so you can do you. Here's a link to Jean's interview on busting beliefs https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com...
Challenging Beliefs With RoderickE
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - March 06, 2024 10:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis interview challenged me. And that's a good thing. Introspection and questioning our beliefs can lead to change for the better. A different perspective. A healing perspective. Roderick's perspective is very different. You might find it challenging like I did. Listen in and make up your own m...
Feeling Healing With Fred Nicora
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - March 05, 2024 12:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHave you ever numbed, denied or suppressed your feelings? To fit in? Or because the feelings hurt so much they threatened to engulf you? Listen in as Fred shares his insights on feeling to heal. Here's a link to Fred's first interview https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com/episodes/discoverin...
Reclaiming You Rae - Adoptee Reclaimed
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - March 01, 2024 10:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDo you feel you've lost yourself through being adopted? Listen in as adoptee and adoptee coach Rae shares her take on finding ourselves, how insights heal and overcoming emotional challenges. Enlightening and empowering. Here's a bit about Rae from her website: I'm a domestic U.S. adoptee, ado...
Lightbulb Moments Rebecca Ricardo
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 29, 2024 09:26 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow clear on you on what heals you? The clearer we get, the better we heal. Listen in as adoptee, birth mother and adoption professional Rebecca shares how lightbulb moments in and after her darkest moments have brought clarity to her healing journey. Connect with Rebecca here: https://www.lin...
Peace, Finally With Eva Asprakis
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 28, 2024 09:25 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAre you conflicted? Caught between your biological and adoptive mothers, fathers or broader families? Seeking peace, love or something else that you can't get? Eva's story is very different to most adoptees' stories and yet many of the feelings are the same. That different story gives us a fres...
Holistic Healing Sarah Patstone
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 27, 2024 09:09 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow's your healing? If you're looking for more healing then a broader, holistic, view may help you jump the barriers on your journey. Listen in as adoptee and holistic healer for adoptees Sarah goes wide (and deep) to speed you along. Here's a bit about Sarah "I am 53 yrs old adoptee, English/...
Less Hurt By The Hurt Ferera Swan
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 26, 2024 08:57 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAre your feelings sometimes unbearable? No wonder we try to stuff them down! But that doesn't work does it? So what are we to do? Listen in as Ferera shares her take on healing and feeling less hurt by the hurt. Trigger warning: mention of suicide ideation. Bridging music and activism for adopt...
Befriending Loss With Jennifer Jue-Steuck
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 23, 2024 08:42 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSo many of us spent so long pushing tough emotions like loss away. So much of that has been unconscious. What if we can welcome loss in like a friend? So it loses its power over us? Jen shares her learnings from the loss of two mothers. From Laguna Beach (Orange County), California, Jennifer B...
Grace With Louise Browne
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 22, 2024 10:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWould you like a better relationship with yourself? Less anxiety? Less anger? Listen in as we talk about forgiving ourselves, grace and much more. I don't usually swear on the podcast but I do so for emphasis. Sorry for any offence caused. Would you like a better relationship with yourself? Les...
40 Years Of Healing With Paige Strickland
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 20, 2024 07:40 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOne of the strongest themes in our conversations on healing is that it's an ongoing process. So what do learn over that process that helps us along that process? Listen in as Paige shares what she's done and continues to do to help her along the process. Paige Adams Strickland (1961- ) was born...
Gratitude Josee Brault
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 19, 2024 09:05 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow do you feel when say that you should be grateful for having been adopted? Angry? Frustrated? Invalidated? Feeling grateful is totally different to being told to feel grateful. Listen in as Josee shares a lifetime's of insights on gratitude and much more. https://www.facebook.com/JoseeBraul...
Unshackling From Trauma With Adoptee Suni Zmich
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - February 01, 2024 09:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDoes trauma sometimes keep you locked up?Listen in as transracial adoptee shares Suni powerful insights about breaking free from our trauma to find the freedom that sets us free. Here's a link to Suni's previous interview https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com/episodes/lightbulb-moments-with-...
Peace With Gilli Bruce
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 31, 2024 08:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPeace. Isn't that what all want? Or maybe just a bit more peace would be nice. A bit more well, peaceful. Triggered less of the time. Trigger for shorter periods of time. How do we find peace when our nervous systems have been shot to pieces? When we are constantly hyped up and hyper-vigilant. A...
Choices With Jill Bolte Taylor
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 30, 2024 09:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMost of us aren't choosing how we feel most of the time. Most of us aren't choosing what we think most of the time. Our trauma is choosing our thoughts and feelings for us. So how DO we choose? Listen in as neuroanatomist Dr Jill Bolte Taylor dives deep into learning to choose. Fascinating and e...
Seeing Our Potential With Anneke Vinke
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 24, 2024 09:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhilst we are consumed with our trauma, we miss our potential. Listen in as therapist Anneke points us towards hope, the future and healing. Profound and empowering. Here's a bit about Anneke Vinke from her website: " I studied orthopedagogy in Nijmegen, specializing in educational and behavio...
Growth With Linda Pevac aka Emma Stevens
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 23, 2024 10:53 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow do we grow? What stops us growing? How do we remove those barriers? Emma shares hard won insights to empower us along our life-long healing journey. Her first interview https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com/episodes/freedom-with-emma-stevens Her second interview https://thriving-adopte...
Open With Fiona Myles
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 19, 2024 10:18 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow do we move forward on our healing journey given the complexities around adoption. Remaining open seems to be one of Fiona's key drivers. Listen in as she shares insights from navigating her ongoing healing process. https://www.fionamylesauthor.com/books https://www.facebook.com/fionamyles...
Healing & Reunion with Melisha Mitchell & Lizz Hutchison
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 18, 2024 09:27 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow many reunions are still going over 2 decades later? How does reunion help healing? Listen in as birth mother Melisha and her daughter Lizz talk about what they have learned through reunion. Melisha also talks about Barrack Obama and his role supporting her change adoption law in Illinois. ...
Connected With Sara Docan-Morgan
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 17, 2024 12:25 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDo you want to feel more connected? Listen in as transnational adoptee Sara shares how she found that feeling of connection with her birth family. You're going to want to listen to the very end. She touches on profound and surprising insights that will touch you even if you're not a transnationa...
Learning To Heal With Vin
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 16, 2024 08:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIf you're stuck on your healing journey it may be because you're not seeing clearly. I know I've done that. But we don't know what we don't know. So grace for ourselves is really important. Vin turns the tables on me to explore some of what I've learned from my own experience and over 400 interv...
Out Of The Abyss With Lisa Ann
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 15, 2024 12:08 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBeing stuck in the abyss hurts like hell. So how did Lisa Ann find a ladder out? Listen in for a deep exploration of healing through self reflection and discovery. Adoptee Lisa Ann is the engaging host of Wandering Tree Podcast connecting with her guests on thought-provoking discussions focused...
Feeling Whole With Candace Cahill
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 11, 2024 09:21 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDo you yearn to feel whole? Understanding the really tough stuff birth mothers went (and are still going through) has profound effects on how us adoptees feel. Candace lost her son. Twice. The first time to adoption and the second not long after their reunion twenty years later. She also suffere...
Processing Trauma To Heal With Liz DeBetta
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 09, 2024 09:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe have to feel it to heal it. So how do we do that? Listen in as Liz sets out how the creative process that helps her process trauma. We dive into granular detail to catalyse you to your own insights and shifts in perspective. Find out more about Liz: https://www.instagram.com/lizdebetta/ ht...
Healing, Holistically With Kelly Williams
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 08, 2024 09:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDo you sometimes feel you're getting nowhere fast? Like you're treading water instead of making progress? I don't know about you but I've gotten stuck a lot of times on my healing journey. So what's the catalyst that moves us on? A shift in our perspective. Seeing the bigger picture. Spotting th...
Wave After Wave With Janeen Jackson
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - January 04, 2024 09:16 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWave after wave of powerful emotions threaten to engulf us as trauma blows like a force 10 gale. Anxiety, insecurity and fear feel like they can drown us. So how do we ride the waves rather than fighting them? Because we know that's futile right? Listen in as we take a deep dive into the storm t...
Overcoming Issues With Abandonment and Anger With Guy Gray
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - December 18, 2023 10:12 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this podcast, Guy Gray walks us through dealing with anger that has come up as a result of abandonment. Guy was placed for adoption at birth and was in a foster home until he was 10 weeks old. Guy feels that his adopted parents were loving and nurturing. Yet the feelings of the initial wound...
Feeling Whole With Dawn Tracz
Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive - December 15, 2023 09:27 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSo many of us have felt wounded so long. So what would it feel like to be whole? Listen in as we explore experiencing wholeness and what get in its way. Profound and enlightening. Just how we like our conversations on Thriving Adoptees. Find out more about Dawn here: https://www.linkedin.com/i...
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