Etikett: Desiree Maru
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Searching for my family in the Philippines
Desiree shares about searching for Filippino family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Adopterad sorg och Zen Meditation
Desiree delar med sig av sin resa för att erkänna och omfamna känslor av sorg och saknad som uppstår under Zen-meditation. Vi försöker alla hitta vägar mot helande.
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Nya mål som adopterad i en ny stad
Desiree shares the complexities of life as an adoptee, the challenges of finding and establishing ones roots, reinventing oneself, finding a place to just be.
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Adopterade konstnärer
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i Adopterade konstnärer, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Födelseland, Diversity in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Ursprungssökning, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionKonst är ett otroligt kraftfullt verktyg för att förmedla komplexiteten i levd upplevelse vid adoption. Här är en sammanställning av konstverket som presenterades på ICAV.
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Adoption Can Be a Psychological Prison
Desiree shares about the complexities of breaking away from toxic ties if an adoption hasn’t served our best interests.
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På väg mot återhämtning
Stephanie shares her 5 tips that helped her on the road to recovery as an intercountry adoptee. Adopted from the Philippines to the USA.
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Thriving in These Shifting Times
Stephanie writes about the intersection of emotional triggers as an adoptee and being able to handle this better now, on a larger scale during this COVID time.
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En filippinsk adopterads vädjan om att inte raderas
Dear Intercountry Adoption Board (ICAB) of the Philippines, I’m a 33-year-old Filipino American adoptee and I refuse to be erased. I refuse to be ignored. I was born in the Philippines and it was not my choice to leave. But it is my choice to return as an adult and to regain my citizenship. Because,…
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Turning Negativity into Positivity with Buddhism
Desiree shares her experience of trying Vipassana meditation at a Buddhist retreat, a way to expel her negative energies and a way to deal with adoptee anger.
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Starting a Monthly Intercountry Adoptee Pen Pal Effort
Desiree discusses her goal of starting an adoptee pen-pal program to help adoptees connect and share.
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The Growing Connections Between Adoptees and Nonadoptees
Desiree shares about the connection between adoptees and non adoptees.
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Reconstructing Identity and Heritage
Desiree shares her thoughts on being an orphan and finding her identity.
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Desiree’s Column, Filipino Intercountry Adoptee
Desiree starts her column sharing as a Filipino adoptee.
