Tag: adoption is a lifelong journey
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Grief in Adoption
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in Adoptees Educate, China, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USACosette shares deep feelings of grief during her life, coming to terms with all she’s lost and might never know. Being adopted means living deep grief.
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Andrea shares about Adoptee Anger
Andrea shares her experience of feeling angry as an adoptee because of the racism and lack of support at school.
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Toxicity and Grief
by Dan R Moen, adopted from the Philippines to the USA. Part three of this series focuses on toxicity and its impact with grief. The black vine-like shapes represent toxicity and how it manifests itself within and around all of us. It’s depicted as an uncontrollable beast and has completely engulfed an individual. It grows…
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Relinquishment, Adoption and Grief
Bina shares about the loss that goes unrecognised in adoption during November, Adoption Awareness Month and highlights the necessity of support for grieving.
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My Father’s Death Anniversary
My Huong Le celebrates her American father in a Vietnamese tradition known as celebrating the Death Anniversary of loved ones. Sadly she never got to meet him.
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I’m like a Deer Caught in the Headlights
by Krem0076, an Korean intercountry adoptee raised in the USA. I am an adoptee from a closed international adoption. I have paperwork but for many of us, our paperwork is often fraught with mistakes, lies and discrepancies. That is a challenge – is my information accurate? My birth name? My birthdate? My origin story if…
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Dualities
Artwork by Dilsah, adopted from Sri Lanka to Switzerland. She explores the duality of the adoptee experience.
