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Tag: adoption trauma

Inner Work for Adoptees

On June 27, 2019June 30, 2019 By lynellelongIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

One of the highlights in travelling to the Netherlands last month was to finally meet in person Hilbrand Westra, a fellow intercountry adoptee born in South Korea and adopted to the Netherlands, whom I have liaised and worked with since the beginning of ICAV. Not only did I get to meet him in person, share …

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Parenthood Made Me Better

On February 19, 2018December 30, 2024 By jaymekyopoIn Adoptees as parents, Complexities in Adoption, Family Preservation, Generational trauma, Importance of Connections to Origins, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Sense of Belonging, South Korea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA1 Comment

Jayme shares about how becoming a parent himself has changed his life and perspective as an intercountry adoptee from South Korea.

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