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Diagnosis

On January 10, 2025December 30, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Complexities in Adoption, Generational trauma, Germany, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Jonas Haid shares his latest artwork Diagnosis that helps him see himself and the complex impacts of adoption.

Learning to Grieve as a Child

On March 5, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Activism, adoption reform, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Suicide, Therapy, Trauma in Adoption, UKLeave a comment

Paul expresses the depths of pain and healing an adoptee undergoes who has suffered complex trauma via relinquishment and adoption via his artwork and writing.

The Significance of Adoptee Eyes

On March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Korean Australian adoptee Alexis Bartlett shares her digital art project exploring adoptee stories. In this piece, Alexis portrays the significance of our eyes.

On the Road to Recovery

On November 18, 2021July 25, 2022 By Desiree MaruIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Stephanie shares her 5 tips that helped her on the road to recovery as an intercountry adoptee. Adopted from the Philippines to the USA.

Sunday Junk Journaling

On August 26, 2021July 29, 2022 By Desiree MaruIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Filipino adoptee Desiree Maru shares her method of Junk Journaling that gives her a tool to help process life and its challenges. Creative, therapeutic, fun.

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