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Tag: Chile adoption

My feelings regarding my first mom

On May 6, 2023January 21, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Chile, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Sweden, Therapy, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Maria shares on how to practically access her younger years emotions about her Chilean mother, an exercise that she was never encouraged to do while young.

The Right to Identity

On September 8, 2020November 22, 2020 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Maria Diemar shares her experience of multiple identities and the right to her original identity as a Mapuche person.

Who am I now?

On March 16, 2020November 17, 2020 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized1 Comment

By Maria Diemar from her blog at I own my Story Maria Diemar Who I am now, after my life story changed I always thought that my mom gave me up for adoptionI was an abandoned childI learnt to believe that adoption is something beautifulEven though it hurtEven though I felt abandonedEven though I felt …

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Recent Posts

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  • When Adoption Erases Sisters

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