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Tag: connecting to the inner child

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.

Grieving for the Child of the Past

On December 13, 2021June 1, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee vulnerability, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Philippines, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USA1 Comment

Dan R Moen, Filipino adoptee and talented artist shares a 3 part series of paintings depicting the internal struggles an intercountry adoptee traverses.