J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
Tag: grief and loss
Grieving Mother
Joey is adopted from China to the USA and writes about his grief for his first mother.
perils of a foreign born adoptee
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
Celebrating Secrets and Sadness
Adoptee birthdays are a day of celebrating secrets and sadness, a complex day of emotions reminding us we are not with the ones who birthed us.
Anxiety Triggers
I had my first panic attack almost fifteen years ago. I had just found out that my then partner was pregnant. As happy as I was for her and us that we were having a baby, something inside of me which I had suppressed for my whole life, without being aware of until then, was …
Adoptee Anger
Lynelle shares about adoptee anger, how it connects to abandonment feelings, grief, loss and sadness; the best response is to listen and validate our feelings