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Tag: healing 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.

Adoptee Grief and Zen Meditation

On March 9, 2023January 21, 2024 By Desiree MaruIn Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Philippines, Therapy, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Desiree shares her journey of acknowledging and embracing feelings of grief and loss that arise during Zen meditation. We all try to find paths towards healing.

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.

An Adoptee Shares on EMDR Therapy

On June 18, 2022June 14, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Gabriela shares an experience of undergoing EMDR therapy over a number of sessions and how it helped her to process past trauma to move forward in her life.

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.

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