Tag: identity and belonging

Growing Up Between Worlds as a Transracial Adoptee and Third Culture Kid

On By Guest BloggerIn Adjustment and Transition, Adoptees Educate, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Nepal, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Third Culture Kid (TCK), Third Culture Kid Identity, Transracial Adoption, UK1 Comment

Rachel, a Nepalese transracial intercountry adoptee and Third Culture Kid reflects on race, belonging, identity, privilege, and growing up between cultures and worlds.

From Silence to Self: An Adoptee’s Song

On By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Anger, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption questions, Adoptive parents, Belgium, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Grief and Loss for adoptive parents, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Motherloss, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Survival mechanisms, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, VietnamLeave a comment

Cao shares a song written across decades, exploring search, grief, identity, and healing after loss, silence, and self-acceptance.