Tag: support adoptees in their grief and loss
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Grief in Adoption
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in Adoptees Educate, China, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USACosette shares deep feelings of grief during her life, coming to terms with all she’s lost and might never know. Being adopted means living deep grief.
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Embracing Therapy as an Adoptee
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in Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Russia, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USAOleg shares the journey from being ashamed of needing therapy to fully embracing and recognising the benefits it added to his life as an intercountry adoptee.
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The Trauma Inherent in Relinquishment and Adoption
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in Abandonment and Rejection, Adjustment and Transition, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Gratitude in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Racism in Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLynelle’s recent Podcast interview with Doc Shauna Springer on the trauma inherent in adoption.
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Bought and Sold, This is Adoption!
Lina does not sugarcoat what adoption is, from her lived experience she was bought and sold. Let’s be honest when we talk about adoption.
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A Vigil for Christian Hall, 1 Year On
An online vigil, 30 Dec 2021, in honour of Christian Hall, adopted from China to the USA, shot to death by police during a mental health episode.
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Adoptees and Suicide at Xmas and New Year
Lynelle shares about this time of the year where some adoptees can struggle because it can amplify feelings of aloneness and isolation. Reach out to adoptees.
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Does My Perspective Matter?
Part 2 of a 3 part artwork series that Dan Moen creates to share about his adoption experience, in this piece he paints to portray the lived experience of grief
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Relinquishment, Adoption and Grief
Bina shares about the loss that goes unrecognised in adoption during November, Adoption Awareness Month and highlights the necessity of support for grieving.
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Origins matter
Mimi shares the adoptee reality of straddling two countries, cultures and people. Natural disasters trigger our thoughts about our birth country.
