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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.

A Life has been Lived Before Adoption

On August 28, 2022January 21, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adjustment and Transition, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Ethiopia, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Older Age Adoptions, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Meseret shares about the complexities of being adopted at an older age, having memories of life before adoption, learning how to trust her new adoptive family.

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