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Tag: traumas triggered at reunion

Healing as a Transracial Adoptee

On December 5, 2021April 12, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee vulnerability, Alternate therapies in adoption, Grief and Loss, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Kamina shares her pathway of finding healing as an adoptee through many methods and routes, eventually discovering plant medicines which have proven successful.

The Ocean, My Mother

On September 16, 2021September 15, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Allison shares the struggles of reunion and beyond, the disappointments, re-traumatisation when our mothers reject us again; the lifelong journey of adoption.

Shape Shifting

On August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn China, Grief and Loss, Illicit Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Daughter lost via adoption from her Chinese father, tells her perspective of the complexities reunion brings up for them both and the losses that remain lifelong.

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