Through an audio drama and episodes of thought-provoking conversations, the listening audience can learn some of the issues faced by those affected by adoption. The adoptee is at the center of all conversations had with other members of the adoption constellation.
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Adoption Constellation Podcasts
Host Sandra Flach is a mom of 8 children, 5 through adoption—one kinship and 4 international. Her youngest 2 are teens diagnosed with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). With over 30 years of parenting experience and 20 plus years as an adoptive and kinship parent, she’s made mountains of mistakes and learned loads of lessons. She understands the difficult road of parenting children with trauma histories—and she is still in the trenches! The Adoption & Foster Care Journey is a podcast ...
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Welcome to ADOPTION MATTERS, a podcast with real people sharing real life stories and getting real about adoption from all three perspectives of the adoption triad. I'm Kim Noeth, one of your co-hosts, and a birth mother, along with Sharon Butler Obazee, an adoptee and Sally Ankerfelt, an adoptive parent. Together we explore difficult topics and share frank conversations guided by our commitment to truth-telling and truth-seeking. In each episode we discuss important issues using adoption at ...
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This podcast is about connecting. It's about growing. It's about stretching. In society nowadays, it's easy to fall into echo chambers. This is not an echo chamber. Open Adoption Project is a community dedicated to listening and learning, and building relationships based on healthy respect and communication. The Open Adoption Project focuses on improving adoptee experiences by encouraging open communication between all members of the adoption constellation, nurturing ongoing open adoption re ...
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Maia is hosting the family constellation ViRTUAL podcast to explore ancestral healing, childhood and past life trauma with informative and inspiring thoughts, talks, guests and experts. The topics are about accessing hidden dynamics and family secrets with family constellations in the method of Bert Hellinger and related soul healing modalities to bring more happiness and freedom into one's life and the life of the loved ones. Get ready for a ride deep down into family systems and systemic c ...
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Illuminating the unseen impacts of adoption — for all who’ve been touched by it. The Resilience Project Podcast brings voice, visibility, and validation to the parts of adoption society rarely names - but all of us feel. Through a trauma-informed somatic lens, host Julie Brumley explores the lived experiences of the entire adoption constellation, with a tender emphasis on the adoptee experience. This podcast goes beyond storytelling into soul-telling. It offers embodied insight, compassionat ...
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Constellation Conversations: Adoption, Adoptee Voices, and Trauma-Informed Care
Sarah Harper and Brenda Chapel
Adoption is complex, and understanding its impact begins with centering adoptee voices. Join Sarah Harper, a trauma therapist and adoptee, and Brenda Chapel, an open-adoption adoptive parent, as they explore adoption’s nuances with guests from across the adoption constellation—including adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, and professionals. Together, they facilitate meaningful conversations that uncover adoption truths, promote trauma-informed care, and inspire a more compassionate an ...
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260. Nikole "Koko" Shaw: "The Black AdopTea and the BADAN Community"
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1:00:31Koko is a same-race Black adoptee with 15 years of experience in community behavioral health. She holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Professional Clinical Counselor. A mother and a healer, Koko brings a trauma-informed, liberation-focused lens to her work with individuals and communities impacted by adoption. Her …
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Episode 508 - Advent—A Mountain of Hope with Sandra Flach
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30:30"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and throwninto the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." -Mark 11:22-23 Welcome to The Adoption & Fo…
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Book Club: The Baby Thief with Heather Rodriguez
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41:17This National Adoption Month Book Club episode dives into the shocking true story of Georgia Tann, a once-celebrated American adoption pioneer who was, in fact, a baby trafficker. This book, written by Journalist Barbara Raymond, who uncovered this dark history, shares how Tann’s legacy continues to influence adoption laws and practices. We discuss…
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The Power of Vulnerability: Navigating Shame and Guilt
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16:05Here are the pdfs of what I shared in the podcast Acrostics and Limiting Beliefs -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vwJSRMzBb67gq9vk1cJ3V5YVr8nJ4C8p/view?usp=sharing Shame Resilience & Critical Awareness -https://drive.google.com/file/d/14zFIqEz0YsGS0S87hhDSOu7eKrY0YClj/view?usp=sharing Summary In this episode of The Resilience Project, Julie Brumle…
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259. Garrett Lee: "Mixed Emotions After The Search"
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43:48Garrett Lee is a same race domestic adoptee residing in Orlando, FL. He is in reunion with DNA family members and the journey continues putting the pieces together about his relinquishment/adoption story. Website: https://www.oldskoolcakes.com/ Music by Corey Quinn
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Episode 507 - Gratitude and Grief with Sandra Flach
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48:39"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. On this Thanksgiving week episod…
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Book Club: All You Can Ever Know with Anna Lehnardt
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35:02In this special book club episode, we’re joined by adoptee Anna Lehnardt to discuss All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung—a powerful memoir about transracial adoption, identity, and the search for belonging. We explore themes of race, family, and truth as Nicole retraces her roots and confronts the myths she was told about her adoption. Anna offers…
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Can Trauma Be Inherited? The Science Behind Generational Wounds
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15:04In this episode, we’re exploring a powerful and fascinating question: Can trauma be inherited? This isn’t just a philosophical or therapeutic idea anymore. Over the last 20 years, science — from epigenetics to neuroscience to trauma studies — has begun to uncover mechanisms that show how pain, stress, and even resilience can travel across generatio…
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Loss - The First Landscape Adoptees Walk Through
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23:16Summary: This episode of the Resilience Project delves into the complex topic of loss, particularly from the perspective of adoptees. Julie Brumley explores three distinct types of loss: ambiguous, vicarious, and secondary, and discusses how these losses are deeply embedded in the lives of adoptees from birth. The episode aims to increase awareness…
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Vlog 22: ADOPTION MATTERS: Real People, Real Life, Real Talk with Guest, Simon Benn
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37:14Join co-hosts, adoption coaches, and triad members Kim Noeth, Sally Ankerfelt and Sharon Butler Obazee, as they welcome this month's special guest, adult adoptee and adoption coach, Simon Benn. Mr. Benn is also the driving force behind the "Thriving Adoptees Podcast." A warm, delightful United Kingdom native, he's an informative guest with helpful …
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Janeen Jackson is an adoptee, children's book author, and powerful advocate for adult adoptees—especially those who discover the truth about their adoption later in life. Through her blog Mixed Up Diary and her book Hello, Sweet Baby!, Janeen creates space for honest conversations about identity, race, and healing. Her mission is to provide comfort…
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Episode 506 - Observing National Adoption Month with Justin Myers
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59:10"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." -1 Peter 2:9 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through ad…
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Statistics that will blow your mind and why identity is different for adoptees
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11:24Summary In this episode of the Resilience Project podcast, host Julie Brumley, a trauma-informed adoptee coach and somatic healing guide, explores the complex topic of identity for adoptees. She shares statistics on adoptee mental health and suicide rates, discusses the challenges of identity formation due to early life disruptions, and offers a ne…
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257. Eric Shaw: "The BAM, BADAN and Life Coaching"
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50:42Eric Shaw in Southern California is an educator (Elementary School PE and High School basketball coach), adopted at birth by same race and adopted siblings with Koko, @TheBlackAdoptea on IG. Resource: https://adoptionmosaic.com/adoptee-beacon Music by Corey Quinn
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Episode 505 - Understanding Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction with Dr. Jerrod Brown
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43:46"Do you not know that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; You were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies." -Corinthians 6:19-20 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in c…
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Uncovering the Skeletons: A Journey to Self-Belonging
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22:14Keywords adoption, trauma, resilience, self-discovery, healing, interdependence, primal trauma, self-worth, emotional health, somatic healing Summary In this episode of the Resilience Project podcast, Julie Brumley shares her journey as a trauma-informed adoptee coach and somatic healing guide. She discusses the importance of confronting past traum…
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Episode 504 - Educating Children and Teens with Trauma & FASD with Shannon Iacobacci
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1:13:41"And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." -Deuteronomy 6:6-7 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you…
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256. Kevin Hodge-Niblack Barnett Sr.: "Living My Shadows" and "Shadows of Emotions"
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44:34Kevin Hodge-Niblack Barnett Sr. is a retired Army veteran and a product of the foster care/adoption system. He is the author of two books: Living My Shadows: Dreams Do Come True and Shadows of Emotion: Life After the Dream, which outline his experiences as an adoptee and person who lived in foster care. Website: https://www.livingmyshadows.org/ Res…
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keywords adoption, healing, trauma, truth, society, modalities, adoptees, experience, God, understanding summary In this conversation, Julie Brumley discusses the challenges of speaking one's truth in a society that often misunderstands the experiences of adoptees. She emphasizes the importance of healing modalities that can help adoptees process a…
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Website Instagram: @juliebrumley_ Facebook: julierasbrum TikTok: @juliebrumley_ Click to Join My Free Adoptee Facebook Group You Tube: @julie_brumleyBy Julie Brumley
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The Surprising Superpower You Discover in Your Messiest Year Abroad
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14:00The Surprising Superpower Hidden in Your Messiest Year Abroad Your first year abroad is rarely the cinematic montage you imagined. It’s a glorious, chaotic storm—wrong buses, awkward hand gestures, and meals that turn out nothing like you expected. From the outside, it looks like adventure. From the inside, it feels like survival. And yet, in that …
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Unexpected Rules for Navigating a New Food Culture
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13:34Unexpected Rules for Navigating a New Food Culture Stepping into a new country is a thrill—but stepping into its food scene can feel like another world. For many who move to places like China, the mix of sizzling woks, bold aromas, and unreadable menus brings both excitement and paralysis. You crave adventure… yet dream of a simple cheese sandwich.…
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Jasmin, a New York adoptee, host of the Once an Orphan podcast kept the story of her adoption to herself until she was in her 30’s. Today, she’ll talk about why the silence for so long and what finally brought about the change. https://www.youtube.com/@OnceanOrphan https://www.blackadopteesmeetup.org/ Recommended Resource: https://events.adoptionmo…
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Episode 503 - Supporting Everyone in the Adoption and Foster Care Constellation with Jeanette Yoffe
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1:14:34For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow. For when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything." -James 1:3-4 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster …
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254. Katie: "Further Along the Healing Journey"
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48:13Katie is an adoptee who has always known she was adopted. Abuse and neglect by adoptive parents growing up led her to feeling unloved or unwanted by them. As a younger person, Katie felt so broken and joined Al-Anon and (ACA) Adult Children of Alcoholics for healing. She still felt like something was missing in her recovery. A friend gave Katie the…
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Episode 502 - Trust-Based Parenting with Adoptive Mom, April Ficklin
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1:18:44“The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LROD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came…
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Representation Matters with Allison Olson
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28:35In this episode, Allison Olson, an adoptee and adoptive parent, returns to the podcast, sharing her unique perspective from two sides of the adoption journey. She discusses her upcoming children’s books, which aim to offer authentic and balanced narratives for adoptees—especially those in LGBTQ+ families. Our conversation explores the representatio…
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An Interview with Special Guest Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, a pioneer in adoption understanding
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26:29Join co-hosts, adoption coaches, and triad members Kim Noeth, Sally Ankerfelt and Sharon Butler Obazee, as they welcome this month's special guest, adopted person and author, Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao. A warm, delightful guest with great insight into adoption from her own personal experience as well as many years of professional practice. Dr. Pavao s…
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253. Jennifer Hiltebeitel: "A Book for Adoptees and Those Who Love Them; Journey of The Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness"
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59:44Jennifer Hiltebeitel (HILL-ta-bite-el) is a returning guest. Jennifer is an adopted person on a lifelong healing journey. As an Enneagram Coach, she loves talking with other adoptees about how this tool for growth builds understanding and compassion for our whole selves. She believes healing happens in community and through the telling of our stori…
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Episode 501 - Attachment from a Neuroscience Lens with Dr. Jerrod Brown
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1:11:32“And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” -Isaiah 51:11 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoptio…
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252. Katie: "Taking Agency and Setting Boundaries"
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Episode 500 - Episode 500!!! High Highs & Low Lows with Sandra Flach
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47:04By Sandra Flach
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251. Debbie Nahid: "Adult Adoptee Movement UK"
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44:30Debbie Nahid is a transracial intercountry adoptee born in 1968 in the UK. She was raised in foster care in a white English community and was adopted as a teenager by her foster mother. It was at this time that she also discovered the truth about her parents and heritage. Debbie has spent her life searching for birth relatives and cultural connecti…
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Broken Adoptions, Bold Advocacy with Dawn J. Post
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47:00In this episode with Dawn J. Post, a New York City–based children’s rights attorney, we talk about her work addressing critical issues within the adoption system—particularly broken adoptions and the warehousing of children in unregulated facilities. Dawn shares about the tragedy that inspired her to become an advocate for youth and how that led to…
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Episode 499 - FASD Conversations with Adoptive Mom, Julia Rivera
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59:33"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:10 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. It’s September—International F…
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250. Linda Pevac/Emma Stevens: "Choosing To Breathe"
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48:20Linda Pevac (aka Emma Stevens) is a returning guest. Linda is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived layers of trauma that have put her on multiple journeys. She developed the inner strength and courage to surmount the many struggles she faced. Her traumas were born from being an adoptee who struggled with being forced to wear an impos…
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Episode 498 - Let’s Talk FASD with Adult Adoptee Emily Twomey
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45:02"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." -Ephesians 2:10 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. It’s September—International …
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Vlog 20 ADOPTION MATTERS: Real People, Real Life, Real Talk with Guest Jean Kelly Widner
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22:13Join co-hosts, adoption coaches, and triad members Kim Noeth, Sally Ankerfelt and Sharon Butler Obazee, for another poignant and informative discussion with this month's special guest, adopted person and author, Jean Kelly Widner. Jean shares her own personal story with your hosts as a well loved, mostly happy adoptee growing up in the small town o…
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249. Solo: "Transitions; Summer to Autumn"
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22:44This solo episode embodies the anticipation of Autumn. https://adoptee-voices.com/ Music by Corey Quinn
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Episode 497 - FASD Advocacy with Adoptive Mom, Michelle Trager
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1:50:38"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." -Jeremiah 1:5 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. It’s September—International …
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The Power of Support with Janelle Basham, Executive Director of Brave Love
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48:03In this episode, we sit down with Janelle Basham, Executive Director of BraveLove. Janelle shares her personal journey as a birth mother, beginning at age 17 and leading to her current role with BraveLove. She reflects on the evolving identity of birth mothers, the importance of community and therapy, and the need for greater empathy and support in…
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248. Emma Stevens: "Linda Pevac aka Emma Stevens"
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35:29Original air date: April 5, 2022 Emma Stevens is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived layers of trauma that have put her on multiple journeys. She developed the inner strength and courage to surmount the many struggles she faced. Her traumas were born from being an adoptee who struggled with being forced to wear an impossible mask of…
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Episode 496 - FASD from a Neuroscience Lens with Dr. Jerrod Brown
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1:02:16"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight." -Proverbs 9:10 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. It’s September—International FASD Awareness Month! All month lo…
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247. Astrid Castro and Nomi Kaie: "Building and Collaborating In Our Community"
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1:07:36Astrid Castro, founder and CEO of Adoption Mosaic—an adoptee-led, BIPOC woman-founded nonprofit—has dedicated over three decades to serving the adoption constellation through innovative, adoptee-centered programs, events, courses, and consultations. Adopted from Colombia at the age of four (along with her older sister), Astrid’s life's work and int…
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Episode 495 - Embracing Hope—Parenting Neurodiverse Teens with Carl Young & Joel Sheagren
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1:29:51"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." -Galatians 5:22-23 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care…
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246. Greta Handgis (Fadness): "Looking For Me In All The Right Places"
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1:09:39Greta Handgis (Fadness) is a domestic same-race adoptee adopted through Lutheran Welfare Services in a closed adoption in 1968. She was relinquished immediately at birth and spent no time with her teenage biological mother. After a month in foster care, she was adopted. She was raised in a family with a younger sister, who was also adopted, and an …
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Episode 494 - Fear to Love Parenting with Adult Adoptee Bryan Post
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1:02:36"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because He first loved us.” -John 4:18-19 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster …
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Episode 19 ADOPTION MATTERS: Real People, Real Life, Real Talk with Guest Sharon McNamara, Ed. D.,
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24:18Join co-hosts, adoption coaches, and triad members Kim Noeth, Sally Ankerfelt and Sharon Butler Obazee, for a poignant and informative discussion with this month's special guest, adoptee and developmental psychologist, Sharon McNamara. Sharon shares her own personal story as well as her work with members of the adoption constellation. Adopted peopl…
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245. Danielle Orr: "I Wanted To Heal My Heart"
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53:14Original air date: August 16, 2022 Danielle Orr is a writer, painter and animal lover. She is currently working on her memoir. Music by Corey Quinn
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Episode 493 - Not Forgotten, with Adoptive Mom, Wendi Cross
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55:50“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.” -Ephesians 3:20 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. On this episode, host Sandra Fla…
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