Adoptees On

Doug Umberger has spent hours and hours interviewing adoptees to find out how digital media has impacted their search and eventually their relationships with biological families. He shares his persona...

23 Maalis 20181h 4min

Paige Adams Strickland shares with us about the complexity of building relationships in the workplace as an adopted person. Many years into her career, Paige has a unique vantage point to give us an o...

16 Maalis 201851min

I want to invite you into a discussion about relationships with ourselves, through the lens of identity and race. April Dinwoodie shares her journey of growing up brown in a white family, navigating r...

9 Maalis 201857min

Caitríona Palmer's bestselling memoir, "An Affair with My Mother" captivated my heart immediately. It's an honour to bring her story to you. Caitríona shares what building a relationship with her moth...

2 Maalis 20181h 6min

I interview my husband Nick about what it's like to be married to an adopted person. He shares quite candidly about what it was like for him to walk through reunion with me TWICE! We also talk about w...

23 Helmi 201839min

Jeanette Yoffe, MFT shares about what inspired her to begin a support group for adoptees. We cover how to start your own group and best practices for peer-facilitated groups. If starting or joining a ...

16 Helmi 201828min

Jeanette Yoffe, MFT addresses the psychological and emotional impacts of growing up in foster care, including multiple placements and the layers these can add to adoption trauma. She helps us understa...

9 Helmi 201845min

Can we actually *heal* from adoption trauma or are we just building up a huge toolbox of coping strategies? My guests Pamela Cordano, MFT and Anne Heffron discuss creativity, why so many adoptees grav...

5 Tammi 20181h 25min