Adoptees On

Keith Sciarillo is a late discovery adoptee. His cousin accidentally told him he was adopted when Keith was 33 years old. No one would confirm this for Keith, so he went on to search and find out for ...

31 Mars 201740min

We talk with Katie Jae Naftzger, LICSW about what to do when you don't find answers at the end of your search. Katie shares about her trips back to Korea to search and her two moments of clarity durin...

24 Mars 201719min

Anne Heffron (author of You Don't Look Adopted) goes deep into all kinds of things in her story, including failures that she attributes to adoption trauma, things she's working on to find healing, wha...

17 Mars 201753min

We talk with Melissa K. Nicholson, LMSW about adoptee suicide (sometimes in a graphic manner and so please listen at your discretion). An incredibly important topic as adoptees are at a greater risk f...

10 Mars 201715min

Fellow adoptee and therapist, Lesli A. Johnson, MFT teaches us all about EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing by Dr. Francine Shapiro). We talk about what it is and Lesli explai...

24 Feb 201715min

An interview with John, an adoptee who accidentally discovered he was adopted at age 10. We unpack the strain this placed on his relationship with his adoptive parents and the trust issues this has ca...

17 Feb 20171h 2min

Pamela Cordano, MFT addresses the question that many adoptees struggle with, "Why Me?". Pam shares that it's a natural, yet painful question for us to struggle with. We talk about how we can work on h...

10 Feb 201718min

An interview with Kelley Baumgartner an adoptee who found her birthmother via a public social media poster search. You've likely seen her facebook post where she held up a poster with personal details...

3 Feb 201754min