Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland

Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
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Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland

Through an audio drama, episodes of thought-provoking conversations and bonus recordings, the listening audience can learn some of the issues that the adoption community face from the perspective of the adoptee.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    205. Sandra Caesar: "Further Along an International Adoptee's Journey"

    Sandi is an international adoptee from Panama, adopted by a Black US Air Force family stationed in Panama at the time. Most of her life has been in the midwest but she moved to Virginia in 2020. She is a social worker whose 30-year career has included time in mental health & child welfare. She has been in reunion with her first mother and maternal family since 2004. She's experienced some life-changing events since she was guest in 2022. Music by Corey Quinn

    1h 6m

  2. NOV 13 · BONUS

    204. Bonus: "Adoptees Aren't Their Trauma"

    Simon Benn is the host of https://www.thrivingadoptees.com/podcast Music by Corey Quinn

    16 min

  3. NOV 12

    203. Sandi Caesar: "Before Dual Citizenship as an International Adoptee"

    Original Air Date: 07/12/2022 Sandi C. is an international adoptee from Panama. Most of her life has been in the midwest but she returned to the DMV area about a year & a half ago. She is a social worker whose 30-year career has included time in mental health, adoption, and foster care. She has been in reunion with her birthmother and maternal family for 18 years. Music by Corey Quinn

    55 min

  4. NOV 5

    202. Julie Brumley: Part 2/2; "A Trauma-Informed Adoptee Coach"

    Julie Brumley is a trauma-informed adoptee coach who has been coaching men and women for more than 15 years to overcome addictive behaviors and heal the primal trauma of abandonment. She is also the CEO of Coming Home to Self, a company dedicated to helping adoptees heal. After her own birth mother tried to abort her twice, she found herself frozen in an unconscious trauma response for decades until she found the power of somatic trauma healing. Now she uses somatics, nervous system regulation, personal experience and her masters in counseling to help other adult adoptees find their way out of their own trauma and into a life of radical self-belonging. Website: https://cominghometoself.co/. Links: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theresilienceprojectforadoptees https://tinyurl.com/Rheti-Assessment https://www.instagram.com/juliebrumley_/ https://www.positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/ https://www.lightoasis.co/freehd

    55 min

  5. OCT 29

    201. Julie Brumley: Part 1/2; "A Trauma-Informed Adoptee Coach"

    Julie Brumley is a trauma-informed adoptee coach who has been coaching men and women for more than 15 years to overcome addictive behaviors and heal the primal trauma of abandonment. She is also the CEO of Coming Home to Self, a company dedicated to helping adoptees heal. After her own birth mother tried to abort her twice, she found herself frozen in an unconscious trauma response for decades until she found the power of somatic trauma healing. Now she uses somatics, nervous system regulation, personal experience and her masters in counseling to help other adult adoptees find their way out of their own trauma and into a life of radical self-belonging. Website: https://cominghometoself.co/. Links: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theresilienceprojectforadoptees https://tinyurl.com/Rheti-Assessment https://www.instagram.com/juliebrumley_/ Music by Corey Quinn

    51 min

  6. OCT 22

    200. Mavka: "An Imposter Among My Own People"

    Molly/Mavka is an early 80's Catholic Charities, closed, same-race adoptee. She has been in on-again-off-again reunion with her birth mother for 20 years, and is leisurely navigating reunion inklings with her birth father. Her adopters' choice to estrange themselves from her has offered an often-troubling-but-still-freeing expanse in which to explore her post-placement options, she guesses. In the interest of efficiency, her hobbies are her coping mechanisms and include pitch-black humor, elaborate culinary undertakings, surrendering to the wilderness with little more than a knife and a snack, and giving driving advice to her Instagram followers during her morning commute. Really, she doesn't know who she is, she only knows who she has failed to be for her adopters. Music by Corey Quinn

    51 min

  7. OCT 15

    199. Kim Stevens: "One of Two"

    Kim Stevens was adopted in Korea along with her bio brother into the same family. They were stationed in South Korea and immigrated to the US after their adoption. Kim was raised in Central Texas in a predominantly white community with few racial mirrors and even less cultural socializations. Being in that environment, she was taught to ignore the racism and micro-aggressions which caused her to deny a lot of her identity and curiosity until much later in life. Kim has two biracial children, a husband and a dog. Music by Corey Quinn

    1h 3m

  8. OCT 8

    198. Dana Ozak: "A Girl and Her Four Families"

    Dana Ozak  is a full-time preschool teacher, passionate adoptee advocate whenever she has time, part-time college student, part time water color artist, part time author, and whatever other free time she has is spent going on long walks with her sweet husband and hanging out with him and their college aged offspring. Website: https://girland4families.com/ Music by Corey Quinn

    40 min
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Through an audio drama, episodes of thought-provoking conversations and bonus recordings, the listening audience can learn some of the issues that the adoption community face from the perspective of the adoptee.

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  • Creator
    Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    200
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
  • Show Website
    Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland

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