20 episodes
Adopt Well Podcast Adopt Well
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4.9 • 132 Ratings
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Welcome to the Adopt Well Podcast! We are an educational community for anyone touched by adoption. Each episode exists to educate and encourage. We know that adopting well is a lifelong mission. It means learning from those around us - adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. We’re never going to be perfect and that’s ok. But, anything worth doing is worth doing well. No matter how you’re touched by adoption, we are glad you're here.
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Creating an Adoption Profile
Did you know that hopeful adoptive parents often overlook one of the most important parts of their adoption journey?
Hannah Eloge from Kindred + Co. sat down with us for thirty minutes to give us the low down on creating a profile book! We chat about why it’s important and what it should (and shouldn't) include.
If you’re in the process of adopting and getting ready to create an adoption profile book, this episode will be invaluable to you. Hannah offers a fresh perspective on the precious opportunity to connect with an expectant mother (and sometimes family) for the first time. She takes the guess work out of what your profile should communicate!
To learn more about Kindred + Co. and the beautiful profile books that Hannah helps create, visit kindredand.co. You can also follow her on Instagram at @kindredand.co & @heloge.
PS - for 30 days after this podcast is published, Hannah is giving you $100 off a template or full custom book by using code AWPOD.
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Instagram: @adoptwell
Email: podcast@adoptwell.com
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Macie’s Story
Pregnancy, miscarriage, secondary infertility, adoption - Macie Perreault, founder of Adopt Well, shares about all of the above as she reflects over the last nine years. Adoption is a journey, and while it looks different for us all, there is oftentimes comfort in knowing others have walked a similar path.
We hope you find courage and hope in Macie's story.
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Instagram: @adoptwell
Email: podcast@adoptwell.com
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Telling Your Child Their Story
As adoptive parents, we know the weight of sharing your kids story with them. There’s no handbook for it, and every story is different, every kid is different, so it makes it impossible to really plug it into an equation. In this episode, we share some findings from research and survey results from over 130 adoptees in the Adopt Well community.
We will answer questions around the topic of talking to your children about their adoption story and share advice from adult adoptees on how to do that well. As adoptive moms ourselves, we also give some specific examples on how we talk to our own young children about their adoption story.
We reference two previous episodes, here’s a quick link to both of those:
Season 1 Ep. 3: Navigating a Closed Adoption
Season 1 Ep. 6: Adoption and Christianity
Connect with us:
Instagram: @adoptwell
Email: podcast@adoptwell.com
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Adoption Informed Counseling: A conversation with Cameron Small
In this episode, we interviewed trauma informed, licensed clinical counselor, and transracial adoptee, Cameron Lee Small from Therapy Redeemed.
Among other things, Cam shares what a therapy journey looks like and how we as adoptive parents can support our children.
During the episode, you’ll hear about several helpful resources. Find more about them here:
Therapy Redeemed
Cam's online workshop
Therapist resources:
https://www.growbeyondwords.com/adoptee-therapist-directory/
https://www.mnadopt.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Adoption-Competent-Therapist-Traits.pdf
https://www.pactadopt.org/resources/resource-library.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/cameron-lee-small-minneapolis-mn/490129
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www.AdoptWell.com
@AdoptWell
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For Friends and Family
Do you wish you had a way to include your friends & family in your adoption education journey? Are there things you wish you could tell them, but you don't know how? This episode is for you!
We asked the Adopt Well Instagram community what they want their friends & family to know, and in this episode we share their responses.
This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but we hope you will find this episode helpful to share with your friends and family. Let this be the beginning of open lines of communication and ongoing education for you and your tribe!
You can find us on instagram at @adoptwell
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Creating Cultural Connections
Kiana Bosman was so kind to sit and share with us about her experience as an international & transracial adoptee. She was adopted from Haiti as a toddler and has maintained cultural connections to her home country.
We talked through practical ways that Kiana and her family have maintained a cultural connection to Haiti, all the way from Washington. From cooking Haitian meals to attending camps, and even making trips to Haiti.
She offers wisdom beyond her years for parents who have adopted transracially and internationally.
If this episode is helpful for you, we hope that you will subscribe and leave us an honest review!
Connect with us:
www.AdoptWell.com
@AdoptWell
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Customer Reviews
Looking to Adopt? Start here!
My husband and I just recently decided to start our journey with adoption, and these ladies have been a heartwarming and useful resource!
Perspective Adoptive Family
We are still early in our journey and having this podcast to use as education has been so helpful. Thank you ladies so much for all you do! Would love some new episodes to help make the wait more manageable.
Thank you for the connection!!
I’m an adoptive mom, two years into the journey. I so strongly identify with SO MUCH of what you share; several times I’ve been able to speak along with you because I’ve experienced the same feelings or emotions around something you’ve described. Although we’ve tried, unfortunately we have not found friends who are in this same experience. Thank you for filling some of that void for which I’ve been searching. You two are amazing!!