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  1. EPISODE 2

    502: Exploring the Full Range of Adoptee Emotions

    Early in my adoptive parenting days, when my kids were first becoming able to talk about their adoptedness and continuing through their adolescence, I was on alert for signs that adoption had hurt them. I’d been listening to adult adoptees and I knew that...

    38 min

  2. EPISODE 11

    Season 5: Best Advice of Adoption Experts + BONUS Feature

    It’s December of 2024, which means we're bringing you the 5th -- and last -- Best Of advice. The first part of this episode is our traditional season-closing digest of best advice from all Season 5 guests, and the last part is a special musical treat from...

    48 min

  3. EPISODE 501

    501: What We Get Wrong About Same-Race Adoption

    Welcome to Season 5 of Adoption: The Long View! This month's guest is someone I made a bad first impression on (in my own head, anyway) because of an assumption I made about her that turned out to be wrong. Adoptee and content creator Jennifer Dyan Ghost...

    42 min

  4. EPISODE 503

    503: A Deeper Look into Adoption and the Bible

    My new book Adoption Unfiltered, has three chapters in it devoted to religion and adoption, with my co-authors and I each researching and covering a chapter. Sara Easterly, an adoptee and a Christian, wrote about religion’s pain points for adoptees. Kelsey...

    43 min

  5. EPISODE 504

    504: 22 Years of Lessons Learned from Two Moms in One Open Adoption

    The moment you become a parent, time seems to stop and you can’t see beyond the sweet baby or toddler you have before you, looking up at you with those big eyes that say you are everything. Those days of full dependence on you feel like they may go on fore...

    48 min

  6. EPISODE 505

    505: The Many Facets of Adoptee Math

    We all know from 1st grade math that a half plus a half equals 1. But for adoptees, the math doesn’t always add up the way we think it will. At one time I thought that if I could just incorporate my children’s first families into ours, then Tessa and Re...

    38 min

  7. EPISODE 506

    506: More Facets of Adoption Math with Adoptee Torie DiMartile (Part 2)

    In this much anticipated episode, we resume our conversation with adoptee and adoption educator Torie DiMartile on adoption math that adoptees have to deal with, the worlds they must precariously straddle throughout their lives, the opposing emotions the...

    42 min

  8. EPISODE 507

    507: Robyn Gobbel on Dealing with Big Baffling Behaviors

    One of the myths of adoption is the now debunked “blank slate” theory that if you get your baby early enough, they won’t have experienced any trauma. And therefore, you won’t be raising a child with a trauma history, and you won’t be dealing with big,...

    53 min

  9. EPISODE 508

    508: How to Center the Adoptee as the Hero in Their Own Story

    In a previous episode of Adoption: The Long View (ep505), an adoptee noted that her parents are the center of their adoption story just as she is the center of hers. It’s no big duh that the parents of an adoptee and the adoptee themself experience the s...

    56 min

  10. EPISODE 509

    509: Supporting Your Adoptee Through the Adoptee Consciousness Model

    When our adoptees are young, we cannot anticipate how and when they will process their adoptedness someday as adults. Such processing may not even be on our radar. For adoptees, figuring out their identity with the added layer of adoption, requires extr...

    1h 5m

  11. EPISODE 510

    510: Not All Parts Get Adopted - Supporting Adoptees with Wholeness and Integration

    Have you ever noticed that -- much like Riley in Disney•Pixar's Inside Out series -- you have different parts? The Internal Family Systems (IFS) framework asserts that everybody consists of different parts. Our guest this month, Kathy Mackechney, LCSW, IFS...

    43 min
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