Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive

Simon Benn
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Let's thrive. Thriving Adoptees helps adoptees thrive. What does thriving mean to you? Healing? Post Traumatic Growth? Evolving? Listen in as we explore what's helped adoptees do all that... Email me at simon@thrivingadoptees.com if you'd like to have a chat about being a guest on the show. There have been 93,000 downloads of the show since launch in April 2021.

  1. 19h ago

    Leaning In With Audra Bullock

    Grief and joy. Intensely challenging and hugely rewarding. Adoption is complex. Listen in as adoptive mother and non profit leader Audra shares what she's learning leaning in.... Audra is the founder and CEO of The Friends of Foster Care. She holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Engineering from Old Dominion University and has worked as an Assistant Professor and NASA Mission Manager. Since becoming a foster parent in 2015, Audra has dedicated her professional life to supporting foster children and building programs that create long-term impact. Dr. Audra Bullock and her family became foster parents in 2015 when a three-year-old boy was placed in their home. His arrival changed their lives and transformed the way they viewed family. They fell in love with him immediately and made a lifelong commitment to support him, no matter where his foster care journey led. Recognizing that, without meaningful support, he was at risk of following the same path that had brought his family into the foster care system, Dr. Bullock and her family made it their mission to ensure that other children in foster care have the love, stability, and resources they need to thrive. Since then, they have adopted two wonderful children through foster care and remain deeply grateful for the life-changing experience of building their family through foster care. https://friendsoffostercare.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/audra-bullock-024704149/ https://www.facebook.com/thefriendsoffostercare https://www.instagram.com/thefriendsoffostercare Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    Leaning In With Audra Bullock

  2. 2d ago

    You Can Make It Through With R Marin

    Are you going through really tough stuff? Is life really beating you up? How on earth can you get through this? Listen as adoptee Roberto shares what has helped him.  Born in Italy and living in France, R. Marin writes under a pseudonym. His series transforms a true story into a novel in order to let the facts, gestures and silences speak for themselves. More at: https://www.amazon.com/Despite-All-Made-Through-Marin-ebook/dp/B0H2SJRKWY https://rmarin-officiel.netlify.app/ https://www.instagram.com/rmarin.officiel/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590623960975&locale=fr_FR     Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    You Can Make It Through With R Marin

  3. 5d ago

    Becoming With Jackie Kouhi

    Are you happy with who you are? Or working on becoming that person? Listen in as we dive into self-actualisation, Michelle Obama, trauma and more on this deep exploration of self, freedom and more... https://www.facebook.com/TriadFamilyServicesAgency https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackalene-kouhi-63920632/ https://www.triadfs.org Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    Becoming With Jackie Kouhi

  4. Aug 6

    Malleable With Karen Capson

    Are you waiting for someone else to change? We might be waiting for that forever. Because we have to change first. Listen in as adoptive mom and adoption professional Karen shares her insights into change, humility and grace. Here's a link to Karen and her daughter Madi's book This I Know For Sure More about Karen here: https://www.instagram.com/karen_capson/ https://legacyadoptiontexas.com/ https://dfwchild.com/karen-capson/ Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    Malleable With Karen Capson

  5. Aug 5

    Comfortably Unresolved With Andy Wullaert

    Is something that you've not resolved making you uncomfortable? Making you suffer? Our suffering lies in the gap between what we have - like resolution - and what we don't have. Listen in as adoptee Andy explores being ok with matters unresolved and much more. Here's a bit about Andy "I'm an adoptee who spent more than five decades wrestling with questions about identity, belonging, and what adoption ultimately means over the course of a lifetime. Like many adoptees, I believed that if I could somehow reconnect with my biological family, I'd finally understand who I was. Ironically, they found me. For years, I imagined that reunion would answer the biggest questions of my life. It didn't. What I found instead was something far more nuanced. They were kind people. Good people. I'm genuinely grateful to know them, and I believe they're good to their core. But they weren't my people, and they didn't hold the answers I thought they would. Ironically, the most meaningful part of the reunion wasn't discovering who they were. It was realizing they were never responsible for defining who I was in the first place. My mother was a psychotherapist who encouraged me throughout my life to examine each stage of that journey honestly and put language to what I was experiencing. That became one of the motivating forces behind writing my memoir, Blood = Water: The Search for Identity Beyond Biology.  I think many adoptees quietly wrestle with questions about biology, identity, expectations, forgiveness, and agency, but we don't always give ourselves permission to say those thoughts out loud. Find out about Andy's book here https://a.co/d/085HEgsk Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    Comfortably Unresolved With Andy Wullaert

  6. Aug 3

    True Grit With Nicole Fowler

    Adoption can be a wild ride that takes true grit. Listen in as adoptive mom and adoption professional Nicole shares some of her most powerful learnings on self compassion, grit and more... https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-fowler-3517b594/ https://www.facebook.com/AdoptionsFromTheHeart https://www.instagram.com/adoptionsfromtheheart https://afth.org/ Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    True Grit With Nicole Fowler

  7. Aug 1

    Love & Fear With Kaici Frieze

    Are we coming from love or fear? Perhaps one of the most profound things we can notice in any moment. Or in any relationship. Loving on our child's birth parents leads to better outcomes for all. Listen in as adoptee and adoption professional Kaici shares how she's empowering adoptive parents with her own learnings growing up. Find out more about Kaici here: https://www.facebook.com/kaici.frieze/ https://hopeadoptionagency.org/ https://www.facebook.com/hopeadoptionagency https://www.instagram.com/hopecenteradoptions https://www.linkedin.com/company/hope-center-adoptions/ Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    Love & Fear With Kaici Frieze

  8. Jul 31

    Lightening The Load With Joanne Alper

    How would a lighter load help you? Your kids? Listen in as adoption professional Joanne talks self care, helping kids carry less baggage and much more... Here's a bit about Joanne from her organisation's website "I have over 30 years' social work experience in both local authority and the independent sector, covering child protection, children's care and Adoption and Fostering. I have worked as team manager, service manager and service director and was instrumental in establishing Adoptionplus in 2002 first as an Adoption Support Agency and then in 2006 as a Voluntary Adoption Agency. I am a qualified social worker and play therapist and have had 9 books published, including the Billy Says series of 6 books; All About Mummies and Daddies; Assessing Adoptive and Foster Parents: Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity; and Supporting Birth Parents of Children who have been Adopted.  I have sat as a Trustee on the CVAA Board, a special adviser on the NICE committee for Quality Standards in Attachment and been invited to give evidence at a number of All Party Parliamentary Committees. Over the years it has been incredibly rewarding to play a leading role in developing Adoptionplus and to work with our talented team dedicated to improving the quality of life for so many children and families." Find out more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanne-alper-13267a42/ https://www.adoptionplus.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/adoptionplus https://www.facebook.com/Adoptionplus Guests and the host are not (unless mentioned) licensed pscyho-therapists and speak from their own opinion only. Seek qualified advice if you need help.

    Lightening The Load With Joanne Alper
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Let's thrive. Thriving Adoptees helps adoptees thrive. What does thriving mean to you? Healing? Post Traumatic Growth? Evolving? Listen in as we explore what's helped adoptees do all that... Email me at simon@thrivingadoptees.com if you'd like to have a chat about being a guest on the show. There have been 93,000 downloads of the show since launch in April 2021.

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