pallbearers
shared grief is palpable, a tangible weight in the room, and each of our hands are holding it up like pallbearers. gently, solemnly,...
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- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
silence of growth
the silence of growth. hold it gently in your hand, this multitude of growing souls. waiting waiting waiting can lead to breaking if you...
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- Dec 2, 2021
- 2 min
rebirth
this time last year. i didn't know how, if, i would make it. how the next year would play out. my darkest fears seemed to be...
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- Nov 29, 2021
- 5 min
The Primal Wound of Rejection
{I didn't realize until after I heard and met Jeanette at the 2021 NAAP Conference that years ago I had listened to her episode on...
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- Nov 29, 2021
- 4 min
Safety Instructions for Being There for a Woman Who Lost Her Only Child to Adoption - Guest Post
{In the decades before Roe v Wade, in an era prevailed, now called The Baby Scoop, where a majority percentage of unplanned pregnancies...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
What if We are More Than Our Story? - Guest Post
{I sat in Janet's workshop at the 2021 National Association of Adoptees and Parents Conference. These conferences, as much as they are...
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- Nov 7, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding Addiction in Adoptive Families - Guest Post
{When I think about aspects of adoption that are in need of awareness, one that comes to mind is the increased prevalence of addiction...
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 7 min
Not All Therapists Are Created Equal - Guest Post
{I met Brooke at the 2018 Indiana Adoptee Network Conference where she spoke on Brainspotting, and throughout the years since my husband...
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- Nov 2, 2021
- 4 min
Writing Through Trauma - Guest Post
{I knew leading up to NAAM that I wanted to address writing as a form of healing. I've frequently commented about my fascination with the...
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- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
ontological shock
Coming out of the fog, deconstruction, and ontological shock. Before I knew about deconstruction, I knew about what we call in...
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- Sep 25, 2021
- 2 min
reconstruction
part 2 (part 1 here) when your faith has been gutted, you have a few options. pendulum swing into the abyss. play pretend: revert to the...
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- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
deconstruction
in the early days of covid, i decided to talk with god on my walk, because i hadn't, and maybe i could just speak with transparency...
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- Sep 21, 2021
- 1 min
pretend
written 3/3/21 Wall sits are hard. And so is this changing weather. We spent the whole afternoon outside. Something we haven't done in...
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- Sep 21, 2021
- 1 min
she
written 3/31/21 i was afraid to go outside into nature we were so estranged that i had begun to objectify her as just something i used to...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 2 min
oh, me too
Some of my favorite voices are those who have went through recovery; I’ve always felt at home among them even having never been addicted...
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- Sep 16, 2021
- 2 min
momentary
There must be a hundred quotes about life being made up of small moments, and service and love and meaning being found in those small,...
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- Sep 16, 2021
- 2 min
bodyguard
Duncan Trussell once said that when you meet him, you’re meeting his bodyguard, and that has stuck with me. Couldn’t we visualize our...
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