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#SoS #SavingOurSisters #adoption #adoptiontrauma #coercion #legaltrafficking

My Adoption Reunion Story - Part 4: When a Late Discovery Adoptee Majors in the Art of Performing When an actor's rejection becomes more to bounce back from

#adoptionjourney #adoptionstory #adoptioncommunity #adoptionlove
#adoptionrocks #adoptionlife #adoptiontrauma / #adoptiondad #openadoption #adoptionadvocate #adoptionawareness #feelingsmatter #emotionaltruth
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Lisa McDonough (@astepoffstage) https://astepoffstage.substack.com/p/a-middle-and-high-school-confrontations?r=6bs897&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=solid

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#adoptionjourney #adoptionstory #adoptioncommunity #adoptionlove
#adoptionrocks #adoptionlife #adoptiontrauma / #adoptiondad #openadoption #adoptionadvocate #adoptionawareness #feelingsmatter #emotionaltruth

#adoptionjourney #adoptionstory #adoptioncommunity #adoptionlove #adoptiontrauma #adoptionadvocate #adoptionawareness

Lisa McDonough (@astepoffstage) Okay, here we go! https://astepoffstage.substack.com/p/learning-my-life-story-wasnt-mine

#adoptionjourney #adoptionstory #adoptioncommunity #adoptionlove #adoptiontrauma #adoptionadvocate #adoptionawareness

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Lisa McDonough (@astepoffstage) The thing left to do when there’s nothing is create https://astepoffstage.substack.com/p/my-adoption-reunion-story-part-1?r=6bs897&utm_medium=ios

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People always say “your mother loved you so much she gave you away so you could have a better life.” - so, yes what she did was out of love but what everyone else did was blackmail her into the only choice for her child to be okay was to give her child to them. #adoptiontrauma

as wife & mom (even tho took years YEARS 2find her), during that long search, met #birthmothers who taught me their #adoptiontrauma Never Ended bc never knew what happened to their baby.

in simple human decency, I knew I owed my 1st mom at least 2know whether her baby
was alive or dead.

The “best thing that ever happened to them” narrative is, imo, contributing to the silence of adopted and fostered people who are experiencing neglect and abuse by their substitute caregivers. #adoption #adopted #adoptiontrauma #cptsd #ptsd #abuse #neglect #mentalhealth

Adoption doesn’t just affect adoptees but our children and grandchildren too.

Read more in my daughter’s blog.

#generationaltrauma
#adoptiontrauma

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To International Adoptees and the People Who Love Them: You Are Not Alone - Beyond Words Psychological Services Resources for internationally adopted citizens and commentary on collective trauma.

To International Adoptees and the People Who Love Them: You Are Not Alone

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#adopteerights #internationaladoptionsupport #adopteecitizenship #adoptioneducation #adoptiontrauma #adopteevoices

People say “We just want a baby. It doesn’t matter how we get it” but it matters a lot to the human being ‘gotten’.
#adoptiontrauma

People say, your mother doesn’t want you to find her she gave you away for a reason. But so many mothers spend their lives hoping their child will one day want to know them and find them. They didn’t give their child away - they were blackmailed into leaving them. #adoptiontrauma

Who lies and says they’re doing it for your own good? Abusers. Because it puts them in control and lets them play god with your life.
#adoptiontrauma

My entire life was a lie and I’m still finding the truth…but it didn't have to be this way | My Adoption Journey People say adoption builds families but for many of us, it tears families apart.

“What I know now is that they didn’t care how it affected me. They didn’t care how much their lies affected me and eventually my children. They didn’t even see it as lying. They didn’t care that they were still lying and hiding information about me. #adoptiontrauma
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@LINALEADSWITHLOVE Holding space for children who have lost their mothers to adoption and for mothers who have lost their children to adoption.

lomggg Lina howdy yr #adoptiontrauma posts fr helped me & many others

holidays pile more pain onto first mothers & all the lost children

stay safe girl nmw job 1

yr mothers day meme I repost still helping others

(yup here slither out sealions thirsty for adoptee bingo)

You don’t solve women having their rights taken away by supporting the industry preying on women and taking their rights away. #womensrights #adoptiontrauma

Here. I'll go 1st.

When I first talked w my therapist about how #adoptiontrauma was 1st deepest wound I experienced, engraved into my brain, shaped my core fear of abandonment rejection ppl pleasing etc.

Their 1st reaction was Well a lot of ppl feel those things who were not adopted...

✨✨✨🔥🔥
FIRE!!&
#adoptiontrauma #fuckadoption

We Were Never Real | Substack I write to stay grounded in a world that doesn’t always make sense. Adoptee in reunion, mother, suicide survivor, clinical social worker, academic, and researcher exploring the landscapes of trauma, i...

Thrilled to see more #adoption content on #substack
Let's keep it going!
#adoptionawareness #adoptionlife #adoptiontrauma #adoptionjourney #adoptionstory#emotionaltruth #rawandreal #vulnerablewriting
We Were Never Real
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BASTARDS Adoption and the manufacture of identity

I'm currently reading Dr. Barbara Sumner's content on #substack, and her research is pretty mind-blowing as someone who does a lot of research on the topic themselves.
#adoptiontrauma #adoptionawareness

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#trauma #traumabonding with my #viewers #teenpregnancy #adoption #adoptiontrauma

In most situations someone saying they want a baby and are looking for how to get a baby would be a serious red flag, right? But for some reason this has not just become accepted as normal but is celebrated as beautiful. #makeitmakesense #adoptiontrauma

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#Adoptiontrauma must be added to the #DSM and included in the list of #ACEs.

Holidays Interrupted How reuniting with family made me start thinking about family time differently.

I'm starting to discover my voice in what I'm doing, and recording it :)
#substackwriter #substackreads #adoptionlife #adoptiontrauma #selfgrowth #mentalhealth

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#adoptiontrauma is real

I get that Loftwerks.

I worked many many years to accept my A Mom 4who she is, not who I wanted/needed her 2B. tbh (not proud of this but true) when my A Dad died all I could feel or think was It's not fair! Why did the nice parent die & I'm stuck w the mean parent?
#adoptiontrauma

So many adoptees in addition to adoption trauma also have religious trauma because so many were adopted into conservative high control religions.
#adoptiontrauma #religioustrauma

#adoptiontrauma is a fact. It increases with age, and it never goes away.
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Let us now pay homage to taboos: they guard the chief acts of the community -- birth, initiation rites, marriage, childrearing, burial against interference. They guard adoptive parents from natural parents, natural parents from adoptive parents, andvl natural parents from adoptees. They guard everybody from everybody. They enable us to live in armed citadels, safe from each other. They protect us from our deepest impulses, from that to which we are most naturally drawn. The violated taboo is programmed to avenge itself but should it fail, benevolent society takes over the punishment of the hapless offender. In my case, I didn't need society: I was doing a fine job on myself.

Thank you!
I am an #adoptee living with the lifelong pain of #adoptiontrauma, so I agree with you and glad you said this.