Within Me: Processing Adoption-Related Trauma
It’s important to tell the truth about what we have endured in our families so that those cycles can end with us.
It’s important to tell the truth about what we have endured in our families so that those cycles can end with us.
The same panic, worry, and fear that coils down the spines of parents as their newborn child is placed in their arms, is akin to what my sister has been carrying around for me, my entire life.
My body shook with all the effort it had taken to hold onto this small bag with a large cookie inside.
I don’t think many of us are prepared for how the death of a loved one can motivate others to shove us into the “spotlight” or banish us to the shadows.