Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive

One of the most important drivers of transracial adoptees' thriving is honoring their culture. Listen in as adoptive mom and adoption professional Elizabeth shares what she's learning about thriving raising her son who was adopted from South Korea.Find out more about Elizabeth here:https://hopeadoptionagency.org/https://www.facebook.com/hopeadoptionagencyhttps://www.instagram.com/hopecenteradoptionshttps://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.

What do you want? For others? For Yourself? Listen in as ex pilot, now non-profit leader Steve shares insights on persistence and relentless hyper focus. Powerful and empowering.Here's a bit about the Burke Center from their website.All children deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to flourish. Through therapeutic treatment, foster care, and adoption and reunification, our ultimate goal is to help children rebuild their lives in a manner that will break the cycle of abuse and give them the tools necessary to excel.Find out more https://burkecenterforyouth.org/https://www.facebook.com/burkecenterforyouth#https://www.instagram.com/bcfydriftwood/https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve4nier/ 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.

Loving kids with trauma takes a different sort of love, a muscular love. Listen in as Brian who leads a non profit supporting foster and foster/adoptive parents take on muscular love, connecting no matter what and more....Find out more about Brian at:https://fosteringhopefoundation.org/https://www.facebook.com/fosteringhopefoundation/https://www.instagram.com/fosteringhopefoundation/https://www.linkedin.com/company/fostering-hope-foundation/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bnewsome1/ 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.

Kit interviews me about my counterculture take on healing. Primordial Wholeness - what is it and how does it help adoptees? We dig deep and debate on whether we can / how to uncover our wholeness underneath our trauma.Kit Myers is an associate professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. He was previously a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Merced. His teaching interests include the study of race as a social, relational, and intersectional category of difference and power. His forthcoming book, The Violence of Love: Race, Adoption, and Family in the United States, with University of California Press (2024), uses interdisciplinary methods of archival, legal, and discursive analysis to argue that while adoption is imbued with love, violence is attached to adoption in complex ways. The book comparatively examines the transracial and transnational adoption of Asian, Black, and Native American children by White families to understand how race has been constructed relationally to mark certain homes, families, and nations as spaces of love, freedom, and better futures against others that not. Myers has also published journal articles in Adoption Quarterly, Critical Discourse Studies, Adoption & Culture, and Amerasia. He serves as on the executive committee for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego in ethnic studies and his B.S. in ethnic studies and journalism from the University of Oregon.https://www.linkedin.com/in/kit-myers-21463417/Here's where I interviewed him https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com/episodes/the-logic-mystery-of-healing-kit-myers 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.

They Don't Want Us To Heal...Leah's words stopped me dead in my tracks when we first spoke. Surely everybody wants the best for us all? Listen and make your own mind up...Leah Sutterlin serves as the Adoption Communication Manager for National Council For Adoption. Leah comes from a business and technology background and is passionate about writing and data-driven storytelling. She also brings lived experience as an adoptee from China and previous work experience with organizations like the Christian Alliance for Orphans and Help One Child in the foster care and adoption space.Leah earned a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband, Spencer, reside in the SF Bay Area in California and love traveling and experiencing new cultures.https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidson125/https://adoptioncouncil.org/https://www.facebook.com/AdoptionCouncil/https://www.instagram.com/adoptioncouncil/https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-council-for-adoption/ 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.