Found with Trish and Sherri

When Christine and her husband Andrew became foster carers in 2019, they expected fostering to become Christine’s new job. Their very first placement was a four-year-old a child who had experienced extreme neglect, trauma, and two previous placement breakdowns.They initially agreed to care for him for only six months. Instead, he changed their lives.Christine shares how learning to recognize the unmet needs underneath trauma-related behavior transformed the way she and Andrew parented their son—and how six months of fostering became a four-and-a-half-year fight to keep him.In February 2024, he officially became their son through adoption.This is Christine’s story of foster care, trauma-informed parenting, perseverance, adoption, and becoming a family.Found with Trish & Sherri — Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityEverybody has a story.

What if one unexpected letter could reconnect you to a life you left behind?Alina was adopted from Romania with her twin sister at five years old and grew up in America carrying memories—and complicated feelings—about the life she left behind.Years later, a letter from Germany arrived that would change the direction of her story.In this episode of Found with Trish & Sherri, travel across the ocean with Alina as she explores adoption, family, reunion, memories, and what it means to reconnect with where your story began.Found with Trish & Sherri — Everybody has a story.Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityIf you have a related story you'd like to share, please send us an email at [email protected] and you could be part of an upcoming episode.Please Like & Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Sondra was adopted from Guatemala, but years later, a DNA test taken simply to see what other interesting genes might be hiding in her ancestry opened a much bigger door.In this episode, we talk about identity, international adoption, DNA, biological family searches, the complicated history surrounding adoption from Guatemala, and what happens when finding the truth doesn’t necessarily complete the story.Found with Trish and Sherri — Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityEveryone has a story.Email: [email protected]📖 Read our book: Found: Adopted Friends Search for Their Birth Families, available on Amazon.👍 Like this episode, subscribe to Found with Trish and Sherri, and turn on notifications so you don't miss our next conversation.

What happens when DNA changes everything you thought you knew about your family?This is a story about DNA discovery, family history, genetic genealogy, biological parents, generational cycles, unexpected relatives, and the search for the truth.Found with Trish & Sherri — Everybody has a story.Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityIf you have a related story you'd like to share, please send us an email at [email protected] and you could be part of an upcoming episode.Please Like & Subscribe so you never miss an episode.#DNA #DNATest #DNAResults #GeneticGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilySecrets #BiologicalFamily #BiologicalFather #BiologicalGrandfather #DNAJourney #FamilySearch #FamilyHistory #DNACommunity #UnexpectedDNA #FoundWithTrishAndSherri #AdopteeCommunity #BirthFamily #DNAStory

Emma was born on September 5, 1998, in Yugan, China. But much of what usually marks the beginning of a person's story is missing.At six months old, Emma was adopted by white parents and moved across the world to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.In this episode of Found with Trish & Sherri, Emma talks openly about international and transracial adoption, abandonment, growing up without biological family history, identity, race, belonging, and what it means to build a sense of self when the earliest pages of your own story are missing.This is Emma's story—in her own words.Found with Trish and Sherri — Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityEveryone has a story. 📩 Want to share your adoption, reunion, DNA discovery, or family-search story with us? Email: [email protected]📖 Read our book: Found: Adopted Friends Search for Their Birth Families, available on Amazon.👍 Like this episode, subscribe to Found with Trish and Sherri, and turn on notifications so you don't miss our next conversation.Found with Trish and Sherri explores stories of identity, adoption, family, belonging, DNA discoveries, birth families, foster care, donor conception, reunion, and the questions that connect us all.