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Inspiration and insights for adoptive parents and adoptees around the world. Interviews and conversations to bring light and hope to empower. Adopters, adoptees and adoption professionals sh...
What if we are whole despite all that's happened to us? How does connection help us heal? Listen in as Anna, Donna and I dive deep into two...
Unconditional Love. We only crave it because we don't feel it. Trauma gets in the way. Listen in as Jay, adopted from Costa Rica at 3 shares...
What is Fundamental Wholeness? How does seeing it transform our lives for the better? Listen in as my friend and past guest Jude Hung interv...
Our grounding is the base from which we connect with others and allow them to feel safe and secure. Listen in as Judith and I explore self a...
What if the tough stuff happens to help us to our most profound learnings? Doesn't that change our minds about what we are going through? Li...
What is family? It seems a simple enough question. And yet...listen in as we explore a broader answer with birth mother Janelle and her birt...
We don't know what we don't know. That's why other people's perspectives can help shift our perspective. Listen in as Teresa talks about ope...
Don't we all want to feel we belong? It's so painful when we don't. Listen in as Jyotika shares insights on belonging, origin stories and mo...
How would your life be if you find joy whatever your circumstances? Joy, and even contentment, were completely alien to Doris growing up. Sh...
When things get tough raising your kids, what do you do? Listen in as Barb, Clinical Social Worker and adoptive mother to 3, shares her take...
Would you like to be triggered less? More resilient when you are triggered? Listen in as Jenn and I dive deep into resilience for insights o...
It's a trap we all fall into. Thinking that others will change. Waiting for others to change. But we have to change first. Listen in as Merc...
Born in India, Kirti Pickard was abandoned as a baby and spent her three and a half years in an orphanage. She was adopted at four. She is t...
What if discovering and sharing our uniqueness drives our thriving? How does that help us tough times. Chris is dad to 10 including 7 throug...
What would it do for you to find your superpower? What if your difference IS your superpower? Listen in as adoptee Wes dives into difference...
Handling tough emotions is human's biggest challenge. And it's particularly tough for adoptees and adoptive parents given the complex emotio...
Hope. The hope that the past doesn't determine the future. A positive outlook. Life as an adoptive parent and as an adoptee can be tough. Wh...
The Altman family was formed by a unique set of circumstances that no-one could have predicted. This episode is a little different to honour...
Raising kids - adopted or not - isn't a sprint. It's a journey. And the more we learn, the easier we can navigate the bumps along the way. L...
Is love with rules really love? Probably not. And yet so many of us have only felt conditional love. Having her first daughter taught adopte...
What matters more than loving ourselves? And yet...so many of us believe that voice in our heads that doesn't love us. Listen in as Melissa...
When we know better, we do better. Experienced adoption professional got a second chance at parenting after adopting her grandson when she w...
What if we could have a fabulous life, whatever our story? Thriving doesn't look like an option for some. But what if it is? Listen in as ad...
Finding our place - our home and our place in the world - is profound. Listen in as Matt who's fostered and adopted shares his learnings on...
Adoptees often start life at a disadvantage. How do we level the playing field so they can enjoy the same opportunities as others? Listen in...
Does the desire for validation hold us back? How do you react when you or your beliefs are challenged? Listen in as adoptee Angie talks abou...
Life can feel pretty scary. But what if we felt differently about that fear? What if faith felt bigger than that fear? Listen in as mother o...
What we resist persists. Especially our feelings. So what if we could be open to our feelings? Be openhearted. Ride life's emotional rollerc...
Raising adoptive children and teens is an art not a science. It's something you get a feel for. Listen in as adoptive father of 10 Dr Ray sh...
Shame is a big obstacle to our thriving. So how do we say goodbye to it? How is shame different to guilt? Listen in as Penny dives deep into...
How often do you realise that you're wrong? It's incredibly freeing. It's the ultimate lubricant for life. It reduces frustration and oils r...
Are we going to rise above trauma or to succumb to it? Perhaps one of the most profound questions we can ask. Listen in as foster/kinship pa...
Rejection can tear us apart. How do we put ourselves back together? Where does the strength come from? Where do we find the hope before we f...
Holding on to anger holds us back. It stops us thriving. And it yet we all do it to some extent. It's part of the human condition. Listen in...
Rumi once said “Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I wanted to change myself.” One of the most profo...
Hope is sometimes in short supply within adoptive families navigating tough stuff. Why is that? How can we overcome fear, choose hope and en...
How do we enable ourselves and others to thrive? Big question! Listen in as Damon shares what helps him thrive and empower his colleagues, f...
Raising adopted kids isn't about fixing them, it's about growing us. Doing Our Own Work is one of those themes that comes up again and again...
How open are you to learning? When we know more we do better. So lifelong learning isn't something to be shunned by our impatience, but welc...
Are you suffering right now? It probably - or definitely - doesn't feel like it, but finding the purpose in that pain somehow makes it more...
Tough stuff feels, well, tough. But with hindsight it becomes clear that the tough stuff prompts our biggest learnings. What if we could see...
If you're going through tough stuff, this one's for you. Truly inspirational. Adopted at 9 months Sharon grew up in an alternative universe....
If you're in hell keep going. But how? Listen in as Adoption Permanency Director Alaina dives into digging deep, what empowers us to persist...
Vince's mission is to add value to everyone he meets. Listen in and let him add value to you with his insights, learnings and wisdom. Vince...
If things are looking tough right now, here's some hope for you...According to one of my mentors - Richard Wilkins "The past is a place of r...
Secondary trauma can build up within us without us noticing. Even veteran therapist Bessel van der Kolk who's the author of the bestselling...
Are you advocating for your child or change? As every parent knows systems can be very tricky to navigate and change. The better we can unde...
Does fear hold you back? Fear of the unknown? Fear of things not working out? Sometimes life requires us to make a leap of faith. Listen in...
Can you open your heart more fully? Shamele has opened her heart to 4 kids through adoption, another through a special guardianship and over...
Change is hard. Until an insight happens. Whether that's about how we feel, what causes those feelings, our behaviour or anything else. So c...