Tips from Julie Bickerton on opening the throat chakra - often blocked in adoptees
Improving adoptee wellbeing by sharing experiences, hosting meet-ups and campaigning for more support!
Relationships, adoption and me: guest blog from Gilli Bruce
Guest blog from Gilli on how adoptee trauma affected her friendships and romantic relationships…
Finding my voice through adoption blogging
This was the year I shed my anonymity in a pretty huge way with a Grazia interview, AdopteesOn podcast and speech for One Adoption.
Why are you so angry? Part two
A confession... I wasn’t telling the whole truth in my blog post about angry adoptees…
Alone - a guest blog by transracial adoptee, Debbie Nahid
Honoured to feature a small part of Debbie’s journey, it’s an epic tale from a courageous soul…
What the AdopteesOn podcast has meant to me
In celebration of my interview with AdopteesOn, here are the episodes that had the most impact on me from 2017 to today…
Long Lost Family's response to my open letter
I said the programme was “a source of frustration and bewilderment,” and the producers of the show replied! Here’s what they had to say…
I Grew Up White - guest blog from This Adoptee Life
Amanda Medina talks about growing up in Sweden as a Colombian adoptee…
Finding the pieces - an adoptee's journey to feeling whole
Guest blog from Gilli Bruce about building a sense of self as an adoptee
I am your daughter
Guest blog from fellow adoptee Lara Leon about her search for her birth father in 2019…
Meet Twayna Mayne: comedian, black woman and transracial adoptee
Introducing the host of podcast Loco Parentis and the talent behind Radio 4 series Black Woman.
Born into a bubble of love?
Does the emotional environment around a child’s birth matter?
Play about adoption reunion coming to London this March
I’m looking forward to seeing new play Giving Up Marty - tickets on sale now…
7 reasons I love Anne Heffron
I’ll admit I’m a fangirl and I don’t care! Thank you Anne for challenging us to grow, heal and find our voices…
How I helped my friend Tim find the missing link to his birth mother - at the age of 76
The story behind one adopted man’s quest to find out what became of the woman who gave birth to him, then set sail for Canada in the 1940s…
Children belong with their family of origin. Discuss.
A brief introduction to family preservation
To my biological father’s wife
AdopteesOn podcast made me realise I overlooked you in the reunion ‘honeymoon’…
I asked my mother when she met me
I was in my mid-30s when I plucked up the courage to ask my mum when she first met me…
I am not your shame
Enough is enough. Adoption will not take my dignity. You will not take my dignity.
I was in Grazia magazine talking about being adopted and having post-natal depression
We are only truly alive if we are able to be honest - paraphrased from Anne Heffron