The importance of INTEGRATION after a plant medicine journey
For adoptees ONLY: You are invited to this month's Medicine Circle for Adoptees, facilitated by transracial adoptee and sacred plant medicine expert Mee Ok Icaro on Sunday, August 25.
Thie Medicine Circle is most beneficial to adoptees who've already had a plant medicine (psychedelics) experience, or another type of transformative event such as breathwork, a retreat, or intensive therapy. At this Medicine Circle, Mee Ok will use her own unique style of Dr. Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry process to help attendees go even deeper with the insights they've gained through their previous experiences.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/medicine-circle-for-adotpees-only-with-mee-ok-icaro-tickets-965417047377
Transracial adoptees who would like to come but have limited funds should reach out to Beth or Mee Ok to inquire about a scholarship. Email [email protected].
What Are Medicine Circles?
In these special circles, we help foster the medicine inside all of us by finding deeper meanings in our experiences and how we might frame them in a way that empowers us, bringing us closer to the beauty of our true nature.
Why Join a Medicine Circle?
Deepen Your Healing: Build upon the transformative insights gained from our plant medicine work or other transformative experiences such as breathwork, EMDR, retreat, etc.
Community Connection: Forge deeper bonds with fellow members of our adoption community, offering and receiving support along our shared paths.
Continued Growth: Explore new insights and perspectives, evolving together as we navigate the complexities of adoption and identity.
This Medicine Circle is open adult adoptees ONLY.
Each Circle is 90 minutes long, starting at 3pm PST / 6pm EST.
Discover more about Mee Ok Icaro's work at Holdingcompassionate.space
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Refunds are only available up to 24 hours before the event with no exceptions.
Because of the nature of this group and the safe space that we are attempting to
No one likes to talk about su***de. But we believe it's imperative that we wake up to the increased risk for su***de by adopted people and birth mothers. This week's podcast episode features several authors from our new book Adoption and Suicidality.
This is a short clip by adoptive mom Terri Dreismeier (Theresa Ann Dreis) whose son Adam died by su***de last year. Hear the rest of the extra-long extra-special episode on your favorite podcast app, on YouTube, or here: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/32523277
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We're highlighting another important adoptee voice from our new book Adoption and Suicidality in this week's Unraveling Adoption podcast. Melissa Brunetti, host of Mind Your Own Karma-The Adoption Chronicles podcast and practitioner of Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery (SMGI), is one of the 17 contributors to the book.
She and several other authors speak out through our podcast episode about their relationship with suicidality and their "why" for participating in this book project. Hear the whole episode here: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/32523277
And buy the book (e-book, paperback, or audiobook) here: https://www.amazon.com/Adoption-Suicidality-Healthcare-Professionals-Unraveling/dp/B0DCBCTSLL
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Opening up the Conversation about Suicidality
Here's a clip from this week's Unraveling Adoption podcast episode featuring several contributors to our new book Adoption and Suicidality. Here, adoptee Bruce Porth talks about how important it is it to find brave spaces where we can all talk about taboo topics such as suicidality within the adoption community.
Hear the whole episode on your favorite podcast app, on YouTube, or here: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/32523277
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Our anthology, Adoption and Suicidality, comes out TOMORROW, August 12. Each day we've been highlighting our 14 contributors who wrote poems, essays, and letters from their own lived experience of adoption and suicidality.
Laura L. Engel Author is a birth mom who lost her son to adoption in the baby scoop era, and then lost him again to su***de 3 years ago, after they had been in a happy reunion for several years. This devastating loss is eloquently and devastatingly brought to light through the letter that's included in our book. Send Laura - and other parents like her who have lost a child to su***de - some love today!
The book will be available on August 12 through Amazon as an e-book, audiobook, and paperback book. Pick it up and share it with someone you know who needs to understand this intersection between adoption and su***de better.
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Today we're highlighting another of our 14 contributors to the book Adoption and Suicidality, which comes out on MONDAY, August 12.
Anessa Pfeifer-Gonzales is an adoptee from North Dakota who wrote a powerful short poem called "then ; now" for the book. She is finding her power after a lifetime of struggle, and she courageously shares her poem with the world to help others understand the disconnect that often happens for adoptees.
Pick up your copy on Amazon starting Monday. It'll be available as an e-book, audiobook, and paperback book.
Thanks to Anessa and the other 13 contributors who shared their lived experience with us all!
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Our new book Adoption and Suicidality launches on Monday. We're highlighting one of the 14 contributors each day, and today we're elevating the voice of Janell Strube, a biracial, transracial adoptee from Southern California. She was a guest on Unraveling Adoption podcast a few months ago (https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/28891298), and she's an amazing blogger and poet (https://janellstrube.com/). She wrote a powerful essay called "Su***de and a Three Year Old" for our new anthology. 🥺
Thank you, Janell, for courageously sharing your journey with us. It's important for us all to hear your story!
The book will be available on Monday through Amazon as an e-book, paperback book, and audiobook. Keep your eye out for the link on Monday!
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Contributor Highlight - Kylie Flynn
Today we're highlighting Kylie Flynn, one of our 14 contributors to the book Adoption and Suicidality, coming out on MONDAY, August 12.
Kylie is an Australian adoptee who has felt chronically suicidal since childhood. She contributed a poignant poem called "The Devil, My Father & Me" about the fight for her life.
Thanks to Kylie for sharing her deepest truths with us so we can all better understand the pain that many adoptees live with. The book will be available starting Monday on Amazon, as an e-book, audiobook, and paperback book.
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Today we're highlighting adoptee Jodi Gibson Moore, another of our 14 contributors to the upcoming book Adoption and Suicidality, due out on Monday, August 12. Jodi wrote a heart-breaking and compelling essay for the book, outlining the extreme abuse she experienced in her kinship adoptive family. She brings light to the often overlooked (or outright hidden) traumas that adoptees often face. Send her some compassion today! 💜
If you'd like to help get the word out about the book, join our book launch team by filling out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejxZfTucymocPU8_bmVApxDPS_pHj9nEFbul0KJzwkRznxtQ/viewform
Thanks to Jodi and all the other contributors, and thanks to all of you for helping bring light to this difficult topic of suicidality in adoption.
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I'm so grateful for adoptees like Bruce Porth who shared their deepest pain - and rays of hope - in our new anthology Adoption and Suicidality, due to come out on Monday, August 12.
Bruce is a leader with Adoption Knowledge Affiliates, and he inspires me to dig deeper every day. He is compassionate, vulnerable, and courageous, and I'm honored to have him on our team for this book. He recorded his poem for the audiobook, and you'll be able to hear him on our upcoming Unraveling Adoption podcast episode featuring several of the book's contributors, comint out this Monday.
It's not too late to join the book launch team if you want to help us spread the word about the book throughout the adoption community and beyond. Fill out this form to join the team: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejxZfTucymocPU8_bmVApxDPS_pHj9nEFbul0KJzwkRznxtQ/viewform
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We are so grateful that Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao - adoptee, therapist, and tireless advocate for over 50 years - wrote the Foreword to our book, Adoption and Suicidality (due out on August 12).
Image Description: "Contributor Highlight: Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao (Foreword); "I’ve read many books about adoption, but I get a very different feeling about this book. Suicidality is a painful and depressing subject matter, but it is Real, and it needs the light of day to expose it."" with a B&W photo of Dr. Joyce and the cover of the book Adoption and Suicidality.
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Today we're highlighting Greg Rostron, one of the 14 contributors to our new anthology, Adoption and Suicidality, which will be available for sale on August 12.
Greg is one of 2 Aussies in the book. His essay explains the roots of his suicidality, hospitalizations, what has helped, and what hasn't helped.
You might remember Greg from his episode on Unraveling Adoption podcast a year ago: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/27097293
Thanks, Greg, for sharing your heart and soul. I know you are committed to helping other adoptees by sharing your story. You are making a big difference!
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Today we're highlighting another of our 14 contributors to the book Adoption and Suicidality, Pamela Karanova (The Real Adoptea Moxie By Pamela A. Karanova). She's an adoptee who's transforming the pain she's experience from her maternal separation, adoption, suicidality, and addiction. Many of you know the power of her essays through her blog and Facebook presence. She wrote a beautiful essay for the book, which details her challenges and triumphs. Her darkest moments were transformed into the impetus to begin Adoptees Connect and other useful tools of connection for adoptees.
If you're an adoptee craving in-person connection, find her Adoptees Connect group at https://adopteesconnect.com/. If a group isn't available in your area, maybe you could start one?
Follow Pamela and learn from her wise words and lived experience.
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This is a short clip from this week's Unraveling Adoption podcast episode with adoptive mom Sara DeRoo along with her son Desmond, who was calling in from prison. In this clip, she beautifully demonstrates the unconditional love that is so necessary for helping our kids. "It's not about me!"
Hear the whole episode, including Desmond's important voice, on your favorite podcast app, on YouTube, or here: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/32309037
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Today we're highlighting Lorraine Dusky, one of the birth mothers who contributed a poem to our new book, Adoption and Suicidality, due out on August 12.
Dusky's poignant poem "The Lie" is included in this book. It's a poem she began writing in the late 1960s, and she decided it was important for the world to hear the finished poem now through this book.
Dusky has been a podcast guest and collaborator with Unraveling Adoption several different ways already. Here's her episode "Investigating Adoption's Fault Lines with Birth Mother Lorraine Dusky": https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/27854574
And have you read her beautiful memoir yet? It's called Hole in My Heart: Love and Loss in the Fault Lines of Adoption. https://www.amazon.com/Hole-My-Heart-Fault-Adoption-ebook/dp/B0BJYTZR6D
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Today we're highlighting the youngest of our 14 contributors to the book Adoption and Suicidality, which is coming out on August 12. (She chose the image of shattered glass as her avatar instead of using her photo.)
Etta is a teenage Black international adoptee, and she wrote a beautifully honest essay about what maternal separation feels like for her, and about the suicidal ideation she's experienced.
Etta's voice is so important for us to hear. Thank you, Etta, for courageously sharing your honest truth with us through this book!
If you'd like to join the book launch team to help spread the word about our upcoming book, fill out this simple form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejxZfTucymocPU8_bmVApxDPS_pHj9nEFbul0KJzwkRznxtQ/viewform
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Today I'd like to highlight another of our 14 contributors to the book Adoption and Suicidality, which is coming out on August 12.
Ridghaus is a late discovery adoptee, biodad, bereaved father, and leader in the adoption community. He's part of our Healing the Adoption Constellation Database (https://UnravelingAdoption.com/healing) as an IFS-trained coach and plant medicine guide.
He was a guest on our Unraveling Adoption podcast back on Episode 113: "Healing Adoption Trauma Through Alternative Therapies with Ridghaus" https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/28184255
His impactful poem called "1, 2, 3, Breathe," which is included in our book, will make you think about the next breath you take. Thanks, Ridg, for being part of this project!
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In this week's episode I chatted with Sara DeRoo, an adoptive mom + her young adult son Desmond DeRoo, who calls in from prison. In this part of the conversation, I chat with Sara about the systems that have failed Desmond.
What can we ALL do to better support the adopted and fostered children in our communities?
Here's the whole episode: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/32309037
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