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  • The Adoptee's Journey

  • From Loss and Trauma to Healing and Empowerment
  • By: Cameron Lee Small
  • Narrated by: Cameron Lee Small
  • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Adoptee's Journey

By: Cameron Lee Small
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Every adoption is rooted in loss.

Adoption is often framed by happy narratives, but the reality is that many adoptees struggle with unaddressed trauma and issues of identity and belonging. Adoptees often spend the majority of their youth without the language to explore the grief related to adoption or the permission to legitimize their conflicting emotions.

Adoptee and counselor Cameron Lee Small names the realities of the adoptee's journey, narrating his own and other adoptees' stories in all their complexity. He unpacks the history of how adoption has worked and names how the church influenced adoption practices with unintended negative impacts on adoptees' faith. Small's own tumultuous search for and reunion with his mother in Korea inspired him to help other adoptees navigate what it means to carry multiple stories. His adoptee-centered advocacy helps adoptees regain their agency and identity on a journey of integration and healing, with meaningful relationships in all their family systems.

©2024 Cameron Lee Small (P)2024 eChristian

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Outstanding book

I loved listening to the Audible version, as Cameron’s voice narrating his own memoir was just like listening to a good friend. I listened to it twice because I didn’t want to miss any part of it. I even purchased the printed version and a CD version to share with others who don’t have Audible. Even though written by a Christian therapist who shared his adoption journey, he did it all without being too much like a therapist or in-your-face like some in the adoption constellation have expressed on why they avoid Christian authors. I got teary-eyed just listening to the Acknowledgments and hearing how much he appreciated each one. Needless to say, this is one of my favorite adoption-related books.

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