Adoptees On

By: Haley Radke
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  • The podcast where adoptees discuss the adoption experience. This is not the usual adoption talk. You will find real, raw, and deep feelings addressed in these interviews. No sugar-coating here! Come and laugh, cry, learn and heal with us. Adult adoptees share stories of search, reunion, and secondary rejection. Adoptees On also curates recommended resources to encourage and educate the adoption community about adoptee issues.
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  • Kathy Mackechney, LCSW
    Dec 13 2024

    294 | Kathy Mackechney, LCSW

    We are doing a hybrid Healing Series episode with adoptee and adoptee therapist, Kathy Mackechney, LCSW. Kathy shares part of her story with us, including how she was prepared for rejection during her reunions, but was instead surprised by eager acceptance. Getting into the therapy of it all, Kathy is an Internal Family Systems practitioner and has developed the idea that not all of our parts get adopted. We unpack what that means, including that somewhere inside us we can access who we may have been, had we not been separated from our original families. Kathy is one of the first, if not the first, adoptee therapist(s) to have an entire chapter published in a clinical text that focuses on how to work with adoptees - it’s literally the chapter we should assign our therapists to read!

    Full Show Notes Here

    Join our adoptee community on Patreon here

    Check out our upcoming live events here!

    This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing stated on it, either by its hosts or any guests, is to be construed as psychological, medical or legal advice. Please seek out professionals in those fields if you need those services. The views expressed by the hosts of Adoptees On or any guests are their own and do not represent the opinions of any organization or other person unless otherwise stated.

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    54 mins
  • Dr. Julie Lopez
    Nov 29 2024

    293 | Dr. Julie Lopez

    This is a special episode in our healing series where I interview therapists who are also adoptees themselves, so they know from personal experience what it feels like to be an adoptee. Today I’m so pleased to welcome back Dr. Julie Lopez, author of Live Empowered! We are talking all about how labels can be highly problematic for adoptees. We discuss how nonsensical the term “reactive attachment disorder” is when in fact most of us are just having perfectly normal reactions to an abnormal situation. Dr. Julie is an expert in implicit memory continues to inspire us that change and growth is always achievable and how we can access our pre-verbal traumas.

    Full Show Notes Here

    Join our adoptee community on Patreon here

    Check out our upcoming live events here!

    This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing stated on it, either by its hosts or any guests, is to be construed as psychological, medical or legal advice. Please seek out professionals in those fields if you need those services. The views expressed by the hosts of Adoptees On or any guests are their own and do not represent the opinions of any organization or other person unless otherwise stated.

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    50 mins
  • Shelby Redfield Kilgore
    Nov 15 2024

    292 | Shelby Redfield Kilgore

    Shelby Redfield Kilgore is a Korean adoptee and filmmaker. You can watch her documentaries and videos on YouTube alongside 800,000 other folks who’ve already had the pleasure. We talk about Shelby’s passion for sharing adoptee stories and how that shifted in tone over the years. We also talk about her health struggles and the impacts those have had on her reunions and motherhood.

    Full Show Notes Here

    Join our adoptee community on Patreon here

    Check out our upcoming live events here!

    This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing stated on it, either by its hosts or any guests, is to be construed as psychological, medical or legal advice. Please seek out professionals in those fields if you need those services. The views expressed by the hosts of Adoptees On or any guests are their own and do not represent the opinions of any organization or other person unless otherwise stated.

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    59 mins

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How much is fiction, how much is actual history?

As an adoptee and atheist, I struggle with understanding how much is fiction and how much is actual history in regards to Christianity in general and adoption in Christianity.

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I'm new

Podcasts were recommended by my therapist. I chose the subject adoptees to listen to because I'm 47 years old, adopted as an infant, and am trying to FINALLY feel comfortable in my own skin. I don't know who I am because of adoption and abuse, but despite my adoption issues I LOOK LIKE an intelligent capable person. I hide my pain very well but I'm tired of doing "the act" I learned at a young age to appease my adopters who refused to acknowledge ANY feelings I had.

Anyways...I just want to say thank you for doing this and making these Podcasts available to help me. it just might save my life because I'm really struggling right now. Thank you ♡

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Thank you for not staying silent

Staying silent is what enables the system to continue the stigma of adoptees and this podcast tells the real stories of how adoptees are silenced and indoctrinated to serve at the whims of the adults around them.

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