• Living in Adoptionland with Bryan Elliott

  • By: Bryan Elliott
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Living in Adoptionland with Bryan Elliott

By: Bryan Elliott
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  • Living in Adoptionland with Bryan Elliott is the podcast I wish I had before I started on my journey more than 25 years ago. It’s a mosaic of real stories from the adoption community which includes parents who gave up their children, families struggling with infertility and natural conception, and the often silent adult adoptees.

    Host Bryan Elliott decodes these experiences, combined with expert advice from medical professionals and published authors on the subject to help people cope and live healthier, happier lives.

    Visit our website for more information:
    https://www.livinginadoptionland.com/

    Executive Producer:
    Bryan Elliott
    https://thegoodbrain.com
    E: producer@thegoodbrain.com
    © 2024 Living in Adoptionland with Bryan Elliott
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  • Lesli Johnson MFT - Living in Adoptionland as an Adoptee Therapist

    Lesli Johnson MFT - Living in Adoptionland as an Adoptee Therapist
    Feb 6 2024
    Lesli Johnson MFT is as an adoptee therapist helping people in the adoption community to live healthier and happier lives.Want to find out more about Leslie? Visit: www.askadoption.comFrom Lesli's website: "I created Ask Adoption to provide a community for individuals and families created by foster care and adoption and for others who are curious about the adoptive experience. It’s a place I needed when I was growing up, and a resource my parents would have surely benefited from. Ask Adoption is a safe space to connect, learn and find answers to your questions. It’s a place to find comfort and validation. Ultimately it’s a place for healing. I’m committed to raising awareness around adoption issues, elevating the voice of adoptees and providing support and guidance, to adoptive parents, birth parents and families worldwide. I came “out of the fog” in my mid 20’s after spending most of my life believing that separation from my biology was not relevant to who I was or how I viewed the world. Adoption was just a word that meant I was “special” and birth parents were colorful characters (likely rock stars) created in the fantasy world I visited regularly. I spent many years in therapy, racked with anxiety but none of the therapists I worked with helped me connect my symptoms to the early loss I experienced. They didn’t think it was relevant because I was “lucky to have been adopted by wonderful parents.” While it is true I was adopted into a good family, it is also true that those early separations from my biological mother and then my foster family did matter. Fast forward to present day. I’ve connected the dots of my adoption story and understand that my feelings were normal and helped shape who I am. My personal experience led me to my profession working as a Licensed Therapist and Coach and Consultant, specializing in adoption and related issues. Fascinated by the brain as it relates to implicit memory and trauma, I became trained in EMDR and Brainspotting – two power therapies that have become pivotal in my work with clients. I write about adoption, I’m an invited speaker at adoption related conferences and most important, I work with individuals, couples and families just like you. Whether we meet in person, virtually or in a group, we’ll collaborate and transform your confusion, grief and anxiety into clarity, insight and resilience. Visit www.YourMindfulBrain.com to learn more about my work in private practice."AREAS OF EXPERTISE:AnxietyDepressionAdoptionBrainspottingEMDRRelationship challengesParentingTransitionsCrisis InterventionGrief, loss and trauma
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • J.T. Harding - No Wonder I Party Like a Rockstar! Finding Out My Dad is a Big Celebrity...

    J.T. Harding - No Wonder I Party Like a Rockstar! Finding Out My Dad is a Big Celebrity...
    Oct 3 2022
    How does an adoptee who grew up with an outrageous passion for rock-n-roll end up writing giant country hits? How does a guy who had no music-business connections whatsoever find his way to his dream of being on hit radio? Your attitude about your circumstances helps a whole lot. According to Harding, “Being adopted has given me an incredibly optimistic view of life. Whenever life throws me a curveball, a disappointment, or a roadblock, I remind myself that I was adopted by the Hardings (the greatest parents ever), and that the universe has had my back since day one.”J.T. HARDING was born and raised in South Detroit. While other kids were on the baseball field, J.T.was in his basement, jumping around to MTV videos and trying to write his own songs. He put together several bands in high school and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream. J.T. made his first demo tape with prize money he earned by winning the VH1 game show Rock & Roll Jeopardy! He has since written several chart-topping hits, including “Smile” with Uncle Kracker, “Somewhere in My Car” with Keith Urban, “Somewhere with You” and “Bar at the End of the World” for Kenny Chesney, Dierks Bentley’s “Different for Girls,” Jake Owen’s “Alone with You,” and Blake Shelton’s number-one song “Sangria.”J.T.'s new book, Party Like a Rockstar: The Crazy, Coincidental, Hard-Luck, and Harmonious Life of a Songwriter is available everywhere books are sold. Learn more at www.twelvebooks.com. Follow J.T. on social media @jtxrockstar on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and @jtxmusic on Facebook. To learn more and the “Write Like a Rockstar” contest, visit www.writelikearockstar.com.
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    54 mins
  • What It's Like Being an International Adoptee -- Moses Farrow

    What It's Like Being an International Adoptee -- Moses Farrow
    Sep 6 2022
    Moses Farrow is the international Korean born adopted son on Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. To say Moses' adoption, childhood and adult life has been complicated is a massive understatement. Forget about what you think you know about Moses and put any tabloid style commentary aside. In his own words, Moses said, "Adoption Trauma is a shared life-changing experience, or set of experiences, for all those involved with adoption. It’s important that we recognize and acknowledge the risk factors and causes of adoption trauma that makes this a crisis we all need to take action to end. This is why I have developed the Adoption Trauma Factsheet, which is free to download at https://transformadoption.com Education is key to creating a well-informed, trauma-informed society. This starts within homes, therapy offices, schools, hospitals, and all the places adopted people and their parents need to feel safe in and receive the most support, understanding and most of all, validation of the traumas they have experienced."About Moses Farrow: "Adopted people are a marginalized group who deserve their rights. It was a difficult decision after spending my entire career in the mental health field, but I knew it was a step forward to become an Adoption Trauma Educator. I helped many children and families working in community-based, intensive programs before pivoting completely to adoption. I spent two years leading a team in collaboration with the Department of Children and Families in Connecticut for their Intensive Family Preservation and Intense Safety Planning Programs. I was presented with the opportunity to work with an adoption agency, one of the oldest in the U.S. It was a chance to make a difference for others who had also been adopted like me. During my time there, I took a position as a board member for ATTACh.org, a national organization focused on the training and treatment in the attachment in children. It was an important step in my own personal and professional evolution. Since then, I have had to come to terms with my own truth. In 2020, I advocated for anti-racism with the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S., I spoke against the stigma towards mental health and have continued to raise awareness of the suicide crisis in the adopted population. I have made numerous appearances on podcasts and have been featured in the media in the U.S and across the world, sharing my own story of adoption to help raise awareness of adoption trauma. I began the social media movement #truthislouder and joined NAAPUnited.org as a board member. This perspective now informs the way I connect with and educate my clients, whether they are individuals embarking on their own adoption truth journeys, or their family members who want to learn how to best support their adopted family member, or other interested parties in their support system including schools, workplaces, businesses and organizations. I believe we all thrive when we live, grow and support each other in safe ways and in safe environments. And the way to create a sense of safety is by uncovering who we truly are. Learn more at mosesfarrow.com"
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    1 hr and 41 mins

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