The Adoption Files

Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue our conversation about spiritual trauma and adoption. We are using the book Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing by Hillary L McBride, PhD as a scaffold for our conversation. We just started Chapter 5!
How do the roles of victim, villain and rescuer play out in your life? What do they have to do with spiritual trauma? With adoption? Let us know what you think after you join us for the episode.
Dani Joy can be found at: https://medium.com/@danijoy
She loves to hear from people!
https://hillarylmcbride.com/books/
https://mental-health-matters.org/2021/01/20/what-is-the-karpman-drama-triangle/
https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health
The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions,
The host is not a lawyer, a therapist or an adoption professional
Thank you for listening!

Please join Dani Joy and me as we continue to discuss spiritual trauma and adoption. I am a Late Discovery, Intercountry adopted person. Dani is a mother of loss to adoption.
Dani can be found at https://medium.com/@danijoy
https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/generational-trauma
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12220155/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6378493/
https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health
The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions
the host is not a lawyer, therapist, or an adoption professional
thank you for listening

Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue to explore spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hillary L McBride Phd as a scaffold for our discussion. How might these spiritual wounds relate to Dani's experience as a mother of loss to adoption? How has my being an adopted person been shaped by spiritual trauma? In this installment we talk about the return to the familiar, even when the familiar hurts.
Dani Joy is a mother of loss to adoption, a homesteader and blogger. She can be found at: https://medium.com/@danijoy
https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20355967
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24881-cptsd-complex-ptsd
https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health
The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions
The host is not a lawyer, a therapist or an adoption professional
Thank you for listening.

Please join Dani Joy and I as we discuss the section What we need from the beginning, from the book Holy Hurt by Hilary L McBride, PhD.
Dani is a mother of loss to adoption, as well as a homesteader, advocate and writer. Dani can be found at: https://medium.com/@danijoy
https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/
https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health
The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions.
The host is not a lawyer, a therapist or an adoption professional
Thank you for listening!

California Alliance For Adoptee Rights and Senator Wahab have a bill being heard in the Health Committee this Tuesday, 23 June 2026. They need you to call the members of the Health Committee to ask that they vote yes on the bill as it is written, without amendments.
Please follow the link to find a script and the phone numbers of the members of the Health Committee.
https://www.facebook.com/CAadopteerights/posts/pfbid034DfNoKF8Kd3KM7c5jHPbu7XEAKBGkhFMbmLAH2GTVTzBQLcbjkZsFadKhyvMaBgSl
If for some reason the link does not work, please go to California Alliance for Adoptee Rights and click on the featured post at the top of the page.
Thank you so much for your support.
The host is not a lawyer, a therapist or an adoption professional.
The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions.
Thank you for listening.