The Adoption Files

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.
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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.

Please join me and Dani Joy as we continue our conversation about the intersection of spiritual trauma and adoption. We are talking trauma, just nonstop, processing! It's so fun. Come have fun with us! We are using the book Holy Hurt; Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing as a scaffold for our conversations.
Dani can be found at: https://medium.com/@danijoy
I can be found here, pretty much.
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
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Please join me and Dani Joy as we continue to address spiritual trauma from our lived experience as a mother of loss to adoption and as a late discovery adopted person.
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, therapist, or an adoption professional.
Thank you for listening!

Please join me for my conversation with Jean Kelly Widner, a domestically adopted person who is the author of The Adoption Paradox: Putting Adoption in Perspective. Jean is a Baby Scoop Era adopted person from Washington who has found herself as an Accidental Tourist in the paradox that is living adopted.
https://adoptionparadox.com/
Mentioned in the episode:
https://boothcampus.salvationarmy.org/booth_campus/booth-records/
https://doh.wa.gov/licenses-permits-and-certificates/vital-records/adoptions/original-birth-certificate-adopted-person
https://adopteerightslaw.com/truth/
https://savingoursistersadoption.org/
https://thefamilypreservationproject.com/
https://www.relinquishedbook.com/
https://www.thegirlswhowentaway.com/
https://onadoption.net/
The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, our opinions.
The host is not a therapist, a lawyer, or an adoption professional.
Thank you for listening!