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Adoption: The Long View Podcast
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If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, If I only knew then what I know now, Adoption: The Long View is the podcast you need to hear right now. Get invaluable insights about the all-encompassing journey of parenting an adopted person from people with lived experience in adoption. Make the most of your adoptive parenting journey and arrive at your destination in the healthiest, most connected and integrated way possible. Join host Lori Holden (The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole) as she explores Adoption: The Long View. Trailer below.
Recent Episodes
404: Guilt, Shame, and Boundaries in Adoption
One thing we know is that adoption comes out of a broken attachment, that the baby or child we parent has already lost something primal,
403: Why an Adoptee’s Truth Matters More than a Parent’s Comfort
Why are truth and trust so important in adoptive families? In all families, really? Isn’t it OK sometimes to keep some things under wraps, for
402: YES to Continuing Education for Adoptive Parenting & NO to Adoption Echo Chambers
Adoptive parenting has this in common with regular old parenting: just when you start to feel like you’ve mastered a stage, like babyhood, toddlerhood, tweenhood,
401: An Adoptee, Birth Mom, & Adoption Professional All in One
There are very few people who have the multi-perspectives and lived experience in adoption that Rebecca Ricardo has. Rebecca joined her family through adoption –
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102: Ashley Mitchell on the necessity for better adoption education for everyone involved.
103: Carolyn Savage tells her inconceivable story about pregnancy, adoption, and surrogacy.
107: How birth mom Clemencia Deleon developed emotional intelligence when her kinship adoption went all wrong.
110: Birth mom Kim Court and adoptive mom Linda Marie Mueller on the pioneer days of open adoption. Hint: Brené Brown.
204: Birth mom Candace Cahill on double loss, connection, and healing.
205: Adoptee Sara Easterly and birth mom Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard bust 5 myths adoptive parents still believe.
304: Janelle Ison, adoptee and birth mom on what adoptive parents need to know about the power they hold in adoption relationships.
401: Rebecca Ricardo, whose adoption resume includes adoptee (1960s), birth mom (1980s), adoption professional (1990s). Lots of insights here!
101: Leah Campbell on adoptive parenting and living in open adoption, even when it’s hard.
103: Carolyn Savage tells her inconceivable story about pregnancy, adoption, and surrogacy.
108: Improving adoption now with Family to Family Support Network’s Rebecca Vahle.
110: Birth mom Kim Court and adoptive mom Linda Marie Mueller on the pioneer days of open adoption. Hint: Brené Brown.
202: Adoptive parent group facilitators Katie Biron and Kara Andersen on being the adoptive parent your child needs you to be.
301: Barbara Herel, mom of a teen, and adoption learner, on 9 awkward adoption situations that WILL arise.
402: Dawn Davenport: why and how adoptive parents can say YES to continuing parenting education and NO to parenting echo chambers.
109: The latest research from following adoptive families for 15+ years, explained by Abbie Goldberg, PhD.
201: Gabrielle Glaser, American Baby author, on the effects of closedness in adoption.
102: Birth mom Ashley Mitchell on the necessity for better adoption education for everyone involved.
104: Shifting from shame and secrecy to truth and transparency, with adoptee Rich Uhrlaub.
108: Improving adoption now with Family to Family Support Network’s Rebecca Vahle.
201: Gabrielle Glaser, American Baby author, on the effects of closedness in adoption.
302: Maggie Gallant and Suzanne Bachner: we write plays about being adopted to help all adoptees — including yours.
303: Damon L Davis, adoptee and host of Who Am I Really? podcast on what adoptees need from their parents to answer that question.
103: Carolyn Savage tells her inconceivable story about pregnancy, adoption, and surrogacy.
104: Shifting from shame and secrecy to truth and transparency, with adoptee Rich Uhrlaub.
303: Damon L Davis, adoptee and host of Who Am I Really? podcast on what adoptees need from their parents to answer that question.
307: Interracial adoptee Tony Hynes on creating an adoption that doesn’t “split the baby.”
403: Brad Ewell and Fred Nicora: Why an adoptee’s truth matters more than their parents’ comfort (coming in April).
404: Brad Reedy, PhD: Guilt, Shame, and Boundaries in Adoption (coming in May).
104: Shifting from shame and secrecy to truth and transparency, with Rich Uhrlaub.
105: On being wedged between the pain of one set of parents and the joy of another, with Angela Tucker.
106: Author Sara Easterly on the dreaded phrase “you’re not my real mom!”
111: LMFT Lesli Johnson on babies as a blank slate.
205: Adoptee Sara Easterly and birth mom Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard bust 5 myths adoptive parents still believe.
206: Anne Heffron on how and why to heal from infertility grief to make room for a child.
302: Maggie Gallant and Suzanne Bachner: we write plays about being adopted to help all adoptees — including yours.
303: Damon L Davis, host of Who Am I Really? podcast on what adoptees need from their parents to answer that question.
304: Janelle Ison, adoptee and birth mom, on what adoptive parents need to know about the power they hold in adoption relationships.
305: Joanna Ivey, adoptee and adoptive mom, on entrance narratives and how a seemingly harmless one can, in fact, cause harm.
307: Interracial adoptee Tony Hynes on creating an adoption that doesn’t “split the baby.”
309: From “lucky” child to “loved” child, with children’s storybook author Allison Olson.
401: Rebecca Ricardo, whose adoption resume includes adoptee (1960s), birth mom (1980s), adoption professional (1990s). Lots of insights here!
403: Brad Ewell and Fred Nicora: Why an adoptee’s truth matters more than their parents’ comfort.
111: Adoptee and LMFT Lesli Johnson on babies as a blank slate.
202: Adoptive parent group facilitators Katie Biron and Kara Andersen on being the adoptive parent your child needs you to be.
207: What adoption-competent therapist Jen Winkelmann, MA, LPC, NCC, thinks you need to know and do for your adopted child.
401: Rebecca Ricardo, whose adoption resume includes adoptee (1960s), birth mom (1980s), adoption professional (1990s). Lots of insights here!
404: Brad Reedy, PhD: Guilt, Shame, and Boundaries in Adoption.
208: Rita Soronen, CEO & President of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption on finding permanent homes for children.
402: Dawn Davenport: why and how adoptive parents can say YES to continuing parenting education and NO to parenting echo chambers.
105: On being wedged between the pain of one set of parents and the joy of another, with adoptee Angela Tucker.
307: Interracial adoptee Tony Hynes on creating an adoption that doesn’t “split the baby.”
308: A Twist on the Challenges of Transracial Adoption with Lynn Brown.
306: Jess Tennant and Greg on what if adoption doesn’t work? What happens then?
112: Best Advice from 12 adoption thought leaders from Season 1.
209: Best Advice from 10 adoption thought leaders in Season 2.
310: Best Advice from Season 3’s Experts.
Video Series
Adoption Unfiltered
Adoption Unfiltered is presented by adoptee Sara Easterly, birth parent Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and adoptive parent Lori Holden. Collectively, we bring 75 years of lived experience relating to adoption, and we span the Baby Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial generations. We understand the history, challenges, and trends experienced by people living in adoption and the broader adoption constellation, and we are recognized throughout the adoption community as thought leaders, influencers, and bridge-builders.
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