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Tag Archives: healing
on therapy and healing
I had a life before you knew me – I remember blurting out one day in the middle of dinner. As if my parents didn’t get it. As if nothing they did could bring back the past. I was a … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption loss, healing, healing process, narrative, therapy, transracial adoption
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Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption – Part II
I’m three chapters into “Outsiders Within” and wow, can I just say? This book speaks tomy heart. Deeply, deeply. Things I’ve been too angry to say, things I’ve felt implicitly, but not known how to articulate. Things I was more … Continue reading
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