Difficult Conversations

Navigating the more thorny portions of the truth can be painful

Trauma is hard AF, but we push on through the best way we know how.

What is the role for adoptees in newly-discovered family?

A deep(er) consideration of my blood relations

Adoption may have saved my mother from all kinds of pathology

When the elders know, but won’t tell

When the whispers in the family become bloodline fact

Can confirming genetic connection heal long-standing family rifts?