“Adoption trauma is about liminal loss—loss that is vague, ambiguous, ever-present, and not publicly mourned. But it’s also about liminal hope—an unspoken, against-all-odds hope that sits beside the grief, refusing to let go. My experience at the CUB Retreat 2025
Adoptee reunion guide: searching for birth parents, managing expectations, setting boundaries, and navigating complex birth family relationships.”
TWICE THE ADOPTION MEMOIR: An Adoptee Twin Doubles Down on Her Adoption Story ADOPTION MEMOIR REVIEW by Patricia Knight Meyer “Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” Author Julie Ryan McGue | Available Feb. 4, 2025 |
As an adoptee, I recently had the privilege of attending the CUB (Concerned United Birthparents) Retreat 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. Having attended two Untangling Our Roots conferences, I had met several first mothers who encouraged me to join them
Is it just me or does 2024 seem to be showing itself as the year of adoption books? Weekly, I find myself adding a new adoption book to my cart. Adoptee, adoptive parent, and first mother memoirs, collective constellation anthologies,
Talk about adoptee resiliency, I see that the spontaneous combustion of my writing cabin, an event that seemingly took everything that day, was truly the catalyst for a new reckoning, a coming to terms with self, a deeper understanding of
SHE’S COMING ALONG Perhaps you have or haven’t heard about this adoptee writing residency passion project of mine. Lately, I have started referring to my origin story as my Tin Can Conception, because I was conceived in a 1952 Spartanette
But this time the adult me had embraced the 12-year-old me, still trying to prove she belonged. The same me that once wrapped Daddy’s Lincoln around a gas pump, trying to get the car closer while my mom was in
The Not Knowing had driven me to ask strangers in the street if they’d ever relinquished a child, to ask my mother if I looked like this girl or that, to weave a magical fantasy that my older female cousin
This year’s virtual conference is titled “Honoring the Past, Treasuring the Present, Shaping the Future.” So it seems fitting that I will present a session on memoir writing titled,“The Power of Memoir to Heal Your Heart and Claim Your Story.”
