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Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories

Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories

Auteur(s): Louise Browne & Sarah Reinhardt
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Two adult adoptees, Sarah Reinhardt and Louise Browne, delve into all things adoption - from their perspectives as adult adoptees.

Each season Sarah and Louise recap a chapter from a book centered on adoption and then interview a guest. Sarah and Louise come out of the 'fog' in real-time through Seasons One and Two and are advocating for change in the adoption industry. They want to give voice to all adoptees. Adoptee stories are needed to reframe the narrative around adoption.

Sarah and Louise, two former business partners who had a successful ice cream truck in Los Angeles, team up again - this time in frank and honest conversations about all things adoption from the adoptee perspective. Both were adopted shortly after birth, but they had very different experiences.

These will be intimate conversations, but also fun - because Sarah and Louise know how to lighten things up and have a good time. They also have an uncanny ability to get to the heart of a subject with anyone who crosses their path - so conversations will take many turns.

© 2025 Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
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  • Katherine: A Trauma Therapist Shares Her Insights
    Jul 22 2025

    Katherine Allen McNally is an adoptee and a licensed therapist who specializes in working with adoptees and their adoptive families. She transitioned from a career in graphic design and advertising to pursue this path, driven by a deep personal commitment to supporting this unique population. Over the course of her work, she has encountered a wide spectrum of adoption narratives, including various forms of conception, gestation, birth, relinquishment, adoption, and survival. These experiences led her, along with a colleague, to develop a trauma healing model known as The TAG Method for Trauma Reprocessing and Integration.

    At the heart of The TAG Method lies the adoption experience. Katherine is passionate about sharing this model and its insights with broader audiences. She believes that adoption represents a significant and often overlooked trauma—one that is visible yet rarely acknowledged. In her work, she explores how adoptees navigate attachment loss, the silent fear of being “not chosen” again, and the emotional impact often referred to as "the cloud." She also discusses the "three As" and how these themes influence the adoptee experience.

    Katherine shares how clients access these deep-seated pains and begin the process of healing, ultimately freeing themselves from a trauma they never asked to carry. She also offers personal reflections from her own healing journey, enriching her professional insights with lived experience.

    To find Katherine: http://www.ktherapy.com/

    Season 11: Adoptee Memoirs - books in order:

    Practically Still a Virgin by Monica Hall

    You Can't Get Rid of Me by Jesse Scott and Keri Ault

    Unspoken by Liz Harvie

    Sign up for our mailing list to get updates and the Eventbrite for our September 12th & 13th Washington, D.C. Event!

    Thank you to our Patreons! Join at the $10 level and be part of our monthly ADOPTEE CAFE community. The next meeting will be on Saturday, August 9th, @ 1 PM ET.

    RESOURCES for Adoptees:

    S12F Helping Adoptees
    Gregory Luce and Adoptees Rights Law
    Fireside Adoptees Facebook Group
    Dr. Liz Debetta: Migrating Toward Wholeness Movement
    Moses Farrow - Trauma therapist and advocate
    National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-8255 OR Dial or Text 988.
    Unraveling Adoption with Beth Syverson

    Adoptees Connect with Pamela Karanova

    Because She Was Adopted by Kristal Parke

    Dear Amy, letters to Amy Coney Barrett. A project by Meika Rouda


    Support the show

    To support the show - Patreon.

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    49 min
  • Theresa: When Adoption Fails
    Jul 15 2025

    Theresa Werba was born in 1962 in New York City to a 17-year-old former
    prostitute. She was given up for adoption at three months old. She was placed with a loving foster mother until she was 13 months old, when she was taken away for technical reasons and placed with an older couple with ties to a New Age religious cult.

    She endured a bizarre childhood of emotional and physical abuse and left home
    at the age of 15. She was disinherited by both adoptive parents upon their deaths.
    Theresa found her birth mother in 1984 and has had a positive relationship with
    her for over 40 years. Theresa was told a certain individual was her biological father and legally assumed his last name for over 30 years. In 2020, Theresa was able to locate her biological father through DNA testing via two half-sisters. He was a completely different person from the one her mother remembered. Unfortunately, he died in 2019. He never knew that Theresa existed. Theresa legally changed her last name to his in 2020 and is exceedingly happy with her newly harmonized genetic identity.

    Theresa is an author, poet, and singer. Her book, When Adoption Fails: Abuse,
    Autism, and The Search for My Identity,
    describes the unusual and peculiar life she had growing up in an abusive adoptive home with undiagnosed autism, and the search for, and discovery of both her biological parents. Find Theresa at www.theresawerba.com and on social media @thesonnetqueen.

    Season 11: Adoptee Memoirs - books in order:

    Practically Still a Virgin by Monica Hall

    You Can't Get Rid of Me by Jesse Scott and Keri Ault

    Unspoken by Liz Harvie

    Sign up for our mailing list to get updates and the Eventbrite for our September 12th & 13th Washington, D.C. Event!

    Thank you to our Patreons! Join at the $10 level and be part of our monthly ADOPTEE CAFE community. The next meeting will be on Saturday, August 9th, @ 1 PM ET.

    RESOURCES for Adoptees:

    S12F Helping Adoptees
    Gregory Luce and Adoptees Rights Law
    Fireside Adoptees Facebook Group
    Dr. Liz Debetta: Migrating Toward Wholeness Movement
    Moses Farrow - Trauma therapist and advocate
    National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-8255 OR Dial or Text 988.
    Unraveling Adoption with Beth Syverson

    Adoptees Connect with Pamela Karanova

    Because She Was Adopted by Kristal Parke

    Dear Amy, letters to Amy Coney Barrett. A project by Meika Rouda

    Support the show


    Support the show

    To support the show - Patreon.

    Voir plus Voir moins
    55 min
  • Don: For This Adoptee, Finding His Roots Led to Peace
    Jul 8 2025

    Like many people who went through the foster care system, Don Anderson was really curious about his roots. He started doing some research and realized his biological aunt on his mother’s side was living less than three miles away. His wife convinced him to introduce himself. She immediately recognized him and told him he looked like his mother.

    From there, Anderson met his biological mother, then started the research for his biological father. He ended up tracing his roots for generations, and now helps others trace their ancestry and find relatives. He’s written a book about his quest to find his parents.

    Paper and Spit: How DNA & Genealogy revealed my First Parents' identity by Don Anderson

    Season 11: Adoptee Memoirs - books in order:

    Practically Still a Virgin by Monica Hall

    You Can't Get Rid of Me by Jesse Scott and Keri Ault

    Unspoken by Liz Harvie

    Sign up for our mailing list to get updates and the Eventbrite for our September 12th & 13th Washington, D.C. Event!

    Thank you to our Patreons! Join at the $10 level and be part of our monthly ADOPTEE CAFE community. The next meeting will be on Saturday, July 12th, @ 1 PM ET.

    RESOURCES for Adoptees:

    S12F Helping Adoptees
    Gregory Luce and Adoptees Rights Law
    Fireside Adoptees Facebook Group
    Dr. Liz Debetta: Migrating Toward Wholeness Movement
    Moses Farrow - Trauma therapist and advocate
    National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-8255 OR Dial or Text 988.
    Unraveling Adoption with Beth Syverson

    Adoptees Connect with Pamela Karanova

    Because She Was Adopted by Kristal Parke

    Dear Amy, letters to Amy Coney Barrett. A project by Meika Rouda

    Support the show

    To support the show - Patreon.

    Voir plus Voir moins
    1 h et 7 min

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