Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive

Let's thrive. Thriving Adoptees helps adoptees thrive. What does thriving mean to you? Healing? Post Traumatic Growth? Evolving? Listen in as we explore what's helped adoptees do all that... Email me at simon@thrivingadoptees.com if you'd like to have a chat about being a guest on the show. There have been 93,000 downloads of the show since launch in April 2021.

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Supporting Your Adopted Children Through Trauma With Jay Vaughan

Jay Vaughan is a dramatherapist, Theraplay Practitioner & Supervisor, Somatic Experience Practitioner & Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist. She was brought up by step parents which sowed some seeds for her work. Her early experiences working in children's homes set her down a path to help children who've been through trauma and supporting their families. She combines her role of Clinical Director with CEO of Family Futures. She's a keen advocate for more support for adoptive families. ...

May 06, 2021•49 min•Ep. 9

Helping Families Succeed With Adam Pertman

Adam Pertman is President, CEO and Founder of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, a unique national nonprofit organization that provides research, resources, education, training, consulting and advocacy to improve the lives of children, families and the professionals who serve them. NCAP’s mission is to update child welfare policy and practice in the U.S. so that they progress beyond their traditional “child-placement” model to a new paradigm focused on enabling children and their fa...

May 03, 2021•48 min•Ep. 8

The Voice In The Adoptee's Head

Years ago people were locked up for saying they heard voices in their head but I've yet to meet someone who doesn't have one. They may not have realised it's not them. They may not have realised they have one. But they ALL have one. The negative voice in my head, the inner critic, the internal terrorist, the enemy within me started squawking early in my life. It really ramped up after some particularly nasty bullying when I was at scout camp. It grew louder as I grew older. Being adopted gave me...

Apr 28, 2021•13 min•Ep. 7

Primally Wounded?

Nancy Verrier's seminal book the Primal Wound is much read and talked about in the adoption world. It had a profound effect on me. But not for the reason you might expect. This video challenges the theme of the book in a way that runs counter to a lot of thinking. That challenging might just give you a glimpse of hope. If it does that for one person I'll be delighted. More hope, understanding and challenge at www.thrivingadoptees.com https://thriving-adoptees.simplecast.com https://www.facebook....

Apr 27, 2021•9 min•Ep. 6

Relaxing Into Parenting Your Adoptive Child So They Thrive With Anna Sharkey

Anna grew up biological siblings, an adoptive sister and a sister who her parents fostered. They also fostered many pre adoption babies. Her early years fuelled a desire to desire to help others. She studied to become a social worker and has specialised in adoption since 1988. She's now CEO of Adoption Focus a voluntary adoption agency. There's a lot of negative narratives about adoption and Anna shares her insights on rising above this and ignoring the noise to thrive. She talks about coping wi...

Apr 26, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 5

Informed Intuition - Learning To Thrive With Phyllis Stevens

Phyllis and her husband always knew that having children and adoption were going to be part of their life. They thought that their love would be enough for their children to thrive. But they found out fairly soon that it wasn't enough. Nothing was working. One eye opening moment was reading her daughter's diary where she shared her the dark thoughts and feelings. Phylis took it upon herself to find out everything she could about her kids, adoption, trauma and special needs. She shares a whole ho...

Apr 22, 2021•44 min•Ep. 4

Helping Parents Be The Best They Can Be With Mike and Kristin Brown

Mike and Kristin's passion is helping parents be the best parents they can be. They explain exactly what that means and how that helps children thrive: Feeling connected to their culture Having discovered their identity Recognising past trauma and feeling whole Having a purpose and making a positive impact on the world. To do that they discuss some big principles and specific practical help based on errors that they've learned from the "school of hard knocks" For more about their conference: htt...

Apr 19, 2021•28 min•Ep. 3

Thriving So Your Children Can Thrive With Sue Armstrong Brown

"Why am I sitting here all by myself?" asked her son. Sue and her husband had to wait 4 years when biology wouldn't give their son a sister to make their family complete. Sue fell in love with her daughter and adoption. It changed her life. Then it changed her career. That gives her a unique perspective she's delighted to share with others. How thriving as parents helps children thrive too and some essential shifts in perspective she's seen for herself. Lots of simple and practical steps mums an...

Apr 19, 2021•53 min•Ep. 2

How to help adopted children succeed in life with Spencer Paskett

Spencer's uplifting story starts with 11 failed placements including one stillborn child, his wife's two bouts of cancer and countless miserable sleepless nights. But the couple were always coming from love so they just keep going. More than anything else, they wanted to share their hearts and home with children - loving them like children are meant to be loved. He shares what he's learned on the back of painful experience - insights on the big issues on adoptive parents' minds: Recognising and ...

Apr 19, 2021•38 min•Ep. 1

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Thriving Adoptees is a new podcast to inspire and empower adoptees and adopters. The aim - all adoptees thrive. Each episode explores how to make that happen with stories, interviews and insights from adopters, adoptees and leaders in adoption. So why I'm doing this? I was adopted at 5 weeks old and told about it so young I don't ever remember not knowing. I didn't suffer any adoption trauma until I hit 40 when I found out my childhood teddy bear was a gift from my birth mother. This caused an e...

Apr 14, 2021•2 min•Ep. 12

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