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Adoption Starts with Trauma #adoptionandrace #adoptionawareness #adoptionethics #adoptionhealing #adoptionstartswithloss #adoptiontrauma #adoptiontruths #antiadoptionmovement #breakingthenarrative #interracialadoption #lossandlove #motherhoodincomplexity #parentingwisheyesopen #transracialadoption #whiteawakeparenting @secondbestandsacred

Adoption doesn’t begin with love.

It begins with loss.
And sometimes, even earlier, it begins with violence.

Not every baby is conceived in safety.
Not every pregnancy is chosen.
Some children begin their lives in the aftermath of rape, coercion, addiction, abandonment.
Some grow in wombs heavy wi...

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When the Apology isn't Enough: Parenting Through a Broken Mental Health System #adoptionawareness #adoptiveparenting #complexneeds #fiercelove #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #parentadvocate #parentingthroughcrisis #specialneedsparenting #systemicfailure #traumainformedcare #truthtelling #whiteawakeparenting

The mental health system is broken. If you’ve ever tried to get support for your child, you already know.

Waitlists stretch for months. Providers are maxed out (I wrote another blog post about the mental health system needing 5x as many child psychiatrists as we currently have). Agencies are scramb...

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The Trauma Beneath Adoption #adopteevoices #adoptionawareness #adoptionethics #adoptionmosaic #adoptionnarratives #adoptiontrauma #centeringadoptees #ethicaladoption #transracialadoption #wetheexperts

We often hear about adoption as a story of rescue. A hopeful solution for families who can’t have children of their own. A win-win. A happy ending.

But that version of the story is missing entire chapters — and the most important voice of all: the adoptee.

Organizations like Adoption Mosaic have b...

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