Reflections in Real Time
Awakened by Adoption: History, Trends and the Voices That Matter
This is the first in a 3-part blog series exploring the hidden history of adoption in the U.S. and its deep ties to race, class, and power. By uncovering these truths, we invite you not only into a deeper understanding of the systems ...
There’s a shift happening.
You can feel it, can’t you?
Something in you knows:
We weren’t meant to fight forever.
We were meant to create.
To raise a generation that doesn’t inherit our patterns of fear, control, and disconnection.
More and more of us are moving beyond “anti-racism”—
not because...
What if privilege isn’t what we think it is?
What if it’s not just about wealth or power or even access—but about what we haven’t had to see?
I’ve been sitting with this idea lately:
Maybe privilege is just a blind spot.
Not something to feel ashamed of. Not something to feel superior about. But ...
You love your children deeply. You're doing your best to raise them with care, intention and heart. And yes - adopting or raising children of color has changed you in profound ways. But love alone doesn't erase the deeper patterns we've inherited. And when we parent with unexamined bias, our childre...
It might look like a tantrum.
A slammed door. A disrespectful tone.
A total refusal to brush teeth, go to school, or follow rules that “should” be simple.
But sometimes, what you’re really witnessing isn’t a child misbehaving.
You’re watching trauma rise up through generations.
And land, screaming...
Parenting is hard. Transracial parenting? It’s a whole different level of navigating love, loss, and learning. White Awake Parenting was born out of my own humbling, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-expanding experience of raising Black children in a world that wasn’t built for them—and of waking ...
For years, I believed my son’s struggles were my fault. When he raged, withdrew, or acted out in public, I felt like I was failing as a mother. Every angry outburst, every meltdown, every call from school felt like a flashing neon sign announcing: “You’re doing it wrong.”
If you’ve felt this way to...