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What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing
Jay Barbanel, author of Finding Tico, unpacks what he spent two decades avoiding, and what it took to finally choose healing over silence.
The Darkness: Adoptees and Disenfranchised Grief
A dear friend said something the other day that made me feel seen. He said, “A southern woman is an unbridled force of nature, and that’s how you were born and who you are, no matter what’s happened.” So, I guess that’s where it all started.
Siblings Reunited
Surreal. This is the word that comes to mind when I reflect on my reunion, from last year. Connecting with my birth siblings jolted me “out of the fog.”
Holiday Breathing
They come and they go, every year, like clockwork. You’d think I'd be more prepared after 43 years because they come at the same time EVERY year.
