What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing

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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.

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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.

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Adopting the Page: Writing Myself Back to Life

A terminal diagnosis led one Korean adoptee to plant medicine, writing, and an unexpected confrontation with grief, aloneness, and adoption.

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The Hidden Health Cost of Closed Adoption: What Breast Cancer Awareness Can Teach Us About Medical Access

One adoptee’s story shows how access to family medical history can mean the difference between early detection and life-threatening delay.

Most non-adopted people oversimplify and invalidate the grief of adoptees because they assume that our families are just like other families.

Adoptee Land by Kristen, Adoptee Contributor

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It’s such a curious thing how being relinquished is never talked about with sorrow; but instead with applaud for the adoptive parents.

Adoption, Shame & Cocktail Parties by Amy, Adoptee Contributor

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I played the role of being a chameleon; not realizing the toxicity of what I was doing in allowing people to mislabel me.

Latina Mislabeled by Martha, Adoptee Contributor

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