EMDR Therapy You Tube educational video from EMDR International Association

988 lifeline.org  Mental Health Crisis/Suicide Prevention Line

 

Examples of Non Parental Experiences:

• Father's Day: A Kirk Franklin Story
  
• Maxine's Baby: They Tyler Perry Story
• Kerry Washington opens up in new memoir, 'Thicker than Water' |GMA

 

Example of Late Discovery Adoption:

Yellowstone Jaime Dutton discovers he's adopted. Season Season 3 Episode 7 The Beating

You Tube clip: He Lived His Whole Life Without Knowing He was Adopted

 

Podcasts:

• Adoptees On
• Who Am I Really
• The Black Adoption Podcast
• Labor of Love: A Podcast for BIPOC Adoptees Navigating Parenthood
• Adapted (explores the experiences of Korean adoptees)
• ABC Adoptees Born in China
• Birth Moms Real Talk
• This Land

 

Websites:

• InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) https://intercountryadopteevoices.com
• Adoption Mosaic https://adoptionmosaic.com/about-us
• Concerned United Birth Parents 

 

Books: There are many more wonderful books which will be added

• The Primal Wound: Nancy Newton Verrier
• Coming home to Self: The Adopted Child: Grows Up, Nancy Newton Verrier
• You Don't Look Adopted: Anne Heffron
• Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families: Jayne Shooler, Betsy Keefer Smalley, et al.
• Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self: David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter, et. al. 
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body Healing of Trauma: Sean Pratt, Bessel Van Der Kolk, et al.
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction: Gabor Mate' MD
• American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption: Gabrielle Glasser, Kathe Mazure, et. al. 
• The Girl I am, Was, and Never Will Be: A speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption: Shannon Gibney
• Journey of the Adopted Self: Betty Jean Lifton
• Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience: Betty Jean Lifton
• The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade: Ann Fessler, Coleen Marlo, et al.