Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive

Reclaiming You Rae - Adoptee Reclaimed

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel you've lost yourself through being adopted? Listen in as adoptee and adoptee coach Rae shares her take on finding ourselves, how insights ...

Lightbulb Moments Rebecca Ricardo

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How clear on you on what heals you? The clearer we get, the better we heal. Listen in as adoptee, birth mother and adoption professional Rebecca share...

Peace, Finally With Eva Asprakis

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are you conflicted? Caught between your biological and adoptive mothers, fathers or broader families? Seeking peace, love or something else that you c...

Holistic Healing Sarah Patstone

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How's your healing? If you're looking for more healing then a broader, holistic, view may help you jump the barriers on your journey. Listen in as ado...

Less Hurt By The Hurt Ferera Swan

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are your feelings sometimes unbearable? No wonder we try to stuff them down! But that doesn't work does it? So what are we to do? Listen in as Ferera ...

Befriending Loss With Jennifer Jue-Steuck

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So many of us spent so long pushing tough emotions like loss away. So much of that has been unconscious. What if we can welcome loss in like a friend?...

Grace With Louise Browne

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Would you like a better relationship with yourself? Less anxiety? Less anger? Listen in as we talk about forgiving ourselves, grace and much more. I d...

40 Years Of Healing With Paige Strickland

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the strongest themes in our conversations on healing is that it's an ongoing process. So what do learn over that process that helps us along th...

Gratitude Josee Brault

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you feel when say that you should be grateful for having been adopted? Angry? Frustrated? Invalidated? Feeling grateful is totally different to...

Unshackling From Trauma With Adoptee Suni Zmich

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does trauma sometimes keep you locked up?Listen in as transracial adoptee shares Suni powerful insights about breaking free from our trauma to find th...

Peace With Gilli Bruce

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peace. Isn't that what all want? Or maybe just a bit more peace would be nice. A bit more well, peaceful. Triggered less of the time. Trigger for shor...

Choices With Jill Bolte Taylor

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us aren't choosing how we feel most of the time. Most of us aren't choosing what we think most of the time. Our trauma is choosing our thought...

Seeing Our Potential With Anneke Vinke

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whilst we are consumed with our trauma, we miss our potential. Listen in as therapist Anneke points us towards hope, the future and healing. Profound ...

Growth With Linda Pevac aka Emma Stevens

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we grow? What stops us growing? How do we remove those barriers? Emma shares hard won insights to empower us along our life-long healing journe...

Open With Fiona Myles

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we move forward on our healing journey given the complexities around adoption. Remaining open seems to be one of Fiona's key drivers. Listen in...

Healing & Reunion with Melisha Mitchell & Lizz Hutchison

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How many reunions are still going over 2 decades later? How does reunion help healing? Listen in as birth mother Melisha and her daughter Lizz talk ab...

Connected With Sara Docan-Morgan

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to feel more connected? Listen in as transnational adoptee Sara shares how she found that feeling of connection with her birth family. You...

Learning To Heal With Vin

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you're stuck on your healing journey it may be because you're not seeing clearly. I know I've done that. But we don't know what we don't know. So g...

Out Of The Abyss With Lisa Ann

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Being stuck in the abyss hurts like hell. So how did Lisa Ann find a ladder out? Listen in for a deep exploration of healing through self reflection a...

Feeling Whole With Candace Cahill

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you yearn to feel whole? Understanding the really tough stuff birth mothers went (and are still going through) has profound effects on how us adopt...

Processing Trauma To Heal With Liz DeBetta

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have to feel it to heal it. So how do we do that? Listen in as Liz sets out how the creative process that helps her process trauma. We dive into gr...

Healing, Holistically With Kelly Williams

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you sometimes feel you're getting nowhere fast? Like you're treading water instead of making progress? I don't know about you but I've gotten stuck...

Wave After Wave With Janeen Jackson

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wave after wave of powerful emotions threaten to engulf us as trauma blows like a force 10 gale. Anxiety, insecurity and fear feel like they can drown...

Overcoming Issues With Abandonment and Anger With Guy Gray

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, Guy Gray walks us through dealing with anger that has come up as a result of abandonment. Guy was placed for adoption at birth and wa...

Feeling Whole With Dawn Tracz

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

So many of us have felt wounded so long. So what would it feel like to be whole? Listen in as we explore experiencing wholeness and what get in its wa...

A New Relationship With Trauma Dr Joyce Maguire Pavao

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us - myself included have sought to fix our trauma only to find it exhausting and ineffective. So what we do instead? Listen in as adoptee and...

Experiencing Healing With Nicolle Tremitiere

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We can't talk ourselves out of our pre-verbal trauma. Our intellect can't heal pre-intellectual trauma. So what on earth do we do? Listen in as we div...

From Pain To Resilience With Glenn Morey

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How does our pain become resilience? Filmmaker and transracial adoptee Glenn has, with his wife, interviewed 100 Korean adoptees for their Side by Sid...

Adoption Unfiltered

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What helps you heal? Other people's perspectives continues to be a huge catalyst on my healing journey. Whether it's validating our feelings or showin...

Open To Healing With David Enker

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I've been getting in my own way!!! As I reflected on David's words it struck me that I've TOTALLY over-estimated my openness to change. It's time for...

A Healing Mindset With Damon Davis

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mindset is rarely talked about in adoptee circles, it's trauma all the way. And yet it's a big part of what helps us heal according to Damon who's int...

At Home With Jo North

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel at home? Like you belong? With a complete sense of your identity? Therapist Jo and I go deep on healing. We explore barriers on that journ...

Healing On Every Level With Danielle Gaudette

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you happy with your healing? If not it may be because there are still some parts of you yet to heal. Listen in as Danielle explores where we heal ...

Our Whole Soul With Corissa Saint Laurent

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you confused about who you are? Identity has many layers is inextricably linked with healing. Transracial Adoptee Corissa suffered in the deep dar...

At Peace - Finally With Pamela Karanova

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

So many of have been fighting our feelings for so long that war is all we know. Pamela's whole life typified that. So how do we find peace? Listen in ...

Repairing Ourselves With Elliott Driscoll

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel broken? Or that bits of you are? Adoptee and psychotherapist Elliott and go deep on figuring out the broken bits including the hard to get...

Loving Our Lives With Jill Uchiyama

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spontaneous gratitude from within is way different to being told to be grateful by others. Listen in as we explore Jill's expansive and powerful take ...

Feeling We Belong With Julie McGue

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel you belong? Being relinquished disrupts our attachment and reunion doesn't always fix that. Julie shares how she found the feeling of belo...

Holistic Healing With Claire Magenheimer

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's hard to heal pre-verbal trauma through talk therapy alone because we literally can't put words to it. So what do we do? Adoptee and adoptee coach...

The Healing Space

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is a LOT different. Listen in as I point you towards that healing space beyond trauma.Here's the link to a spine tingling video https:...

Self Compassion With Spring Hecht

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How much compassion do have you for yourself? We give ourselves a hard time, until we don't. Listen in as adoptee and therapist Spring shares insights...

A Healing Mindset Megan Stroup

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We don't hear the word mindset a lot in adoptee circles. That's strange because healing often involves a change in what we think. Listen in as adoptee...

Understanding Healing With Abby Derr-Moore

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Looking for a roadmap to healing? Listen in as adoptee and therapist Abby sets out how the stages we go through. Very succinct and clear. Here's a bi...

Belonging And Healing With Nicole Rademacher

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you long to belong? Could belonging help you heal? Listen in as transcultural adoptee Nicole shares her profound insights to help you along your he...

Spirituality & Adoptees Christelle Pellecuer

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Has psychology - the most common path in the western world -  failed to make you feel whole?  Are you looking for something more healing? A spiritua...

How To Heal With Candi Byrne

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Would you like to bust the belief that there's something wrong with you? It's a belief born out of us being relinquished. One that's shared by so many...

Healing Obsessed With Vin

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If time was the greatest healer we'd all be done healing by now. So what IS the biggest healer? And what does healing even mean. Listen as we obsess o...

Healing Clarity Sydney Parkhurst

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel confused? Clarity brings peace and helps us heal. Transracial adoptee Sydney shares some of the key insights that have brought her healing...

What If Adoption Isn't Personal? With June Wright

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

June believes that she was born 'out of the fog'. She cried incessantly for her first 2 years. That preverbal trauma of relinquishment is sub-consciou...

Debunking Beliefs With Carrie Doung

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you believe that you're enough? Do you  believe you are loveable? Do you believe you are loved? Relinquishment sets in motion all sorts of beliefs...

Balance With Ujaala Chaudhuri

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking to balance conflicting emotions? Or seeking peace between them? Listen is as Ujaala shares her learnings on the dichotomies of her lif...

Truth & Lies With Andy Wallis

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you sick of the liar in your head saying that there's something wrong with you? Are you trying to silence that inner critic? All too often this pr...

Embracing All Of Ourselves With Joellen Peters

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are there parts of you that you try to push away? I've definitely rejected the part of me that's scared of rejection. Denial, numbing and overriding o...

Re-imagining Triggers With Carlos Munez

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you wish feeling triggered wasn't so painful? Or that you were triggered less? Listen in as transracial adoptee Carlos shares how he sees triggers ...

Living Forward With Delores Sullivan

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As a wise mentor once said to me, the past is a place of reference not a place of residence. Understanding birth mothers' predicaments is incredibly h...

Empowered With Julia Small

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Would you like to feel more empowered? Listen in as transracial adoptee Julia shares her insights into empowerment and connection. She also talks abou...

Riding The Emotional Rollercoaster of Reunion Dawnie Hammond

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do the emotional rollercoaster of reunion? Dawnie is right in the throes of figuring this out. She shares what she's learning as she goes and her ...

The Truth That Sets Us Free with Roxan Chen

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking for answers? Because the truth sets us free right? Roxan  wasn't told that she was adopted until her adoptive mother blurted it out i...

From Anger To Peace With Aubrey Jackson

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adoption trauma often manifests in anger or a loud inner critic. Would you like more peace? Listen in as Aubrey shares her learnings and insights on h...

Our Higher Self Monica Hall

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if what had happened to us happened for us? Adoptee and birth mother Monica shares her healing insights to help us heal and access our higher sel...

Open To Change David R Ford

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Would you like to handle change better? Life started with a profound change for those of us adopted as infants: a new family. Later - search and reuni...

Clarity On Identity

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Confused about identity? Looking for clarity? Listen in as I take us through the layers of identity to the essential truth. The thing that's stationar...

Stages Of Trauma & Healing

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Where are you on the trauma and healing journey? In today's episode I share the stages I've been through and what's helped me navigate them. Guests an...

Numbing

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Learning to feel rather than numb feels really important for me at the moment. Here's some things I'm exploring. I hope they help you. Guests and the ...

Confusion In Reunion With David Benjamin

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is reunion confusing you? Are you caught between biological and adoptive families? Adoptee and therapist David talks about magic moments, honeymoon pe...

Psychological & Spiritual Healing With Michelle Madrid

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do you believe about yourself? How do you see yourself? Trauma messes up our beliefs and identity. Listen in as Michelle dives deep into busting ...

Healing Change With Linda Pevac aka Emma Stevens

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you stuck in a rut on your healing journey? Unsure of what's holding you back? Listen in as Linda and I dive deep into how changing feelings kicks...

Deeper Healing With Kathy Mackechney

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you get the sense that there's more of you that needs to heal? Have you had glimpses of your whole self but you want to see and feel whole more of ...

Feeling Connected

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you yearn for more connection? With others? With yourself? Listen in as I explore why we feel like that, what gets in the way of connection and how...

De-fusing Triggers

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you explode when triggered? Do you avoid situations that you fear might trigger you? Listen in as I take a deep dive into triggers so you can hear ...

From Holed To Whole

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

So many of us feel we're missing something and yearn for completeness. So how do we fill that void? Today's episode is a deep dive into that space whe...

Redemptive Resilience With Lisa Quaites

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Looking to bounce back? Having a tough time riding the emotional rollercoaster of reunion? Listen into a particular empowering interview with Lisa as ...

How To Stop People Pleasing

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you put other people's needs ahead of your own?Are you sick of doing that? People pleasing is so common amongst us. So how do we stop it? Listen in...

Feeling Whole

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing that you're whole is one thing. Feeling whole is another. How does that change happen? Listen in as I dive deep into healing. I hope you love t...

Seeing Our Wholeness

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to feel whole? Maybe healing isn’t about becoming whole. Maybe it’s about seeing our wholeness is hidden by trauma. Listen in as I div...

Empowerment

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Looking for change? Listen in as I dive into what empowers us adoptees to change drawing from two fantastic guests on the Thriving Adoptees podcast Em...

Bouncing Back Cynthia McGuigan

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do we bounce back? Listen in as birth mother and foster care alumnus Cynthia shares her insights on resilience and healing from the profound chall...

What’s Healing? & What Heals?

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do we heal? The million dollar (pound or euro) question. Focusing on healing rather than trauma is a great start. Understanding what healing helps...

Pathways To Healing Amanda Zaidman

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you out of the fog and suffering from the pain that's been suppressed for so long? So how do you heal? We all have to find our personal pathway ou...

A Spiritual Being Having An Adoptee's Experience

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Identity is tricky for us. As adoptees we're great at describing trauma, less great at describing identity. The truth of who we are is simpler than we...

More Than Good Enough With Ann Haralambie

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you feel there's something wrong with you? It's a feeling that has haunted many of us for as long as we can remember. So how do we finally see our ...

Who Am I? Michelle Gauvreau

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you keep going when your world has been turned upside down? When you find out that you've been lied to over and again? When the shocking truth ...

Separating From Our Trauma

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking for insights to help you heal? Many of us feel overwhelmed by our trauma. Engulfed by it. Consumed by it. Or perhaps tainted by it. I ...

Answering The Identity Question With Simon Benn

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There's a LOT of secrecy and shame around adoption. So it's no wonder we are confused about our identity and wrong about our self worth.  Listen in a...

Filling The Void With leon clowes

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever felt empty inside? Many of us seek to fill our aching emptiness through alcohol, drugs and other addictions. Anything to numb the pain. ...

Transformation Through Turmoil With Steve Taylor

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if you could harness your trauma to grow? You can. Listen in as Steve shares the silver lining of what we've been through - the past that sometim...

A Felt Sense Of Our Value With Sally Verstraete

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Self worth seems like a nice idea. Something we are working on. Something that we might have some day. What if that day is today? Listen in as transra...

Ending An identity Crisis With David Enker

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to get clear on who you really are? Identity confuses the heck out of us adoptees. Until it doesn't. Listen in as we peel back the many la...

Deconstructing Beliefs With Amy Crossland

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you believe you are unloveable? If so you're going to love this interview with Amy.  She shares how she's deconstructed her beliefs. An incredibly...

Finding Balance With Kate Murphy

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you looking for more balance? Is a negativity bias getting in the way of you enjoying your life? Listen as adoptee and psychotherapist explores ba...

Grace For Ourselves & Others With Melissa Ulven

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Would you like smoother relationships with others? And yourself? Grace makes relationships easier. Listen in as Melissa shares how she is finding grac...

Knowing Your Value With Emberly Zellars

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you struggle to see your own value? Has what you've been through impacted your self worth? Emberly was raised by foster parents and her grandfather...

Spiritual Epiphanies With Sara Easterly

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you believe you're broken? Or not good enough? These are things that we all struggle with. So how do we change our beliefs? How does trauma shape t...

Getting Clarity On Identity In 12 Minutes

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Who would we be without that voice in our head that tells us there's something wrong with us? That we're substandard? That our birth mother rejected u...

Ending An Identity Crisis Eric Curtis

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you felt uncomfortable in your own skin? Uncertain about who you are? Sensed something missing? Eric's anxiety about people sometimes compelled h...

Release With Gaynor Cherieann

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do we heal from a poor adoption? Listen in as Gaynor shares some of her most important lessons in releasing trauma by being raised by a narcissist...

Learnings From A 28 Year Search With Colin Curruthers

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you considering a search for your biological family? Or in the middle of a search and struggling. Listen in as Colin shares what he learned throug...

The Journey To The Universal Heart With Mariela Andersen

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you sometimes find identity confusing? Transracial and transnational adoption adds another layer to identity. Listen as Mariela shares her insights...

Anger's Antidote With Jaime Weatherholt

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What gets in the way of you thriving? For many of us, it's been anger and resentment. What about you? Listen in as transracial adoptee and therapist J...

Love & Hate Zhen Rammelsberg

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you a transracial/transnational adoptee with a complex relationship to your birth country/culture? Listen in as Zhen shares what she's learned nav...