You Were Made For This

Podcast Episodes2021-09-09T13:09:19-05:00

One of the more popular topics from past episodes has been the story of Gail Rohde who was adopted as an infant, and her search as an adult for her birth mother. Then several years after finding her, she searched for her birth father – and found him, too. I’ll have links to those episodes at the bottom of the show notes. 

It can be a relational minefield in dealing with the dynamics of adoptees wanting to know where they’ve come from, especially when it’s been hidden from them.

I have a similar story about searching for my birth father that I wrote about in my book, THEM.  Today’s episode is about that search. 

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