Sara Easterly is back with us, she’s the author of Searching for Mom and the founder of Adoptee Voices. Today we’re talking about how Sara became friends with an adoptive mother and a birth mother in order to write a book called Adoption Unfiltered. It’s a hard conversation because when Haley got asked to endorse this book she had to say no, to a friend, who we value and deeply appreciate for her contributions to the adoptee community. So we got together to talk about it. We address the power dynamics when interacting with adoptive parents, we talk about whether or not adoption really is always going to be around, and what adoptive parents need to be doing now that they know they participated in a terrible system.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Searching for Mom: A Memoir by Sara Easterly
Adoption Unfiltered by Sara Easterly (an adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (a birth mom), and Lori Holden (an adoptive mom)
Check out this episode of Adoption Unfiltered - Adoption Constellation Round Table: "What is hard about adoption?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uObcPpsdJp8&t=1420s
Sara’s previous Adoptees On appearances episodes 143, 197, and 227
Adoptee Voices E-Zine
Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A Model of Adoptee Awareness by Susan F. Branco, JaeRan Kim, Grace Newton, Stephanie Kripa Cooper-Lewter, and Paula O’Loughlin - download in full here: https://harlows-monkey.com/2022/06/23/coming-to-consciousness/ and episode 235 JaeRan Kim, Ph.D. shares more about the model.

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