Mirella Stoyanova is our guest today, and I don’t normally say this, but this was one of my favourite conversations in recent memory. Mirella is a therapist and writer, and her insights dazzled me. We talk about her experience being adopted at age 5, and what coming to America from Bulgaria was like. We discussed the what-ifs of kinship adoption, living in the both/and of grief and gratitude, and she shares an insight that stops me in my tracks: do adoptees reflect an existential crisis back to society?

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Loss, Side Effects May Include by Mirella Soyanova - https://writeordiemag.com/elliptical-love/loss-side-effects-may-include (read on Adoptee Literary Festival 2025 Sizzle Reel https://youtu.be/ZvF1TUhjHXM?si=M-bjsdedHRIAIQsY&t=1924)
Mirella’s therapy website: https://www.mirellawarren.com/
Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair by Miriam Greenspan
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

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