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My Adopted Self

Judi Craddock

'Out of the fog' adoptee sharing my journey on the search for SELF

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The Fallout of Telling the Truth

The fairytale

I’ve heard my adoption story repeated many times by my parents. Like so many other adoption stories, it sounds like a fairytale.

With a whimsical look on her face, my adopted mother used to say, “We chose you – we wanted...

15 days ago
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The Unspoken Truths of Adoption

There’s so much about adoption that’s unsaid. Adoptees are shrouded in secrecy and lies.

Without knowledge of our origins, we’re taught to embrace the lie that our adopted family is our real family and be grateful.

But behind the sociall...

2 months ago
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When the Body Remembers Relinquishment

Two days after my birthday last year, I experienced a ‘somatic memory’, a bodily imprint of a past experience.

Lying in bed on a Sunday morning, I felt a heavy sensation in my chest and stomach, a wave of sadness and hopelessness, followed...

3 months ago
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The Double Life of Adoptees

For most of my life, I’ve felt I was living a double life.

There was the quiet, shy, ‘good’ adoptee who outwardly didn’t cause trouble and embraced her adoption without question.

Then there was her inner landscape, where she imagined he...

4 months ago
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Unseen and Unheard

One of the reasons I write about my experience of adoption is to help other adoptees feel seen, heard and understood.

And, as I write this, the weight of not feeling seen, heard or understood is weighing heavy on me, and writing is my cath...

6 months ago
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