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Healing on Your Own Schedule (Synchronicity is the adoptee’s helping hand.)

1/18/2019

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Healing on Your Own Schedule (Synchronicity is the adoptee’s helping hand.) The Findlings Blog, Joanne Wilshin, A blog about being an adoptee, finding birth parents, and healing the adoptee wound.
  Does the whole process of healing the adoptee’s wound overwhelm you? Like, when will it ever end?
   I know I felt this way when I found my birth mother ’81 and my birth father in ’91. I’ve had a lot of time to heal, and I’ve come out on the other side, which makes me I feel like a veteran at it. If you’d like to read further, I’ll share 7 thoughts on healing.

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How I Found My Birth Father (Let's hear it for synchronicity!)

1/18/2019

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How I Found my Birth Father. Let's hear it for synchronicity. The Findlings Blog, Joanne Wilshin, A blog about being an adoptee, finding birth parents, and healing the adoptee wound.
It was really weird how I found my father. I wasn’t even looking for him.

In 1991 I kept pretty busy teaching junior high school English and driving my kids to school and soccer games. A dull depression had dogged me for past six months, and I wanted to know what it was about. As I’ve learned to do, I stated out loud that I wanted to know what the depression was about.


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    Joanne Wilshin

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      The Findlings blog is  about being an adoptee, finding my birth family, and healing the adoptee wound.
      In 1948 my brother and I were taken away, or abducted as I see it, from our mother. I was almost two, and my brother was almost three. We were legally adopted by our new parents seven  years later on the grounds that we'd been abandoned. In 1981 I found my birth mother and the rest of her family

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