074 – I Feel Some Of It Too

Serena told me she had a similar experience to what a lot of adoptees feel, even though she grew up with her birth mother. I’m always talking about empathizing with others, so I wanted to hear her story. Serena told me about her birth on a Native American reservation in Arizona then her mother moving away. She was adopted by her father when he married her mother, but Serena never knew her biological father. When her paternal family called to say her birth father was ill, she was too stunned to act quickly, so she only met his relatives at his chaotic funeral. Take a moment to listen to the parallels between what I’ll call Serena’s “adoption adjacent” experience and those of other adoptees. Read Full TranscriptSerena:                        https://www.temi.com/editor/t/HRAiDFqI20tet-RS7zClkGhoHkl-4jdVNqytGeleMaouVu7H7kuVbL8ctnYP8nQNMiBGMxb-HNN3Qn29eFOcsyntxd0?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=2.73 (00:02)               I don’t think I recognized the severity of his sickness. I didn’t… At that age, you still think you’re invincible and I had never had anyone that was even close to me die. So to have, you know, these people who are part of my paternal family, but I’ve never, I’ve never known call me and sort of dropped this sort of bomb. I think I just kind of froze. Voices:                        https://www.temi.com/editor/t/HRAiDFqI20tet-RS7zClkGhoHkl-4jdVNqytGeleMaouVu7H7kuVbL8ctnYP8nQNMiBGMxb-HNN3Qn29eFOcsyntxd0?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=35.91 (00:35)               Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I in mind? Damon:  &nbsp