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✨ What happens when you’re both an adoptee and an adoptive parent?

You gain a powerful perspective — one that can challenge, reshape, and rewrite the narratives we’ve all been told about adoption.

Today I’m sitting down with Allison Olsen, who never set out to become an author. But when she couldn’t find children’s books that told the adoption story with honesty, compassion, and balance… she wrote them herself. 📚💡

Now, Allison is on a mission to shift the way adoption is talked about — for adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents alike. Her work is opening hearts, changing conversations…