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Resilience Is Earned, Not Automatic: Why Adoptees Adapt (An Adoptee Remembrance Day Episode)
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Summary
“Kids are resilient.” Most adoptees grew up hearing some version of it. In this solo episode, released the day before Adoptee Remembrance Day and two days before her adoption day and the podcast’s one-year anniversary, Julie takes a hard, honest look at the word her podcast is named for.
Drawing on Jean Kelly Widner’s The Adoption Paradox, Paul Sunderland’s idea that adoption should really…
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