From Adoptee Ferera Swan: On Adoptee Psychological and Physiological Trauma Caused by Adoption Separation

On November 8, 2018November 8, 2018 By legitimatebastardIn Adoption Psychology, Adoption Trauma14 Comments

Quoting my new friend, Ferera Swan:

When discussing the fact that neurons are not only found in the brain but also the heart as well as every organ, the question of why so many adoptees actually suffer from ‘unexplained, random’ ailments and illnesses must be explored. Four different medical doctors and five therapists later, I had no answers for my personal experience until the trauma of relinquishment was delved into. Many don’t realize the magnitude of affects the removal of an infant from its mother has on an adoptee – and birth mother – for a lifetime not just psychologically, but physiologically.
Stay curious.

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Ferea Swan 2018

Another Adoptee on National Adoption Awareness Month 2018

On November 8, 2018November 7, 2018 By legitimatebastardIn Adoptees' Civil Rights, Adoption Loss, Adoption Trauma2 Comments

National Adoption Awareness Month 2018 —

Not every adoption is happy. Even happy adoptions are traumatic.

Announcing the Kindle World Release of FORBIDDEN FAMILY: My Life as an Adoptee Duped By Adoption

On July 18, 2015July 18, 2015 By legitimatebastardIn Adoptee Birth Certificates, Adoptee's Conflicting Emotions, Adoptees' Civil Rights, Adoption Psychology, Adoption Reunions are Ongoing, Adoption Trauma, Adoptive Parents, Death and Dying, Family Preservation, Family Systems, Final Order of Adoption, Natural Fathers, Natural Mothers, Original Birth Certificate, Real Parents, Sealed Adoption Records

I am thrilled to announce the Kindle edition world release of my memoir, Forbidden Family: My Life as an Adoptee Duped by Adoption on Saturday July 18, 2015.

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Raised as an only child of my adoptive parents, when I turned 18 in 1974, I was found by full-blood siblings I was never supposed to know. Less than a year later, I joined Adoptees’ Liberty Movement Association and began researching and writing about adoption. All the while, my adoptive family and natural family opposed my activism.

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Please join me in my journey by picking up your copy of Forbidden Family: My Life as an Adoptee Duped by Adoption today at one of the Kindle online stores listed below.

Thank you,

Joan Mary Wheeler
Born as
Doris Michol Sippel

“The death of my married mother when I was an infant led to my closed adoption. Eighteen years later, I was found by family I was never supposed to know.”