Adoptee Media
Check out the top PAC picks for books, podcasts, and media created by adoptees and/or relating to the adoptee experience.
01 Let Us Be Greater:
A Gentle, Guided Path to Healing for Adoptees
Michelle Madrid
Author Michelle Madrid has been affected by adoption in more than a few ways. She is a former foster youth and an international adoptee, and she later became an adoptive parent and adoptee-empowerment coach. This book lovingly guides readers toward healing using exercises, practices, meditations, affirmations, and personal stories of strength and vulnerability. If you're looking for practical ways to better understand yourself and your pain, allow the healing to start here.
To purchase a copy of Let Us Be Greater, please click here.
02 Through Adopted Eyes:
A Collection of Memoirs From Adoptees
Elena S. Hall
For adoptees searching for stories and words that mirror their experiences, this captivating memoir collection offers insightful, supportive, and emotional anecdotes from adoptees of various backgrounds. Each and every adoptee perspective grants readers the opportunity to examine their self-identities, check their hidden biases, and thoroughly open their minds. Stunning and poignant, these stories are sure to enthrall and comfort readers struggling with adoption issues. Through Adopted Eyes can be purchased by clicking here.
03 Closure
Angela Tucker
Closure is wholly exceptional. Told through the incredible Angela Tucker, this documentary highlights the highs and lows that were experienced during her two-year search to locate birth family and develop a sense of self-identity. As a transracial adoptee, Angela particularly struggled with racial identity throughout her formative years, especially in relation to her adoptive family. These raw emotions led her on a soul-stirring journey that would transform her entire life; she dutifully responded to the callings to discover her inner self-identity and create an inspiring documentary, book, and even a podcast! To watch Closure, please click here.
04 Sing Me A Lullaby
Tiffany Hsiung
Sing Me A Lullaby follows a young woman named Tiffany as she embarks on an uncertain journey to find her mother's birth parents in Taiwan. 40 years after her separation and subsequent adoption, Tiffany's mother Ru Wen still feels a longing for the birth family that she'd been taken from at five years old. With just two faded names written onto an old napkin, Tiffany spends 14 years searching for the answers, family, and connections that she and her mother had been yearning for. To quote Tiffany Hsiung herself, "this is a story about recovering familial history, healing inherited pain, and understanding that love comes in many forms." To watch Sing Me A Lullaby, please click here.
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05 Adoptees On
To listen to this podcast, click here.
On this special podcast, adult adoptees recount their personal stories of search, reunion, rejection, and more. These stories are told with full transparency, conveying the speaker's most vulnerable thoughts, experiences, and emotions. Each episode features a different adoptee story, each so exclusive and individual, yet all of which relate to the adoptee experience. Visit the link above to listen now.
06 Adoption: The Making of Me
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Through the voices of two adult adoptees with very different life experiences, this podcast follows Sarah and Louise as they come out of the 'fog' and work to reframe the narrative around adoption. The pair dive into adoptee book reflections, share personal anecdotes, promote adoptee publications, and even invite guests to be interviewed. If a light-hearted but emotional podcast is what you're looking for, Sarah and Louise are sure to provide. Visit the link above to listen now.
07 Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive
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This podcast, created by Simon Benn, uplifts adoptee stories, offers healing solutions, and explains adoption issues at length. Do you wonder about the life you could've lived? Do you believe that adoptees assume inherent challenges directly associated with their adoption? If you're struggling with questions about your identity or are looking for self-improvement techniques, check out this podcast at the link above.
08 The Adoptee Next Door
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Angela Tucker proves that she really can do it all; this podcast is a beautifully devastating account of a transracial adoptee searching for sense of self. In bold fashion, Tucker lifts the veil over listeners' eyes (or ears?) by offering honest perspectives that challenge the current adoption system and what we believe about ourselves. Tune in to The Adoptee Next Door by visiting the link above.