Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive

Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive

Let's thrive. Thriving Adoptees helps adoptees thrive. What does thriving mean to you? Healing? Post Traumatic Growth? Evolving? Listen in as we explore what's helped adoptees do all that... Email me at simon@thrivingadoptees.com if you'd like to have a chat about being a guest on the show. There have been 113,000 downloads of the show since launch in April 2021.

Living From Love With Carmen Durfey
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 13, 2026
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Living From Love With Carmen Durfey

Where are you living from? So many of us spend so much of our living from fear, worry and anxiety. How does this change? Listen in as adoptee Carmen shares her insights into living differently. Living from love.

Control With Tina Miller
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 12, 2026
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Control With Tina Miller

How much control do we have? How does humility help us see control more clearly? Adoptive mother and adoption professional Tina shares what she'd have done differently if she'd had a time machine including.. reading the Connected Child by Karyn Purvis.

Connection With Lenette Serlo
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 11, 2026
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Connection With Lenette Serlo

Connection. We all want don't we? And we want our kids to feel connected to. How well are parents connected with us can influence how we connect with our kids. Listen in as adoptive mother of 4 Lenette talks about connection, raising kids with prenatal opioid and substance exposure and more...

Nothing Wrong With Me With Sheila Jaffe
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 08, 2026
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Nothing Wrong With Me With Sheila Jaffe

So many of us adoptees start believing there's something wrong with us it's embedded deep in our psyche. Until it comes to the surface and starts to diminish - sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly - often on the back of getting hold of new information. Validation from fellow adoptees helps greatly. T...

Epiphanies With Neb Cross
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 07, 2026
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Epiphanies With Neb Cross

Is unprocessed grief eating you up? It did for Neb. But how on earth can a 2 year old handle the death of their mother? Neb's challenges continued...moving from home to a children's home and then a new home with an American family 9000 miles away from his homeland - Ethiopia. Neb blamed God, until h...

Grounded With Jami Kaeb
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 06, 2026
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Grounded With Jami Kaeb

Do you feel grounded? All the time? Some of the time? Life tests our grounding daily. So what helps us hold our ground more often and find it more quickly when we've lost it? Listen in as mom of eight and leader Jami talks grounding, faith and much more. Deep and profound. Empowering.

Advocating For Adoptees With Rachael Maskell, MP
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 05, 2026
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Advocating For Adoptees With Rachael Maskell, MP

What can we learn about from someone who advocates for us from within the system? What life is really like for today's young adoptees? Listen in as Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central shares her insights and vital research.

Connection & Fundamental Wholeness With Anna Jinja & Donna Pope
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveMay 04, 2026
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Connection & Fundamental Wholeness With Anna Jinja & Donna Pope

What if we are whole despite all that's happened to us? How does connection help us heal? Listen in as Anna, Donna and I dive deep into two profound questions....

Unconditional Love With Jay Barbanel
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveApril 28, 2026
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Unconditional Love With Jay Barbanel

Unconditional Love. We only crave it because we don't feel it. Trauma gets in the way. Listen in as Jay, adopted from Costa Rica at 3 shares his journey to find it through therapy, soul searching and connection.

Fundamental Wholeness - Jude interviews Simon
Thriving Adoptees - Let's ThriveApril 22, 2026
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Fundamental Wholeness - Jude interviews Simon

What is Fundamental Wholeness? How does seeing it transform our lives for the better? Listen in as my friend and past guest Jude Hung interviews me about this fresh and hopeful paradigm.