Month: March 2011

Nine Months Gains and Losses [Audio]

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Me and Margie

In April of 2009, Margie and I presented a panel at the American Adoption Congress held in Cleveland, OH. The title of our presentation was Nine Months, Gains and Losses and focused comparing and contrasting the experiences of an expectant mother and an adoptive mother. I published notes from our session some time ago. They can be read here.

Today I am happy to announce that I was finally able to edit the audio from the session and have made it into a podcast. You can listen to it by clicking on the player below.  Please note that I have excluded the second half of the sessions that contained the Q & A portion of our discussion.  I received Margie’s permission to post this. I do not have the permission of those that attended our session to post their voices or questions. As such, I have excluded. I hope to transcribe the questions and put them in a later post. They were fantastic questions from an incredibly supportive audience.

For now, listen.  Thank you to Margie, aka Angry Adoptive Mom, for allowing me to do this.



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Adoption Healing Support Groups in CT

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An adoptee friend shared the link below with me and asked me to attend a support group meeting with her. I was vaguely aware of these support groups.  An individual contacted me a few weeks ago and asked me to attend. I was not able to at that time.  The group now comes to me from a closer, secondary source.  A sign? Perhaps.

No surprise most are directed at adoptive parents. Friend and I hope to attend in the future.

Sharing here for anyone that might be in CT and looking for such services/groups. I can not yet comment on quality. My past experience is that support groups can be much like church parishes. There are progressive, cool, supportive, comfortable ones grounded in reality and there are those that are radical in nature and expect you to wear a purple shoes, wear Nikes and drink koolaid. I am hoping these are the former. Until I attend, I cannot comment. I am sure I will once I have attended.

Connecticut Adoption Community Network

Adoption Support Group – Fairfield, CT

This group is open to Adoptees, Birthparents, and Adoptive Parents.  This group meets the first and third Thursday of every month at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 661 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT.

Adoption Healing Support Group – West Hartford, CT

This group is open to Adoptees, Birthparents, and Adoptive Parents.  Come join us for safe sharing in a supportive, understanding environment.  This group meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Universalist Church, 433 Fern Street, West Hartford, CT.  Please park at the back of the building and enter through the side glass door entrance.  Meeting is held in the Brown Program Center, Second Floor.