The Adoption Files

Ande Stanley

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The Adoption files seeks to provide a place for adoptees and allies to discuss the laws preventing adoptees from accessing their identities, and the emotional and physical challenges adoptees face in the process of dealing with the obstacles we face. We recognize the need to expose the problematic aspects of the adoption industry and the narrative they perpetuate. We will not only talk about the laws and the challenges they create, but also the ways that the mythology around adoption impacts the way we move through our lives, as adopted people and as mothers and other family members.

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Recent episodes

  • Adoption Abolition: A ConversationOct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
  • Quality Counts: Early Connections and Big Questions; continuing the conversation on adoption and spiritual traumaSep 28, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
  • Holding Space: Healing in RelationshipSep 21, 2026 · 56 min
  • Turning Towards the Pain: a Continuing Conversation on Spiritual Trauma and AdoptionSep 14, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
  • Healing, Recovery, Remaking: Which makes sense for you?Sep 7, 2026 · 56 min
  • Gods will or?Aug 31, 2026 · 48 min
  • I am terrible at titles. Continuing the conversation about spiritual trauma as people impacted by adoptionAug 24, 2026 · 49 min
  • Feel the Feelings: continuing our conversation on spiritual traumaAug 18, 2026 · 49 min
  • How to use Spirituality as a Defense against Discomfort: Spiritual BypassingJul 26, 2026 · 56 min
  • Your Feelings Matter: the Core Emotions and Spiritual TraumaJul 22, 2026 · 59 min

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