Guest host Lisette Austin speaks with Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, actor, yoga teacher, Native adoptee, and subject of the documentary, Daughter of Lost Bird. Kendra shares her powerful adoption and reunion story, about navigating identity issues while claiming her cultural heritage, and what it was like to reunite with her biological mother, family, and community as part of filming a documentary. Kendra also talks about the painful and abusive U.S. policies around Native children and adoption, how she practices self-care while integrating the reality of generational and historical trauma into her personal story, and much more.

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Recommended Resources

Daughter of a Lost Bird - Documentary - www.daughterofalostbird.com
Dawnland - Documentary - upstanderproject.org/dawnland
Blood Memory - Documentary - https://www.bloodmemorydoc.com
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Try out an embodiment practice for healing work

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