Today’s guest is Julian Washio-Collette, a writer and monastic spiritual seeker, whose story includes the rarity of being relinquished and adopted twice. Julian shares what he hears when someone says the term “forever family”, how building community was difficult here when seemingly no one else has had the same experience of being a double-adoptee, and we ponder what the spiritual implications of adoption may mean.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Peregrine Adoptee: Wandering Reflections on a Life in Fragments
https://peregrineadoptee.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/a-mere-infant-thoughts-for-a-new-adoptive-parent/
The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages that Accompany the Loss of Love by Susan Anderson

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