Most people don’t know the difference. — I’m no idiot, I know this article won’t put a dent in the current narrative because it puts adoptive parents on a pedestal at the expense of the child. Adoptees around the world continue to endure socioemotional abuse on a daily basis, we fight for our dignity, rights and records…

An Adoptee Spiritual, Phenomenological, and Neurological Perspective To all the adoptees that bring light into this world through your trauma. You are special! Shane Bouel Abstract In Adoption, there is considerable controversy, both within and outside the field of psychiatry & matriarchy, regarding the boundaries of normal sadness, grief and clinical…

To purposefully create traumatised children for sale. — Apologies, my mental health due to adoption trauma has taken me offline over the past few months. Not to mention the added stress of my wife's mother’s passing and my stepdaughter having a brain operation. It’s eerily reminiscent of my son’s brain tumour 10 years ago. I can feel the…

Societies Antisocial Ignorance of Dissociative Identity Disorder — Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! The 1999 film Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, was received as one of the most controversial films of the year and has since gained strong cult popularity. The first line sets the dark mood for the entirety of the film. …

A boyhood Journey towards truth, self-discovery and acceptance. — After watching the above-titled movie twice, tonight, I reminded myself of the times I used to dream of what it would be like to be a child of a rock star? From the usual point of reference as a wish. We’ve all done it, haven’t we? From a place of…

There, I said it! But how can we heal it? — Do I need to say any more? Well, you’re here now. If you’ve gotten passed the title, you aren’t like the regular person that blindly blows past the issues that adoption raises. For that, I thank you.

Russia’s Mass Child Trafficking — Russia to fast-track adoptions of ‘forcibly deported’ Ukrainian children. According to various sources, the Russian occupiers have already forcibly removed 121,000 Ukrainian children. These are orphans and those who still have parents. The adoptee community saw this coming. Here’s an article I wrote days before the Russia — Ukraine war commenced. Russia — Ukraine War Orphans. What’s next? Where is the world heading?medium.com

She didn’t know what to throw away or what to keep! “Brenda’s Got a Baby” is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now (1991). The song was first released as a promotional CD single a month prior to the album’s release and then, in February…

Loss and Grief are the fundamental experiences of adoption. — The study of birth and death as existential transitions, comparing and contrasting these two life events from a ritual and embodied perspective, can reveal novel insights into spirituality. Firstly the importance of studying birth and death from an embodied, ritualized and symbolic perspective relates to several observations. …