List: Severance and Reclamation: The Adoptee’s Journey in Reverse | Curated by Shane Bouel

Feb 11, 2025
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Severance and Reclamation: The Adoptee’s Journey in ReverseThis 20-part series unravels the truth of adoption—not from the surface, but from the final realization back to the moment of severance. Loss, identity, silence, rage, and reclamation—each piece builds toward the truth adoption was never meant to reveal.
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Enduring the Severance:Living in the Wake of a Life Rewritten
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The Falling – Severed:A 20-part Unraveling of Adoption’s Untold Truths in Reverse
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#20 The Significance, Philosophy, and Pervasive Experience of the Adoptee JourneyTo be an adoptee is to carry a paradox.
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#19 Let History Tell The Truth:Adoptees as the Most Prolific Wayfarers of Light
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#18 The Timeline of Transformation:How Humanity Awakens from Existential Severance
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#17. The Prophecy of the Future:What Comes After the Severance Ends
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#16 How Will Humanity Change?The Slow Collapse of the Old World & the Emergence of the New
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#15 Secretly Shifting the Collective ConsciousnessThe world refuses to confront the full reality of existential severance.
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#14 What Now? The Path Beyond Existential Severance.Once the cycle of existential denial is seen for what it is, once the severance is named and no longer hidden, there is an unavoidable…
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#13 The Cycles of the Existential Denial of Existential Severance
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#12 The Existential Denial of Existential Severance
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#11 The Vanishing Point of Existential SeveranceThe wound no one remembers, yet no one ever escapes.
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Between Two Halves — The Breaking PointWhen the Shelter of Family Is Lost
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#10 The Gravity of Loss: An Adoptee’s Descent Through the ChakrasA First-Person Experience
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#9 The Truth Will Set You Free — But First, It Will Shatter YouAdoptees are told many things about our own lives. We are told we were chosen, rescued, given a better life. We are told to be grateful…
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#8 Breaking the Cycle of Existential DenialThe truth will not disappear just because others refuse to see it.
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#7 The Adoptee’s Choice:To Speak or Stay Silent
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#6 The Line Between Grief and Rage.When the Weight of Severance Becomes Unbearable
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#5 The First Betrayal.When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
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#4 The Moment of SeveranceWhat It Means to Be Taken
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