Being an adoptee is living in a world of people who breathe the same air as us—but don't understand what we have gone thru or why we feel the way we do about it.

It is experiencing deeply traumatic losses that others around us love to celebrate & expect us to feel grateful for.

It is a lifetime of feeling misunderstood & lost in a world that we are encouraged to embrace but never fully feels like our own.

It is hearing that we were given “a chance at a better life” while wanting nothing more than to experience the lives from which we were torn away...

...lives we may never have the opportunity to know.

It is the burden of carrying around too many words in our hearts that have felt so painfully unspeakable.

Adoption may "rock" for parents, but it has left us to exist with hearts that have been shattered into a million pieces.

Adoption has left adoptees with a lifetime of navigating our traumas, losses, identity struggles, and grief.

It has left us with a lifetime of feeling so irreparably broken and wanting so desperately to feel whole.