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Illuminating the unseen impacts of adoption — for all who’ve been touched by it. The Resilience Project Podcast brings voice, visibility, and validation to the parts of adoption society rarely names - but all of us feel. Through a trauma-informed somatic lens, host Julie Brumley explores the lived experiences of the entire adoption constellation, with a tender emphasis on the adoptee experience. This podcast goes beyond storytelling into soul-telling. It offers embodied insight, compassionate education, and a path toward awareness, strength, and hope. Each episode invites listeners to understand adoption more deeply - not just with the mind, but with the nervous system - and to reconnect with the truth, identity, and belonging that were always yours to come home to.

Recent Episodes

Born Adopted: Paige Strickland on Searching Before the Internet, a Birth Father's Secret, and Telling Her Story in Verse

Paige Strickland was born in Ohio in 1961 and adopted as a baby, at a time when records were sealed and adoptees were expected to be grateful and never look back. She loved her adoptive family. She also grew up feeling like being adopted was a Scarlet Letter A, a secret she didn't tell her college friends, her coworkers, or anyone but the man she was about to marry. Then in 1987, a morning talk show changed everything. Paige learned her Ohio records were open, sent in two forms of ID and $20,...

52 MIN

Open Adoption Didn't Fix Everything: Adopted Connor on "Proof of Life" Visits, Belonging Beyond DNA, and the Business of Adoption

Resources & Links Mentioned Adopted Connor on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook. He answers DMs, not comments.PatreonThe Primal Wound by Nancy VerrierYou Don't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron (Connor's favorite adoption book)Poverty, by America by Matthew DesmondGretchen Sisson's book RelinquishedSchedule a call with Julie Register for the Un-M-Othered: A Revolution in Adoptee Healing retreatJoin The Refuge Membership Community hereJulie sits down with Connor Howe, known online as...

72 MIN

Damon Davis on 279 Adoptee Interviews, Two New Books, and Being "a Branch on Someone Else's Family Tree"

Resources & Links Mentioned - Who Am I Really? podcast - On all platforms - Who Am I Really?: An Adoptee Memoir - Updates on Damon's two forthcoming books - Adoption: The Making of Me - live event series Damon MCs; next stop Los Angeles, created by Sarah Reinhardt and Louise Brown - Big Happiness Documentary by Dahee Kim here Schedule a chat with Julie here Join The Refuge Membership Community here Julie sits down with Damon Davis - creator and host of the Who Am I Really? podcast, author...

78 MIN

Adopted Therapist Melissa LaCour on Why a "Good Adoption Story" Still Needs Healing

Resources & Links Mentioned - Get *Belonging: A Guided Journey Through Adoption Wounds & Wisdom* (available on Amazon and as a digital download) - here - Melissa on Instagram - Melissa's website (therapy services in Louisiana, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, and Minnesota) Register for Un-M-Othered: A Revolution in Adoptee Healing retreat here AND register to attend the NAAP Happy Hour where we will talk all about it here Register for the 4th iteration of Revelation LIVE here Connect with Jul...

82 MIN

Adoptive Mom Courtney White on Ending the "Grateful Adoptee" Story and Building a Parenting Tool That Actually Helps

Resources & Links Mentioned Get Courtney's self-regulation tool for foster/adoptive parents hereCourtney on Instagram Parenting Different websiteChat with Julie here Join The Refuge Membership Community here Foster and adoptive parents are so often set up to fail their kids - not because they don't love them, but because no one ever taught them how to regulate themselves first. In this episode, Julie sits down with Courtney White, an adoptive mom who, alongside her husband, welcomed ...

50 MIN