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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

Adoptee Bodywork & Reiki: Meet Diane Maury, LMT, with Dr. Liz DeBetta | Un-M-Othered Retreat

For many adoptees, our earliest experience of touch was tangled up with separation. So what does it look like to let the body be held again, with care, consent, and choice? In this episode, Dr. Liz DeBetta and I introduce the newest member of the Un-M-Othered retreat team: Diane Maury, LMT, adoptee, licensed massage therapist, reiki practitioner, and founder of Rooted River Wellness. Diane shares her adoption story: foster care, a confidential intermediary search, DNA discoveries, and the sec...

56 MIN

Black-Market Baby: Patricia Knight Meyer on Wonderland, a Made-Up Birthday, and Learning Love Doesn’t Have to Mean Loss

In 1970, outside a Houston hospital, a couple pulled up to a curb and drove away with a newborn. No agency. No judge. No paperwork. That baby was Patricia Knight Meyer. Julie and Patricia met in person at Adoption: The Making of Me in Austin this April, squealing and hugging like old friends after years of finding each other online. Patricia’s memoir, Wonderland: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption, is Julie’s favorite adoptee memoir she has ever read. In this conversation, they go underneath t...

63 MIN

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