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Podcast: The One Inside: An Internal Family Systems (IFS) podcast
Episode: IFS and Adoptees with Kathy Mackechney
Description: On today's podcast I chat with Kathy Mackechney, who wrote a chapter in Altogether Us. Kathy is a relinquishee-adoptee whose purpose is helping other adoptees heal the burdens of having been relinquished, or removed, and adopted. She is a Level-3 trained, IFS-certified therapist and consultant wtih a private practice in Denver. We talk about: Helping adoptees feel heard and understood Shifting language from adoption-industry and adoptive-parent-centric perspective to language that centers the experience of the person who was relinquished, and therefore needed to be adopted- hence the term 'relinquishee' or 'survivor of infant-mother separation...