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Podcast: Mind Your Own Karma - Beyond The Bandage
Episode: S3E16 - MONIQUE PANGARI, ADOPTEE & CERTIFIED TRAUMA PSYCHOTHERAPIST DISCUSSES HER ADOPTION JOURNEY
Description: Monique Pangari was born in Australia in 1972 at the height of the ‘Forced Adoption Era.’ Relinquished at birth and adopted at 6 weeks of age, she grew up in a family with two older adopted siblings.
As a result of this complex experience, along with the rollercoaster of FOUR ‘search and reunion’ journeys,
early pregnancy and parenting, and now estrangement from multiple family members, she has now ‘come out of the closet’ (again) to talk about the detrimental impacts of relinquishment.
Monique was driven to study psychology and psychotherapy to try to make...