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Podcast: Thriving Adoptees - Let's Thrive
Episode: Shifting Our Perspective To Help Adopted Children Thrive With Joanna Ivey Adoptee & Adoptive Parent
Description: Joanna Ivey is an adoptee and adoptive parent and has been working in the field of adoption for 16 years. In her work with adoptive families, she meets couples/singles early in their adoption journey and is privileged to get to know them and learn about what brought them to adoption.She writes, “I often read hopeful adoptive parents write “We feel called to adopt,” and while I’m not here to judge anyone’s faith or how they came to choose adoption, I will share with you why this, as an adoptee, is problematic. If you’ve said the wor...