Healing The Primal Wound - An Adoption Catastrophe

Healing The Primal Wound - An Adoption Catastrophe

When I focus on the moment, on being here right now, I can heal, and even more, I can thrive.

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"You come to a fork in the road, and you choose between wallowing in self-pity and taking a good, hard look around you. I took the look and, with my Cyclops vision, saw how many of the people in my orbit were struggling, how many were bumping up against limits more daunting than mine, how many summoned a grace that gave me something to aspire to, something to emulate. This wasn’t as clear to me before, and I found myself thinking less about blindness in my future and more about the blindness in my past."
What I Learned When I Stabbed Myself 52 Times
Frank Bruni
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"The pain is great, but healing is possible. The road to healing is a long road, and we must all travel that road together: birthmother, adoptee and adoptive parents. We cannot change the past; it is a part of our history forever. To regret it is wasted energy, just as worrying about (rather than planning for) the future is wasted energy. Both deplete the strength we need to be in the here and now, to be truly present for one another...to acknowledge, understand and empathize with one another's feelings. Let us be present and let the healing begin."
Adoption: The Prinmal Wound - Effects of Separation from the Birthmother on Adopted Children
Nancy Verrier, M.A
https://adopta.hr/images/pdf/the_prim...

"Do I wish that my mother had not relinquished me? Yes. Do I wish this Primal Wound didn't exist in me? Of course. But it is here. And she did relinquish me. And I'll never know her. And she'll never know me, except for those brief moments we were together before we parted. And that's always going to be painful. And I will always love and miss her. But I've got right now."