My biggest gift is my past. Yours can be too.
Simon Benn host of
Thriving Adoptees Podcast
said on 10/19/23:
“This has to be one of the most powerful and empowering episodes ever to air on this podcast.”
—Simon Benn
Memoir: coming March 21, 2024
Adopted and raised during Alaska’s lawless 1970s oil-boom era, Monica grows up amid trauma and dysfunction. As a teen, she rebels into delinquency. When Monica is raped and becomes pregnant, her religious parents pushed her into giving up her baby—only known blood relative—for adoption. These events kick off a decades-long search for family and belonging. Thread by thread, she weaves together the truth of her identity, pulled by yearning for her daughter and the mother who gave her away.
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I was the guest on the latest episode of the podcast Unraveling Adoption, an intentional space to delve into adoption's complexities together. In this 30-minute program I share about my story as an adoptee and a birth mother; and I reveal some of the things I've learned about myself through the process of writing my memoir, Practically Still a Virgin.