Join co-hosts and adoption coaches, Sally Ankerfelt and Gayle Swift, both adoptive parents, for another enlightening discussion with this month's special guest, Elizabeth Barbour. Elizabeth brings a lot of experience to the table both as an adoptee reunited with her birth family and as an adoptive mom. Tune in to hear Elizabeth's wisdom and lived experience navigating reuniting with her birth family and parenting as an adoptive mom.

Elizabeth Barbour is an adopted person living in reunion with her birth family and 11(!) siblings as well as an adoptive mom. She’s the author of the best selling and award winning, Sacred Celebrations: Designing Rituals to Navigate Life's Milestone Transitions and Smart Self-Care for Busy Women and co-author of Faces of Grief: Stories of Putting the Pieces Back Together. She’s presently writing her next book about building thriving relationships in adoption reunion, something she's expereinced joyfully in her own life and excited to share with others.

Elizabeth is also a speaker, life and business coach, and retreat leader focused on women's wellness and life/work balance for professional women. An entrepreneur for 25 years and a mom for 14, Elizabeth understands all too well the necessity for professional women to employ smart self-care strategies to increase their success and maintain their sanity at the same time!

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Join co-hosts and adoption coaches, Sharon Butler-Obazee (an adopted person) and Sally Ankerfelt (an adoptive parent) for another lively discussion about Father's Day. First aired in June of 2024, we thought we should bring these three amzing men back in honor of Father's Day 2025. Being a dad in adoption can be complicated! Tune in to hear an adoptee, birth dad, and adoptive father (also an adoption professional) get real as they discuss the joys and the challenges of being a father in adoption.

Thank you to our special guests, adoptive father, Truong Chinh Duong; birth/first father, Thomas Cast; and Anthony Hynes, Ph.d., an adoptee and adoption professional with the Center for Adoption Support and Education and is an Adoption Training and Content Development Specialist. Their willingness to share their wisdom and experience is greatly appreciated.

This is a rebroadcast of last year's Mother's Day episode honoring and celebrating this special day for mothers. Listen to birth mothers, adoptees, and an adoptive dad share heartfelt feelings and maybe even some complicated thoughts about mothers. Join hosts, adoptive parent, Sally Ankerfelt and Adopted Person, Sharon Butler-Obazee, as they acknowledge not only Mother's Day on May 11 but also honor and celebrate Birth Mother's Day, on the Saturday before -- this year, May 10.

As always, your hosts seek to bring a tri-spective view that encompasses the adoption experience of those who have been adopted, adoptive parents, and birth mothers. It's ADOPTION MATTERS: Real People, Real Life, Real Talk!