At one of the retreats that my daughter and I hosted recently, there was a clear theme and thread about adoption among our beautiful guests. Over the course of four days and as many evening sharing circles, we listened to the tender and inspiring stories of two adoptees, a woman who had given up a baby daughter for adoption, and several women whose parents or siblings had been adoptees.
The heartfelt sharing by the adoptees about yearning for the truth about their roots and the various ways they found it touched all of us. And then the woman who had given up a daughter at birth shared directly to the two women who had themselves been given up for adoption.
She spoke to them about how profoundly broken her heart was when she handed over her little baby girl, and she articulated how deeply she still loved that baby and thought about her every single day. Those three minutes of healing connection between three women were some of the most powerful moments I have ever experienced in a recovery circle.
Recovery is amazing. We do recover.
From gifting babies into adoption and being the babies who are adopted.