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Success Stories
Case Study #1 - Heather - An angry searching adoptee
Heather was a 20 something
adoptee, full of anger and desperate to find her birthmother when I met her. As a young, married mother she understood the bonds of motherhood but
was lost in her confusion about why she was unable to locate the woman who had borne her. Despite the fact that she has her
birthmother's name, Carolyn Johnson, she had been unsuccessful in locating her. (Read More)
Case Study #2 - Cathy - An adoptee facing her insecurities in
the face of no response
Cathy was approaching 40
years old when she found herself clinging to an increasingly slippery sense of self confidence. She had
located her birthmother more than four months before we started communicating and they had shared one magical phone call that
lasted for hours. Since then she had faced endless days of silence, hanging on
her mailman's arrival - waiting for the letter her birthmother had promised to send. With
each passing day Cathy felt another piece of her pride slip away with her hope of ever having a relationship with her birthmother.
(Read More)
Case Study #3 - Jill - A found birthmother confronting
separation anxiety issues
When I met Jill she had been in a good reunion for more than a year. Her college age daughter had found her and they had formed a close relationship with
barely a wrinkle of trouble over the preceding months. Christina was spending
numerous weeks over her summer vacation living with Jill and her husband. The summer flew by with them getting to know each other on a level that can only be achieved
with day to day contact. Their relationship deepened and clearly moved out of
the initial honeymoon stage as their confidence in one another grew. When Christina
moved out, to return to school, some surprisingly strong feelings developed that were difficult for Jill to confront. (Read More)
Case Study #4 - Sally - A found birthmother
moving into a reunion with a hesitant son
When Sally's 29 year old son contacted Catholic Charities needing
medical information it opened up a doorway to the past for her. For the next several months her past, present
and future blurred together in a whirlwind of emotion and memory. Although she had stayed in touch with the social worker
from the agency from the time her son was a month old, many aspects of that part of her life had been hidden away in the corners
of her mind. With that one phone call it seemed that every corner of her mind was suddenly illuminated. (Read More)
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