The Absolute Love Podcast

Katie (Birth Mom) returns for a follow up episode! In our last episode, (S3 E3), Katie shared her story of being a teenager and placing her son for adoption. She went 50 years before sharing her story out loud. Many of her closest friends and family first heard about her experience as a birth mother via The Absolute Love podcast episode! After sharing her story, Katie FOUND HER SON! The two were r...

Meet Katie, who surrendered a child when she was just 16 years old. Now Katie reflects on who her son might be as a 50 year old adult. Katie would love to meet her son and know that he is OK after all of these years. She kept this secret most of her life now and has only recently given her pain words and allowed the universe to receive it. Katie shares with deep emotion how she recalls the experie...

Jess is a birth mom who placed a child for adoption...twice. Her first experience with adoption resulted in a closed adoption due to the adoptive parent's choice. Her second placement after an assault has led to an open adoption with her daughter's adoptive family. Jess is a Michigan native with part of her heart in Louisiana. She is an adoption professional, dog mom of 2, coffee and wine...

Courtney Tiera is an adult educator, speaker, birth mother and author. In this episode, we discuss: The concept of worthiness and how it influenced her unexpected pregnancy and her choice for adoption for her now adult son. Adoption as a parenting decision. Ambiguous loss in adoption. Choosing adoption as a black woman, and the nuances in the African American community. Courtney says, "I didn...

Lori joins us to share her experience as a Freshman in college finding out she was 22 weeks pregnant and ultimately choosing adoption for her daughter.  Lori's experience was driven by the grief and shame of "unwed motherhood" that dominated culturally during the time she experienced her unplanned pregnancy. She was offered only a closed relationship with her daughter as that was the norm at...

Tammy and her husband began as foster parents with no intention on adopting. That is, until they met their daughter Taylor (Season 2, Episode 3) and her 2 younger siblings. In this episode, Tammy re-lives the time in her life when she met Taylor and the highs and lows of parenting children from hard places. 

On Today's episode we are chatting with Paige who is an adoptive mother of two. Her children, both adopted transracially and domestically are in open adoptions with their Birth Parents. Paige is the owner or Love Grown Adoption Consulting and has a passion for educating families who are preparing to adopt. On this episode, we talk about:  Identity  Family and racial culture  Conspic...

Michelle is a Birth Mother and author of D elivered: My Harrowing Journey As A Birthmothe r , two journals for birth mothers , and two nonfiction books part of a Both/And series: Both Darkness and Light , and Both Then And Now . Her new book Both Cleaving and Cleaving will be released April 25, 2022! Michelle is also the author of this birth mom manifesto that is now being included in our SOLACE g...

Today’s guest is an incredible 21 year old adoptee, Taylor. Taylor was placed into foster care when she was 7 and adopted at age 12. In our conversation she shared about her life in an unstable home where drugs, alcohol and neglect forced her into the role of parent to her younger siblings, the fear and uncertainty during the years in foster care where she dreaded a possible return to her birth fa...

On this episode we story tell with Becca who adopted her son at birth through domestic adoption.  We chat about her about fertility treatments, deciding to adopt as a single woman in her 40’s, judgement and fear in the adoption process, openness, transracial adoption, and ongoing commitment to open mindedness and growth for herself, her child and her family. After adopting, Becca opened RG Co...

Kristin is a birth mother who placed her son for adoption 14 years ago. In this episode, Kirstin talks about her experience as a birth mother, working at an adoption attorney's office, and ultimately opening her business, Evermore Adoption Consultants, as a way to support those working through the unpredictable, and often overwhelming, adoption process. Kristin mentions the New Parents Academ...

One episode wasn't enough for Nicole's interview. Part 2 is a deep dive into the semantics of "throwing away versus giving away", postpartum depression, celebrating the joy of being a birth mother, what the cost of adoption really is, how to manage the awkwardness of adoption constellation dynamics, pumping and selling breastmilk (yes, birth moms can do that) and so SO MUCH more! In this...

Nicole is a Birth Mother to a 3 year old daughter whom she placed for adoption at birth. After becoming disillusioned with the private adoption world, Nicole found an adoptive family on her own and chose an independent adoption. She has a open relationship with her child's family, but has not seen her in person since placement. Nicole talks about her choice for her unexpected pregnancy and moving...

Lauren is a mother who chose adoption for her infant son Aidan nearly 18 years ago. When finding out she was pregnant unexpectedly, she was battling addiction and was parenting another young child. Together she and Aidan's father made an adoption plan, and he became the beloved boy of two families. In this episode, Lauren talks about what her relationship has been like with her son and his ad...

Khandy and Kenny are adoptive parents through private, domestic adoption. Kenny is an active duty Marine. Khandy is a registered nurse who became a stay at home Mom when their daughter came home.  In this episode, they talk about their "stork drop" adoption with their daughter, their true love for her Birth Mother and the ways they include her in their lives. They address the notion that blac...

Lauren is an intelligent, eloquent woman, wife and mother. She was also adopted as an infant in a closed adoption. On today's episode, we explore the complexities and questions that come with being adopted, even in the most adoption competent families. Now an adult with a child of her own, Lauren discusses how the curiosity factor of her biological identity and origin story has come and gone...

On todays episode we talk with Leah, a Birth mother who at 16 years old placed her daughter for adoption. Today they have a very open adoption and are continually working through the complexities of that relationship. We talk about the grief after visits with her daughter, the fear of birth parents, the need for community and support and how we can continue pushing growth in adoption practices by...

Arlene is a wife, a mother of 3 and the owner of a daycare. She was placed for adoption at birth. While she found her birth mother and relatives years ago, she has yet to meet them in person. Arlene shares her experience of being an adoptee and how a car accident and the birth of her children changed her perspective on her identity as an adoptee.

Mallory is a 29 year old birth mother who placed her son in an open adoption 8 years ago with a private, domestic adoption agency. During our conversation, Mallory talks about her choice for adoption, and her relationship with her son and his adoptive family. Mallory is a spunky, beautiful woman who invests her free time in her art, creating beautiful work with paint and clay, and is a lifelong gy...