Unraveling Adoption

In this week's Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Emma Stevens, whose new memoir The Gathering Place: An Adoptee's Story was written during her treatment with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR has helped her deal with her adoption trauma and other developmental trauma from her troubled childhood. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepu...

In this week's Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Boston musician Spencer LaJoye, who identifies their gender as non-binary. They came out as bisexual in college and years later came out as non-binary, all within Christian communities. Beth became aware of Spencer when she heard their song "Plowshare Prayer," a unique prayer for all those against whom prayer has been used as a sword. The song has...

In this week's Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with transformational healer Ellen Newhouse, who uses Acupuncture, Sound Healing, and Energy Medicine in her private practice.  This episode focuses on sound healing as a way to transform negative emotions, open up the heart, connect with our loved ones, and create more compassion in the world. Ellen leads Beth in several sound healing exercises in the...

In this week's Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Kaitlyn Vosburg who is an advocate for people with DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. She has a TikTok account called "apartofeight" where she shares real life scenes from her own journey with DID. Kaitlyn sheds light on a topic that isn't discussed much, but which affects 1% of the population. ==...

In this week's episode, Beth interviews her parent coach, Heather Ross, who recently lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning. Clips of Heather's previous podcast episodes with her daughter are heard throughout this episode. RESOURCES: How to find Heather: Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents of Addicted Teens: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/ Heather's Living With Addiction podcast: https://an...

In this week's episode we will dive into a wonderfully effective and low-tech healing modality called EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique - or it's sometimes just called Tapping. Beth's guest is Andy Bryce, one of 26 remaining Founding EFT Masters in the world. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques, which combines psychology and acupuncture. Andy takes Beth through a mini EFT session as part o...

In this week's episode you will hear another family's story of adolescent addiction and recovery. Dawn McCord's son Carson had a tumultuous adolescence but he found recovery through wilderness therapy. Dawn's new memoir "Chasing Carson: A Family's Journey through Adolescence, Addiction and Recovery ," provides an honest account of their whole family's healing process. =============== 💌 Sign up fo...

This week's episode is about All The Diversities. Beth interviews Lyric Holmans, a non-binary, autistic self-advocate who runs the blog and Facebook page "The Neurodivergent Rebel" plus their company Neurodivergent Consulting. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hVIAVX =============== RESOURCES: How to find Lyric: Website: https://neurodivergentrebel...

In this week's Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with an adult adoptee, Rebecca Autumn Sansom, who recently created an adoption documentary called Reckoning with the Primal Wound, a film that juxtaposes her own powerful adoption story with the wisdom of Nancy Verrier, who wrote The Primal Wound , the book that is considered to be the adoptee's bible. RESOURCES: Information about Reckoning with the Pri...

In this week's Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with podcaster, motivational speaker, and writer Lona (LC) Currie. LC has recovered from long-term drug and alcohol misuse, and after he became stable as a sober person, he transitioned to his true gender. He was considered a "lost cause" by many, but now he is openly sharing his addiction experience to give others hope that recovery is always possible....

In this week's episode, we're sharing an interview Beth had on another mom's podcast recently: Rebecca Greene's The Whinypaluza Podcast. Here are some of the topics we cover: - Why being a reactive parent isn't helpful during times of stress. - How teens can easily hide their drug use from their parents. - What kinds of signs you should be looking for in your teenage children. - How excessive drug...

In this episode, Beth learns about hypnotherapy with Pamela Topjian from Breakthrough Hypnotherapy. She talks about her own healing path from childhood trauma, how she got into hypnotherapy, and how hypnotherapy can help create more peace and heal trauma for teens and parents. Joey checks in at the end of this episode, too. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://e...

In this episode, Beth talks with learning disabilities specialist Jill Stowell from Stowell Learning Center. She talks about how early childhood affects a person's ability to learn, and she gives great ideas to parents that will help them advocate for their child and find solutions for their learning challenges. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hV...

Emily Jaworski Koriath talks with Beth about the intersection between her career as a singer and voice teacher, her own trauma, and Somatic Experiencing, a body-centered method of healing trauma that she has found to be extremely effective for herself and others. =============== Emily Jaworski Koriath's Information: Emily's Website : https://www.emilyjaworskikoriath.com/   Other things mentioned i...

In this episode, Beth talks with the founder of Pride & Joy Foundation, Elena Joy Thurston, about her personal story as a lesbian mom, and about how our LGBTQ+ youth are doing. She gives practical advice for parents to help their LGBTQ+ kids. Her foundation offers quarterly parent workshops, a queer writing project, diversity consulting, and a book about LGBTQ+ people in business. Elena Joy is a p...

Recently, Joey was diagnosed with CHS, and we thought the world needed to know about this disorder. Hugh Dascbach is a friend's husband who also has CHS, and in this episode, he and I talk about the symptoms, the recovery, and the need to get the word out about it. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hVIAVX =============== Safe Home is created by Jos...

In this episode of Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with a childhood friend Brenda Bash Cooper about her own adoption experience and how it informs her work with traumatized crime victims at her job. She and Joey -  and countless other adopted people - share that deep-down feeling of unworthiness. In her experience, Brenda attributes that feeling to her relinquishment trauma. Whether your family is t...

In this Safe Home episode, Beth discusses the tough topic of bullying with a long-time friend of hers, Maria Lundstroem Lopez, who was regularly beaten and treated horribly in elementary school. Beth's son Joey was also bullied with racist microaggressions throughout his whole school journey. Maria talks about how these wounds from being bullied have stuck with her until adulthood and gives some i...

In this episode, Beth talks with Casie Fariello, who is launching a new comprehensive online parent resource on January 10, 2022 called Other Parents Like Me. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hVIAVX =============== Safe Home is created by Joseph Nakao and his moms Beth Syverson and Jan Mabie Music written and performed by Joseph Nakao Cover art by...

In this episode, Joey joins Beth to talk about his NEW JOB!  It's his first real job and he's found something he really loves to do. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hVIAVX =============== Safe Home is created by Joseph Nakao and his moms Beth Syverson and Jan Mabie Music written and performed by Joseph Nakao Cover art by Joseph Nakao, photo by Be...

In this episode, Beth hears the story of Rev. Jane Davis, who is in recovery from alcohol addiction. She shares some alternative recovery treatment solutions she found besides the typical 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous model. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hVIAVX =============== Resources that Jane mentions during the podcast: Oxford House - https...

Joey returns to the podcast for this episode about his experiences in psych hospitals due to suicidal ideation. Joey and Beth talk about the positive things about being hospitalized, and also some of the not-so-pleasant parts. They are continuing their work of de-stigmatizing mental illness and addiction through this important episode. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email li...

In this episode, Beth chats with Sharon Loeschen, LCSW, about her decades of experience as a therapist and community activist. Her compassionate voice encourages us all to find our own healing path, and she gives specific advice about how parents can their kids survive and thrive through adolescence. ======================================= Sharon Loeschen's books: Enriching Your Relationship with...

Beth hears the story of Stan DeWitt, an adult adoptee who has recently been reunited with his birth family. Stan looks back on his adolescence and talks about how adoption has affected his life. This is a happy story full of love, self-awareness, acceptance, and coincidences that are almost too wild to believe. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hVI...

Joey rejoins the podcast for this special episode about his relapse. In his chat with Beth, he offers a boots-on-the-ground perspective about what caused his relapse, how things are going for him, and what he sees his future holding for him. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: http://eepurl.com/hVIAVX =============== Safe Home is created by Joseph Nakao and his moms B...