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A Transracial Adoptee's Truth About Family, Identity, and Belonging
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Dr. Abigail Hasberry lived two versions of her adoption story: the one her parents told her, and the one she discovered later. As a Black child raised in a white Irish Catholic family, she spent her childhood moving from country to country, watching Black culture through a TV screen she couldn't step into. In this episode of Voices of Adoption, hosts Donna Pope and Nathan Gwilliam sit down with Dr. Hasberry, a therapist specializing in adoption trauma, who reveals why adoptive parents must fall in love with their child's culture before they fall in love with the child, and what happens when they don't. She breaks down the hidden attachment issues that plague nearly every adoptee, explains why traditional therapy often fails transracial adoptees, and shares the breakthrough brain spotting technique that finally helped her process decades of unresolved trauma. This conversation will change how you think about adoption, identity, and what it really means to give a child a home.
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