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 thatjuxtaposes 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.
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TIME STAMPS:
1:37 How Rebecca got the idea for the film
4:11 Adoptive parent’s perspectives
7:11 Film screening info for 2/26/22
8:51 How the film triggered Rebecca and others
19:22 Adolescence and identity crises
25:05 Is Rebecca anti-adoption?
26:47 How the birth of Rebecca’s child affected her
29:15 Money in the adoption industry
30:58 Does Rebecca ever feel infantilized as an adult adoptee?
41:15 Advice for dealing with Joey’s adoption pain
45:55 Renting the film its eventual release
47:28 Join the Adoption Army!
49:03 Blonde Records info
