In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Lorah Gerald, an adoptee, an intuitive, a Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and writer. Lorah hopes to help others heal their trauma, adopted or not, by sharing her lived experiences as an adoptee as well as her education in breath work, energy healing and natural intuitive abilities.
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TIME STAMPS:
1:33 Holding feelings about adoption trauma inside v. healing in community
2:49 Lorah’s adoption story as a Baby Scoop Era domestic adoptee
4:40 A better life or just a different life?
6:40 What Beth was told about adoption trauma when she adopted Joey
8:32 What Lorah’s adoptive parents knew about adoption trauma
9:20 How Lorah acted out as a teen and how she avoided addiction
10:38 Lorah’s reunion story
15:34 Lorah’s mother’s forced hysterectomy
16:46 Lorah’s reaction to her adoption story as told by her parents
20:28 Lorah’s reunion story, continued
26:40 Lorah’s healing path - yoga, reiki, reading, etc.
28:35 Kundalini yoga & processing trauma through our bodies
34:55 Other physical trauma-healing tools that Lorah uses
39:03 Adoptee-only yoga sessions
41:43 How yoga has helped Lorah with trauma and well-being
