I was in my mid-30s when I plucked up the courage to ask my mum when she first met me…

Enough is enough. Adoption will not take my dignity. You will not take my dignity.

We are only truly alive if we are able to be honest - paraphrased from Anne Heffron

Show your support for ‘Giving Up Marty’ a new play about adoption and reunion by UK adoptee Karen Bartholomew

I grew up with articles like this, packed with not-so-subtle shaming of adoptees.

What Long Lost Family doesn’t tell us about adoption search and reunion - and beyond.

Where I get the extra support I need for adoption-related angst, aka the fluffy stuff like yoga, meditation and self-care podcasts.

The question I dread as an adoptee recently new to Ancestry.

My piece about my little sister published anonymously in the Guardian, Christmas 2015

Sometimes I just want to run riot. Tag a few bios on Facebook! Knock on my grandparents’ door! Change my name! But am I “allowed”?’

Her own name, her own room and some goddamn support with attachment and adoption trauma.

Guest blog on identity, the “trove” project, and why it’s important for adoptees and care experienced children to keep mementos and memories safe…

Please, please forgive me if I cheer you on from a distance…

“…the weights are tipped I’m sad to say and hopeful love and best intentions are often drowned.”

Have you noticed it’s trendy to joke about your children being taken away?

A letter to my biological grandmother, who didn’t know she had a granddaughter given up for adoption…

Can we all be reduced to the label of hero, victim or devil? My thoughts on Sophie’s show…

A short reflection on adoption reunion and how it’s felt since coming out of the fog…

How do I explain just how much all this adoption "stuff" has taken over my life in the last year? 

A wonderful experience with a small group of UK adoptees, including healing yoga and a safe space for sharing stories...