An Interview with Author Nicole Chung

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Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know, has done it again with another wonderful memoir about growing up as a transracial adoptee and then losing both her adoptive parents. A Living Remedy is a story about family love and loss, regardless of how the family is formed.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Family love. 
  • You were well, if not always perfectly, loved.
  • You were temperamentally different from your parents, especially your dad. This may be more common in adoption. How did these differences impact you growing up?
  • Things my mom sent me, I sent my mom, my mom gave me. 
• Growing out of the socioeconomic level you were raised in.
  • Your mother thought you were ashamed of them. 
• What is middle class?
  • There is a big difference between being working class and middle class.
  • “Our “broke” bore no resemblance to my parent's “broke.” …We always had options.
• The impact of lack of money on health.
• Impact of Covid on families trying to care for loved ones.
• Your sister Cindy. 
  • Cindy wasn’t well-loved. How did she deal with the differences in her life vs your life?

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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.

Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

• Weekly podcasts
• Weekly articles/blog posts
• Resource pages on all aspects of family building