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Nicole Chung: Carrying Memories Alone
Jan 17, 2024
Author Nicole Chung discusses carrying her adoptive parents' memories alone and her search for her birth parents, which led to surprising discoveries. The podcast also explores processing grief through writing and poetry, transformative shifts following loss, reflections on adoption and searching for birth family, and the purpose of pain and grief.
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- Carrying the memories of her adoptive parents alone made the speaker feel isolated and disconnected from her childhood self.
- Adoption has a profound impact on identity, as the speaker grapples with the complexities of connecting to both adoptive and birth families.
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The Experience of Buried Grief
The speaker discusses their personal journey of realizing they had buried their grief and the impact it had on their emotions and personal growth. They explore the process of facing buried grief and learning to cope with it in healthy ways.
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