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We are a mission-driven social enterprise supporting adoptees, adoptive families, and professionals with adoptee-centered and therapuetically-informed support through consultancies, coaching, and training.

🪷 Many adoptees become incredibly skilled at fitting in. It can look like people-pleasing, perfectionism, staying quiet,...
17/07/2026

🪷 Many adoptees become incredibly skilled at fitting in. It can look like people-pleasing, perfectionism, staying quiet, or becoming whoever feels safest in the moment.

🪷 Those adaptations often make sense. They may have helped us maintain connection when connection felt uncertain.

🪷 But fitting in and belonging are not the same.

🪷 Belonging isn’t something you achieve by becoming more acceptable. It’s something you experience when you no longer have to hide parts of yourself to stay connected.

🪷 I’m curious. What does belonging feel like to you?

🌲 Adoptees, what if the hardest thing for some of us isn’t being left, but choosing to leave? 🌲 We can spend years stayi...
10/07/2026

🌲 Adoptees, what if the hardest thing for some of us isn’t being left, but choosing to leave?

🌲 We can spend years staying in relationships, faith communities, family roles, jobs, and ways of thinking that no longer fit because the feeling of leaving can mirror the feeling of being left.

🌲 So we stay, not always because we feel a sense of belonging there anymore, but because we’re trying to avoid the primal wound of being left.

🌲 But leaving isn’t the same as being left. One is agency and the other is a wound.

🌲 Adoptees, does this resonate with you? I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

🫶🏼 What a privilege it is to hear your stories. ✨🫶🏼 Every conversation reminds me that belonging, relationships, and com...
02/07/2026

🫶🏼 What a privilege it is to hear your stories. ✨

🫶🏼 Every conversation reminds me that belonging, relationships, and community are experienced in deeply personal ways.

🫶🏼 To every kinship and non-biological adoptee participating in this research, thank you for sharing your experiences with me.

🫶🏼 I carry your stories with deep gratitude and care. Your voice matters, and it is an honor to listen.

🌲 As adoptees, endings often carry more than the moment itself; they can awaken the echoes of our earliest separation. 🌲...
29/06/2026

🌲 As adoptees, endings often carry more than the moment itself; they can awaken the echoes of our earliest separation.

🌲 Yet nature offers a different story: one where endings are not failures, but rather transformation that creates new space.

🌲 Nothing is ever simply gone because nature does not order itself around permanence. It reabsorbs, reorders, reorganizes, and returns.

🌲 We don’t have to rush in our grief to believe that something meaningful can emerge from it too quickly.

🌲 We can take a lesson from natural order of things and return what needs to keep moving.

🌲 What have endings and nature taught you about becoming? We’d love to hear your reflections in the comments.

📢 Calling Kenyan adult adoptees living in Kenya, both kinship and formally adopted! 📢 We are running a research study Ke...
18/06/2026

📢 Calling Kenyan adult adoptees living in Kenya, both kinship and formally adopted!

📢 We are running a research study Kenya and would LOVE for you to join in.

📢 Our study focuses on the lived experiences of Kenyan adult adoptees and its impact on belonging, personal relationships, family dynamics, and connection to community.

👉🏼 The Essence Of Belonging: A Comparative Phenomenological Study Of Lived Experiences In Kinship Care Versus Formalized Adoption Among Young Adults In Nairobi County, Kenya.

📢 If this fits you or someone you know, click the link in our bio. You’ll complete the short questionnaire and have the chance to participate in a brief interview.

📢 Then, share it with a Kenyan adoptee you know who’d be interested!

🌊 Some chapters arrive unexpectedly, while others unfold over years. 🌊 The challenge is often not the transition itself,...
12/06/2026

🌊 Some chapters arrive unexpectedly, while others unfold over years.

🌊 The challenge is often not the transition itself, but our relationship with uncertainty.

🌊 Many adoptees know what it means to navigate shifting landscapes of identity, connection, and meaning.

🌊 There can be grief in what changes and gratitude for what remains. Both can exist at the same time. Let it.

Adoptive Parent Meet-Ups in Kenya are canceled for the rest of the year. We’re grateful for the time, reflection, and co...
02/06/2026

Adoptive Parent Meet-Ups in Kenya are canceled for the rest of the year. We’re grateful for the time, reflection, and connection shared in these gatherings. Thank you for being part of this space and for the care you’ve brought into it. 🩵

💼 An adoptive dad and advisory board member, Francis Katiba brings a perspective shaped by both family and purpose. 💼 He...
21/04/2026

💼 An adoptive dad and advisory board member, Francis Katiba brings a perspective shaped by both family and purpose.

💼 He approaches his work with a steady focus on building systems that last and serve people well.

💼 His presence on the advisory board reflects a commitment to thoughtful growth and grounded decision-making.

💼 He’s someone who pays attention to the bigger picture while staying anchored in what truly matters.

💼 We’re grateful for the clarity and care he brings into this space.

🫥 There’s a difference between being loving and being self-erasing where you disappear in the process. For a lot of adop...
17/04/2026

🫥 There’s a difference between being loving and being self-erasing where you disappear in the process. For a lot of adoptees, those two got blended or blurred early on.

🫥 When connection felt uncertain, of course a part of you learned how to protect it. Loyal. Effective. Maybe a little overcommitted.

🫥 The thing is, that part or strategy doesn’t automatically realize when the environment has changed.

🫥 So it still shows up, a bit cautious, saying, “maybe don’t risk it,” even when being known is actually possible.

🫥 The work is noticing and getting curious about that voice, building some trust with it, and slowly choosing when to follow it and when when not to.

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