In this episode, Deidre and I discuss…

-Her personal journey as an adoptee
-How she found her birth parents
-Open and closed adoptions
-Adoption narratives, tropes, and clichés
-The “Baby Scoop” Era and how society decides who is a fit parent
-What “coming out of the fog” means for adoptee.
-Life lessons that she has taken away from her experience

The book she mentions is The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier.

Deidre Rodman Struck is a Brooklyn-based pianist, singer, and songwriter. She is a teaching artist for Carnegie Hall and has 3 jazz CDs out on the Sunnyside label. Her business, The Song Inside, launched in May 2021.

www.thesonginside.me

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