Healing From Within with Sheryl Glick

Kimberly Smythe author of Letting Go Again which shares her reunion with her daughter Kelcey, the trauma of giving up her child 18 years previously and the emotionally fraught efforts to reconnect once they were reunited. We will experience Kimberly’s reunion with her daughter Kelcey and witness the tender subject matter of adoption loss abandonment sorrow and discuss the stigma society attaches to the birth mother. Reunions and warm and fuzzy feelings like those seen on Oprah style adoption reunions often end in tears and long buried fears and sorrow which need to be addressed once the past is confronted. We will raise important questions about motherhood, the effects of adoption and our definition of family.