Returning home after a transformative gathering like the BIPOC Adoptees VOICES Conference often brings a complex mix of gratitude and grief. While being together offers instant safety and shared understanding, saying goodbye forces us to navigate an opened faucet of long-suppressed emotion. My newest blog post explores the psychological and somatic reasons behind this post-event emotional fatigue. By looking closely at limbic resonance and the reality of disenfranchised grie

Explore the profound parallels between Moses, the Passover story and the adoptee experience. This post explores the sobering realization of the distance between worlds when an adoptee’s Jewish identity and a birth mother’s faith do not align. Drawing on the story of Moses, Dr. David McCarty-Caplan offers reflections on maintaining personal authenticity and healing through community while staying present in the complex, radical act of love that is reunion.

Explore the complex connection between adoptee birthdays and grief. Dr. David McCarty-Caplan shares a somatic reflection on navigating loss, reunion, and healing.