Continue to be You

These are words that are encouraging to me. I love it when friends speak into my life and tell me to continue to be ME.

These are friends who I know that I can be me. They are the ones who tell me not to change just to keep people comfortable.

I am glad for Blogs and Support Groups who are available to help Family who have adopted children and Support Groups that support adoptees who are trying to make sense of the Issues that are surrounded by adoption.

These resources are helping to take away the Stigma of being adopted.

I wish that there had been support to me when I was looking for my birth family. I wish that there would have been someone to talk to Why I felt Depressed, Angry and Feeling disconnected from my family.

I am thankful that I found support groups in my adult years. There seems to be a Stigma that Adoptees whine . There is a Stigma that makes it is disloyal to your adopted family if you talk about feelings about our birth family.

Silence from birth family is hurtful. Silence from family hurts as well.

Silence is not going to keep me from speaking out about my views about being separated from my birth family.

Silence about being adopted has kept me from having open and honest relationships with people.

Silence from Family has made it that I have chosen to Speak out whether people approve of me speaking out.

I struggle with Trusting people. I find it hard to get close to people. I guess because when I am honest about what is going on I have been gas lighted by people making light of my experiences of life and about being Adopted.

I can be me. I can be who I am because God has made me. God loves me for Me.

I do not have to put on airs. I am thankful for my friends who encourage me to be me.

Until next Time

Margaret Etcher Theriault