510: Not All Parts Get Adopted - Supporting Adoptees with Wholeness and Integration

Have you ever noticed that -- much like Riley in Disney•Pixar's Inside Out series -- you have different parts? The Internal Family Systems (IFS) framework asserts that everybody consists of different parts. Our guest this month, Kathy Mackechney, LCSW, IFS therapist, and adoptee, further believes that for adoptees, “not all parts get adopted.” How can that be and what does it mean for the adoptees we love and for us as their parents?

Do you want to know more about why some parts are left behind? How adoptive parents may inadvertently contribute to this phenomenon? And what about the idea that the adoptee has parts that don’t want to be adopted by us? Would you like to know more about supporting our adoptees’ lifelong quest to figure out who they are, to pursue self-acceptance, integration, and wholeness?
I do, so come be curious with me as we hear from Kathy Mackechney.

Show Notes

• Website: https://www.adopteetherapy.com/
• Email: kathy@adopteetherapy.com
• Instagram: @adopteetherapy
• Book: Altogether Us (which chapter is yours?)
• Adoption Unfiltered podcast: What is hard about adoption?
• Adoption Unfiltered Roundtable (mentioned)
• December 2024 workshop for Adoptive Parents: Not All Parts Get Adopted
• What if I’m Raising Someone Else’s Child? (mentioned)

Transcript

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About this Podcast

Lori Holden (The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole) brings to you an array of articulate and thought-provoking guests with lived experience in adoption, each with valuable insights to share about the all-encompassing journey of parenting an adopted person from babyhood to toddlerhood to school age to teenage -- and ultimately to adulthood. Join us as we explore Adoption: The Long View.

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