What Motherhood Has Taught Me
Everyone’s parenting experience is unique, but there are similar thoughts and feelings that every mother and father has in their journeys. As an adoptee and mother of adopted children, Michelle Madrid-Branch takes this episode to discuss her experience as a mother and what it has taught her.
With deep conversations about creating space to communicate with your children, allowing adoptees to be heard, and giving freedom to and embracing your children, Madrid-Branch provides advice for parents of adopted children as well as any parents needing insights on their individual journeys of raising and loving a child.
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Being at Peace With Your Story and Identity
Adoption is complicated, and the life of the adoptee can be one faced with many obstacles. This is why it is necessary to find peace with your story and your identity, so that the difficulties you face do not define your journey.
In this episode, Michelle touches on topics such as the importance of claiming your identity and your truth as an adoptee, the relationships between adopted families, and understanding the language of adoption. With all of these factors in mind, you can be able to open yourself up to your experiences and your identity, and how you want to view each of them.
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You Can’t Elevate Yourself By Putting Others Down
It was devastating.
She said, “I thought if other people heard it or if they knew about my early story, then they would see me as less able to do the job that I was doing. Somehow scared, less desirable to hire.”
A set of feelings that were difficult to escape.
So, she hid it for as long as possible.
Until one day a breaking news story developed.
She said, “I was on the news desk, reading this story coming down on the prompter about a homicide that had happened… The suspect was the adopted son of this couple… It said ‘the adopted son’ over and over again.”
A story that made Michelle realize that we cannot run from the truth of who we are.
A story that helped her embrace her adoption as a strength, not a weakness.
A story that helped Michelle define her purpose in life, to ensure that the adoption community is heard, seen, valued, respected, and understood.
"I want to help people rise… I want to help them overcome"
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Becoming Resilient: Make the decision to move forward
On Life: Your decisions control your life, not the events that happen in it
On Identity: Don’t hide from your story
On Advocacy: Rise up every morning and be passionate about your work