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Unraveling Adoption


Jan 16, 2023

In this week’s Unraveling Adoption podcast (formerly Safe Home Podcast), Beth talks with Alex Baquero, a 31yo from Philadelphia who was adopted at 6 months old from Colombia. His adoptive parents are white, and he started reuniting with his birth family 12 years ago. He shares his adoption story and his complicated reunion story, plus he lets us know what tools have helped him along the way. 

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TIME STAMPS:

   1:33 Alex’s adoption story as a child

   5:15 Both extremes are invalidating to adoptees

  6:46 Growing up Colombian in a white family and white suburbia

  8:02 Alex’s initial search for his birth family

10:30 How adoptive parents often get in the way of adoptees’ healing and reunion

16:10 Reuniting with his Scandinavian sisters

19:24 How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has helped Alex

21:30 How Alex got connected with his birth mother in Colombia

24:22 The complexities of traveling in Colombia

25:35 How Covid added to the complexity of reunion with his mother

28:25 Meeting Alex’s father’s side of the family, unexpectedly 

31:10 How Alex managed his emotions and thinking during his time in Colombia

33:35 Aftermath back at home

37:55 Telling his adoptive parents about his reunion

39:03 Going forward…what are Alex’s future plans?