Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Kate and Ty, Break It Down.

Today we have an awesome guest who I'm super excited to speak with Dr. Abby.

Dr. Abby, thank you for being here.

I'm so excited to be here.

Thank you for having me.

I like to always start off with if you can kind of talk about who you are,

kind of a little bit of your story and your journey, just to kind of kick things off.

Sure.

So I am both a transracial adoptee and a birth mother.

And so I am here kind of talking about those

experiences as a teenage birth mother as well as a transracial adoptee. But I'm also a therapist

and my primary clients, I guess, are adoptees and birth parents. And I specifically started

working as a therapist in that realm because I found

that there weren't any that I could find in my area for me and for other people. And so I did a

whole career switch. I used to be a principal and educator before that and did a whole career

switch based around the fact that there were not enough therapists that were really adoption

informed and understood adoption as trauma. And so I now speak a lot and have written a memoir about my

experience, but just really to change the narrative about adoptions and really get the truth out

there through lived experience and research both. So as far as like getting the truth out there, what would that look like?

What does that sound like to you if you can kind of like summarize it for people who don't

really know what that means?

Yeah.

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