Episode 257: Uncovering Your Identity (w/ Kyle Bullock, Ellyn Bullock, & Michelle Hubble)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
It’s natural to wonder who your birth parents are. In fact, this is a question that many foster and adoptive children wrestle with.
For children, teens, and even adults who have never known their biological parents, curiosity about their identity often goes hand in hand with a fear of the unknown. And for foster and adoptive parents, broaching this topic can bring up worries around the answers your child may find, and how what they uncover could heal or hurt them.
My guests today have navigated these questions and concerns from the perspectives of an adoptive child, adoptive parent, and birth mom. Kyle Bullock was adopted as a baby by Ellyn Bullock and her husband. As a teen, he began to have questions about his birth mom and set out to find her. After a search on MySpace, he found Michelle Hubble and discovered answers about his past. What followed was a long and rich relationship with both his birth mom and adoptive parents.
In this episode, our guests dive into the importance of discovering your identity, the challenges of interracial adoption, advice for people who may want to seek out their birth parents but feel nervous, and much more.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/kyle-bullock-257/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | I describe it as you're doing a puzzle, right? So you're doing this thousand piece puzzle, right? And that's your life. Right. So I'm doing this puzzle. I'm seeing this picture |
| 0:23.3 | and I'm missing one piece and I'm looking all over for it. I'm looking over in the |
| 0:30.1 | under the carpet, in the couches, in the garage, just everywhere. I can't find it, can't find it, |
| 0:35.8 | can't find it. When I found her, it's like I found that piece put together, and then you see this picture, |
| 0:41.1 | this beautiful picture. |
| 0:43.6 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories |
| 0:49.0 | of the people of foster care. With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care |
| 0:55.6 | community. We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the |
| 1:00.6 | agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you |
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| 1:16.0 | Head over to the forgotten initiative.org. |
| 1:19.0 | We are in this together. |
| 1:21.2 | Thank you for listening and engaging with us. |
| 1:23.6 | We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:26.5 | Okay, it is time. |
| 1:28.6 | Let's do this. |
| 1:39.7 | Today I am joined by three guests whose lives are deeply interconnected with one another in a way that might surprise you. |
| 1:47.1 | It's a very beautiful, beautiful story we're going to hear. |
| 1:50.4 | Kyle Bullock has shared his story of adoption in various ways. |
| 1:54.7 | And we are so thankful. |
| 1:56.2 | Today, he joins us with his adoptive and his birth mom. |
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