Okay, so guys, welcome back to another episode of Kate and I, break it down.

Today we have cycle therapist Amy.

We're super excited to have you.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

Oh, it's my pleasure. Happy to be here.

Yeah, so I think first off, tell people who don't know who you are, what your work is, or kind of how this all came about for you.

Yeah, so I'm an adopteee and I begin just by saying that because a lot of your

listeners know your story and I think you probably connected with me because of that. And while I've

been a therapist for gosh, 32 or so years. Over the pandemic, my children who are young adults

said to me, Mom, you should really post some of your adoption story and content on Instagram

because maybe people want to hear about it.

And so I thought, you know, I'm going to put it out there.

And if all three of the other people on the planet who want to hear my story,

listen to me, that would be great.

So I started really taking a deep dive into the work that I do professionally with adoptees, but added in my own

story so that people understood I'm coming from a background of really knowing the journey of

being an adoptee and my own experience with it and my own hurdles and my own mental health

struggles that I've had as a

result of that impact and my process of working through that, but also how I've taken my

clinical training in this area of attachment disruption and worked with literally thousands

of adoptees, birth parents, um, and adoptive families.

So I just started creating content and, uh, people, it resonated with people.

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