This Korean Adoptee Had A Complicated Family Structure of Trauma & How She Learned to Heal From It

<p>Korean Adoptee Stories is excited to introduce a Korean Adoptee: Peggy Galdamez. Peggy recounts her story of trauma where her adoptive parents divorced young. She lost to custody from her adoptive mother and her brother and her were sent to live with her adoptive father who remarried and recounts the time where she was asked at a young age to call her Step-Mom, Mom and growing up with them was strained. Since then she has struggled with her identity, abandonment issues and mental health issues. She has sought help through an adoptee competent therapist and has started her own journey of healing and learning to love herself and the shortcomings of her parents, and found ways to be happier as a mother and wife. Peggy is a health and wellness, coach, an author, and runs an adoptee support group called: Adoptees For Healing and host her own podcast called: Heal, Transform, Thrive.</p> <p><br></p> <p>~</p> <p><br></p> <p>Key Topics Covered:</p> <p><br></p> <p>0:28 - Intro &amp; Personal Background</p> <p>1:58 - Relationship with Adoptive Parents</p> <p>4:03 - The Strained Relationship of Her Adoptive Father &amp; Step Mother</p> <p>17:55 - Clarification Why Adoptive Mother Lost Custody</p> <p>19:18 - Supportive Relationship with Adoptive Mother Yet Harboring Resentment</p> <p>24:36 - Boarding School &amp; Experiences</p> <p>28:00 - Details about Older Adoptive Brother, His Psychological Trauma &amp; Drug Abuse</p> <p>34:40 - Information on Birth Family &amp; Adoption</p> <p>36:30 - Feelings on Not Knowing Birth Family &amp; Adoptee Gathering Experience</p> <p>42:30 - Relationship History, Dealing With Low Self-Esteem, Drug Abuse, Journey to Healing &amp; Art Therapy</p> <p>49:20 - Working With An Adoption Competent Therapist &amp; Learning Boundaries, &amp; Becoming a Better Mother</p> <p>1:01:00 - Cultural Diversity &amp; Identity Growing Up, Throughout College, &amp; Now</p> <p>1:08:00 - Raising Kids With Covid-19</p> <p>1:10:00 - Details about "Adoptees For Healing" Support Group</p> <p>1:14:00 - Health &amp; We