An Adoptee’s Teddy Bear Epiphany | Simon Benn, Thriving Adoptees

Simon Benn was adopted at five weeks old in 1967 and grew up in England always knowing his story. At 40, an unexpected burst of anger during a horse whispering course brought buried feelings about his birth mother to the surface. Nine years later, a letter in his adoption file changed everything. Rick Morton talks with the founder of Thriving Adoptees about the primal wound, why adoptive parents should never dismiss relinquishment trauma, and why the adoption community needs to move from trauma obsessed to thriving obsessed. As Simon puts it, the past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. Find more at thrivingadoptees.com.