The Dear Claire Podcast
Welcome to Dear Claire: The Art of Healing Adoptee Attachment. This is where we go way beyond just being aware of your attachment style, we will be breaking it down so that you understand why you feel so triggered or stuck sometimes. We are going to be healing your core wounds so that you can improve the quality of your relationships and bring more peace into your life. We are diving into the somatic tools, subconscious reprogramming, and manifestation practices that move the healing from your head into your heart and your nervous system.
The Dear Claire Podcast
Latest Episodes
Becoming Your Own Mother — Reparenting the Adoptee Inner Child
There's a little one inside you who's been waiting a very long time. For adoptees, she's often younger than words — holding the original loss alone since before you had memory of it. This week, we go inward to meet her.I'm braiding toget...
Coming Home to the Body: Somatic Healing for the Adoptee Nervous System
You cannot do deep healing work from a state of fight-or-flight.I wish I'd known that a decade ago. I would have saved myself hundreds of hours of therapy I wasn't biologically ready to use. Because the body — your beautiful, brilliant, ...
The Issue Isn't the Issue — Overcoming Your Coping Mechanisms
I always thought the problem was the wine. Or the scrolling. The over-working. The over-functioning. I'd white-knuckle a promise to myself, last about four days, and crash right back into the thing I swore I'd quit. Then I'd hate myself for it....
Stop Performing Love: Boundaries, Belonging, and the Adoptee Heart
For most of my life, I thought having no boundaries made me a good person. Easygoing. Loving. Available. The truth? It just meant I was showing people exactly how to walk all over me. And it was slowly costing me my body, my peace, and my sense...
Shadow Work, Adoptee Attachment, and Why Your Triggers Are Gifts
If you've ever felt like you had to perform okayness to be kept — this episode is for you.As adoptees, so many of us learned early that being loved was conditional. To stay, we had to be a certain way: easy, grateful, not too much. So we...