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.
Episodes
7 episodes
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...
Why Your Needs Are Running Your Life (And How to Reclaim Control)
Why is it that we often find ourselves acting in ways that contradict what we truly want in our relationships? In this episode of Dear Claire, we explore the powerful reality that our needs are the invisible architects of our behavior—...
How to Rewrite your Adoptee Survival Manual in 60 Minutes
In this transformative episode, Claire dives deep into the "invisible script" that many adoptees carry—the subconscious roadmap formed in the earliest stages of life. You will finally understand why you get triggered and learn exactly how to ma...
The Art of Healing Adoptee Attachment: Meet Your Host Claire
The Art of Healing Adoptee AttachmentAre you tired of just "knowing" your attachment style but still feeling stuck in the same anxious or avoidant cycles?In this opening episode, Claire Magenheimer—The Adoptee Empowe...