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By Stephanie Carroll

Parts Work | Connecting to a part of me in my throat

June 6, 2026

Parts Work | Connecting to a part of me in my throat

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From being relinquished and self-abandoning to healing and claiming myself now. 🖤

New post up about my first experience attending th

New post up about my first experience attending the 3rd Untangling Our Roots Summit a few months ago in March. #adoptee #adopteevoices #adopteehealing #conferencesandevents

Do you feel like an impostor? Well maybe you are.

Do you feel like an impostor? Well maybe you are. Post dives into where that impostor feeling comes from. Sometimes impostor syndrome isn’t something to overcome. Sometimes it’s information about what isn’t aligned for you.

As an adoptee, you may not have felt allowed to ex

As an adoptee, you may not have felt allowed to explore who you were throughout your life. You may have scanned the home for how to behave, hot to fit - so that you would not be abandoned again. You may have shoved yourself inside any role that you needed to fulfill in order to survive your family, survive your home. This pattern may have kept going. More than likely it followed you into adulthood hood, into jobs, into relationships. This pattern of burying yourself probably followed you everywhere until something inside you broke with the weight of carrying what wasn’t yours. You’re not crazy. There isn’t anything wrong with you. What’s one identity that you played that you know isn’t really you?! 🖤 #adopteevoices #emotionalneglect #healingabandonment #adoptionjourney

🤍 when you stop long enough to notice your purpose

🤍 when you stop long enough to notice your purpose has been there the whole time, you look back and see hints of it along the way. These hints don’t come back all at once, but they are the things you remember from time to time. Memories that never really leave you. But they are subtle. They are whispers. They are every day moments. How you felt alive when you did that thing. What that professor said in class years ago. What you said half joking when someone randomly asked you what you want to do in life. And sometimes teachers that told you that you weren’t good at something. Or your parents not seeing your gift so it went unnoticed. Your gifts have always shined, there weren’t always noticed. #adopteevoices #mentalhealthawareness #findingpurpose

I have found it’s important to make your own tradi

I have found it’s important to make your own traditions. My Christmas tree becomes my winter tree after I take off all the ornaments after the new year. I leave up my winter tree til March. I love winter and I don’t have very many snow days in Tennessee. 🌨️ Super cozy all winter long.

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