Ep 9: National Adoption and Foster Care Awareness Month--What Every Adoptee and Foster Child Need to Hear

Ep 10: Dear 17 — A Letter to Every Adult Who Was Once Young and Carried Something Nobody Helped Them Name

This episode is a letter. Not to the teenager standing at graduation — but to the adult who was once 17 and stepped into the world still holding something nobody helped them name. I am proud of you. Not for what you accomplished. For who you are. For how hard you tried. For still being here. Topics: graduation, healing letter, abandonment wound, self worth, emotional healing, late discovery adoptee, women healing.

Ep 9: National Adoption and Foster Care Awareness Month--What Every Adoptee and Foster Child Need to Hear

I did not know May was National Foster Care and Adoption Awareness Month until I walked into a Wendy's and saw it. And I smiled — because God always has perfect timing. This episode is an honest conversation about what this month actually means to a late discovery adoptee who spent decades unable to say those words out loud. For the adoptee who never needed a month to know their story. And for the one who did. Topics: National Adoption Awareness Month, late discovery adoptee, foster care, abandonment wound, adoptee healing.

Ep. 8: Why You Keep Falling for the Same Person in a Different Body--Imago Theory and Toxic Relationship Patterns

It is not bad luck. It is not bad taste. And it is not a coincidence. There is a reason you keep ending up in the same place — and I found the answer in a bookstore. This episode will change the way you understand every relationship you have ever been in. SHOW NOTES:📄 Free Values Worksheet [foundat17.gumroad.com/l/iafumy] ☕ Book a Free Coffee Chat [tidycal.com/foundat17]🔗 All Links [linktr.ee/unfinishedrewrite]✉️ Email Me [unfinishedrewrite@gmail.com⁠]🎧 Apple Podcasts [podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/found-at-17/id1893791096]🎧 Spotify [open.spotify.com/episode/6XlCg9KM1ku3EjJzXhhs0q]

Ep 7: People Pleasing Is Not Kindness — It Is Fear. Here Is What It Is Really Costing You

You know the feeling. You see exactly what is happening but you say nothing. You absorb it. You cover for it. And somewhere in the process — you lose a piece of yourself. This episode is about people pleasing, what it actually costs you, and why being direct is not the same as being unkind. SHOW NOTES:📄 Free Values Worksheetfoundat17.gumroad.com/l/iafumy [foundat17.gumroad.com/l/iafumy] ☕ Book a Free Coffee Chattidycal.com/foundat17 [tidycal.com/foundat17] 🔗 All Linkslinktr.ee/unfinishedrewrite [linktr.ee/unfinishedrewrite] ✉️ Email Meunfinishedrewrite@gmail.com [unfinishedrewrite@gmail.com] 🎧 Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/found-at-17/id1893791096 [podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/found-at-17/id1893791096] 🎧 Spotifyopen.spotify.com/episode/6XlCg9KM1ku3EjJzXhhs0q [open.spotify.com/episode/6XlCg9KM1ku3EjJzXhhs0q]

Ep. 6: Healing the Abandonment Wound- What 16 yrs of Healthy Love Actually Looks Like

This is where it all comes together. In this final episode of the first arc, I show you where the road leads. Not the highlight reel version. The real one. I talk about the stranger who accidentally changed my life with four words. The fear I had been outrunning for years. The work that made everything after it possible. And the man who showed me what it feels like to finally be heard. But most importantly — I want to leave you with this: The love you are longing for is not the destination. You are the destination. Everything else flows from that.