…oh you thought I had it all together.

Babes, we are all a work in progress.

Early morning thoughts hit different, don’t they? Especially when you’re navigating adoptee thoughts, healing and trying to make sense of what “whole” really means.

Here are a few reflections from the wee hours of the morning that we might have in common:

• You’re not responsible for the choices your birth parents made.
• Adoption will have you thinking you’re not important.
• The way my family history has me in a chokehold simply because I do not know it.
• I learned to change the narrative of my adoption story by facing it directly.
• Adoption is a process, so pardon me if I’m still trying to understand it.
• Adoption ain’t one-size-fits-all.
• Finding myself looks different these days because… well, because what?
• At some point, that anger gonna ease — and it’s gonna be scary af.
• Allow people that want to love you, love you — and grow to trust there’s no secret agenda behind it.
• To my father, you’re trying your best.
• Will I be remembered?
• Do I not want a family, or am I scared to have one?
• Oh gosh — why am I up?

See — I’m not perfect. But I’m still human. Whatever it is- get it out of your mind, even if it’s in bullet points.

under the candlelight,
Teish