After The Anchor Podcast is a peer-led healing community for people who’ve lived through hard things, faced themselves, and decided to do the work anyway. It’s not about what happened before; it’s about what came after.
Bonni always knew she was adopted, but finding her birth mother seemed impossible. After years of dead ends, a private investigator found her in about 24 hours. What followed was a first meeting with the birth mother, brother, and sister Bonni had never known.
In this episode of After the Anchor, Bonni tells Leslie what it was like to grow up knowing she was adopted, how her adoptive mom helped her search, and what happened when her birth family learned about her. They also talk about the fear of reaching out, finding familiar traits in people you’ve just met, and loving more than one family.
Leslie shares her own family discovery, too: a brother in France has reached out to her, bringing up questions she’s carried since childhood.