My biggest gift is my past. Yours can be too.
Simon Benn host of
Thriving Adoptees Podcast
said on 10/19/23:
“This has to be one of the most powerful and empowering episodes ever to air on this podcast.”
—Simon Benn
Memoir: coming March 21, 2024
Adopted and raised during Alaska’s lawless 1970s oil-boom era, Monica grows up amid trauma and dysfunction. As a teen, she rebels into delinquency. When Monica is raped and becomes pregnant, her religious parents pushed her into giving up her baby—only known blood relative—for adoption. These events kick off a decades-long search for family and belonging. Thread by thread, she weaves together the truth of her identity, pulled by yearning for her daughter and the mother who gave her away.
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Excerpt of transcript from this podcast episode:
Monica Hall: I live in Sacramento. I was adopted out of Canada from a foster home with about 10 other babies. I was raised in Anchorage, Alaska, because that's where my parents had been living. That's where a lot of the trauma happened and caused me to write a memoir. We moved to California when I was 16. I'm still in California. It’s been a long journey being an adoptee and relinquishing a child for adoption.
The thing that adoptees most often ask me is, “Being an adoptee, how could you give up your own baby?”