{"podcast":{"title":"The Adoption Files","slug":"the-adoption-files-5610264","podcast_index_feed_id":5610264,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/6d7f7e1c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ande-stanley","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/18270719/18270719-1782272069311-fe173ba22145.jpg","author":"Ande Stanley","episode_count":163,"summary":"The Adoption files seeks to provide a place for adoptees and allies to discuss the laws preventing adoptees from accessing their identities, and the emotional and physical challenges adoptees face in the process of dealing with the obstacles we face. We recognize the need to expose the problematic aspects of the adoption industry and the narrative they perpetuate. We will not only talk about the laws and the challenges they create, but also the ways that the mythology around adoption impacts the way we move through our lives, as adopted people and as mothers and other family members.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T12:18:37.727302+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adoption-files-5610264"},"episode":{"title":"Fundamentally Bad: a Survivor's Universal Experience of Spiritual Trauma","slug":"fundamentally-bad-a-survivor-s-universal-experience-of-spiritual-trauma","published_at":"2026-05-26T11:03:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adoption-files-5610264/fundamentally-bad-a-survivor-s-universal-experience-of-spiritual-trauma","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adoption-files-5610264","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ande-stanley/episodes/Fundamentally-Bad-a-Survivors-Universal-Experience-of-Spiritual-Trauma-e3jrkau","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/6d7f7e1c/podcast/play/120491806/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-25%2F424821789-44100-2-dd6a086f8773e.m4a","summary":"Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue our conversation about spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hilary L McBride PhD as a guide as we explore how this has impacted us as a mother of loss to adoption and as an adopted person. Both Dani and I come from a Christian religious tradition, and we speak to our own lived experience as people deconstructing from religion and from the adoption narrative. Dani can be found at: https://medium.com/@danijoy https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/ Mentioned on the podcast: https://candacecahill.com/book/ https://www.youtube.com/@maklelan https://www.youtube.com/@dataoverdogma If you are experiencing distress and need to talk, please reach out to one of the trained responders or to someone you feel safe with: https://www.healthcentral.com/mental-health/get-help-mental-health The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions. The host is not a lawyer, a therapist or an adoption professional Thank you for listening! Please rate and review the show. We appreciate you.","meta_description":"Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue our conversation about spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hilary L McBride PhD as a guide as we explor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3973,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-adoption-files-5610264/episodes/fundamentally-bad-a-survivor-s-universal-experience-of-spiritual-trauma/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adoption-files-5610264/fundamentally-bad-a-survivor-s-universal-experience-of-spiritual-trauma.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}