{"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":"Returning to the Familiar: When we keep going back to things that hurt","slug":"returning-to-the-familiar-when-we-keep-going-back-to-things-that-hurt","published_at":"2026-06-30T08:19:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adoption-files-5610264/returning-to-the-familiar-when-we-keep-going-back-to-things-that-hurt","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adoption-files-5610264","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ande-stanley/episodes/Returning-to-the-Familiar-When-we-keep-going-back-to-things-that-hurt-e3l9t3j","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/6d7f7e1c/podcast/play/122008115/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-26%2F426851168-44100-2-dbdf7c7778f8e.m4a","summary":"Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue to explore spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hillary L McBride Phd as a scaffold for our discussion. How might these spiritual wounds relate to Dani's experience as a mother of loss to adoption? How has my being an adopted person been shaped by spiritual trauma? In this installment we talk about the return to the familiar, even when the familiar hurts. Dani Joy is a mother of loss to adoption, a homesteader and blogger. She can be found at: https://medium.com/@danijoy https://hillarylmcbride.com/holy-hurt-book/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20355967 https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24881-cptsd-complex-ptsd 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.","meta_description":"Please join Dani Joy and I as we continue to explore spiritual trauma using the book Holy Hurt by Hillary L McBride Phd as a scaffold for our discussion.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2282,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-adoption-files-5610264/episodes/returning-to-the-familiar-when-we-keep-going-back-to-things-that-hurt/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/returning-to-the-familiar-when-we-keep-going-back-to-things-that-hurt.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}