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The holidays really are the most difficult time of the year for adoptees, IMO. Family celebration as a guise for hidden traumas. Thank you. See you in 2025.

You really helped me , but ,,,,!spent 2 hours pouring my heart out , big reply , very painful, tried to send but hot “ postcontains invalid argument “ wouldn’t send absolutely furiou

I love what you do Lara helps me so much ❤❤

Just ' discovered ' you Lara .... feeling very grateful....🤗🌹🤝✨✨🌬️🌬️...as an adoptee you are literally speaking the language of my soul.. 🌬️🌬️✨💔🙏✍️...thank you 🥰😘😍🤗

Your welcome Lara🎉🎉

Thank you, Laura. From Canada wish you a merry Christmas and all the best in 2025 and beyond. Your wisdom has helped me a lot this year. Shalom.

I honestly don't believe that anymore besides us adoptees has any true understanding ,my need for solitude is so severe ,I am becoming a recluse .

Thankyou so much Lara ,I really needed this to know how much I am not alone ,and that nearly all adoptees will be struggling at this very difficult time of year . Thankyou again , I wish you and all fellow adoptees well ,and a safe peaceful Christmas 🎄 ❤ Love from Nick .

Thanks Lara, I'm estranged from my adoptive family so I feel safe, but reflective too. Thanks for your work. Merry Xmas ❤

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How can I contact you? I’m adopted under x and in dire need of your support

Thank you for all you do Semper FI.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays and have a wonderful 2025 one and all!!! Keep hold of and keep spreading the love, care and laughter!❤🙏🎄

Oof, the call to solitude, the silent fight... Can definitely relate. It is an emotionally complex time of year for sure. Grateful for your work ❤

Thank you Lara, wishing the same for you.

Yep, challenging is an understatement. Much love 💖

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Hello I’m 37years old Brazilian adopted. I’d be happy to contribute to your researches if you need

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Hi Lara very moving and poignant story, very emotional and brave of you to share x Nick

Great story 😮

What an extremely beautiful lady you are 🙏❤️💕 thank you so much

Thank you very much ❤️ 😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

Lies upon lies upon lies

Too late damage done I'm DUNN

Absolutely. I waited over a month to be visied when i had my baby. They found it too difficult .

Thank you so much for sharing this story. It feels very healing to hear other adoption stories, i feel less alone ❤

Hi Lara, I wanted to email you, but couldn't find an address anywhere. I was wondering if you do online 1-1 sessions around adoption and the impact it has on relationships?

Love this.

Hello Lara, I'm adopted and also your age. I appreciate your work online as it has helped me so much. Please keep it up because I know how important your work is to so many people around the world. There's so little awareness about this topic x

Being adopted one naturally has the feeling of having been wronged, and just as in Barbara's story, it rarely occurs to anyone that we're due an apology but rather should be grateful for what others have done for us.

thank you for sharing ❤

Thank you so much Helens 💓 xx

i took notes on your other videos! so informative

Thankyou Lara ,and thankyou Helen ,you have really expressed your feelings and experience of adoption so well ,I can only imagine how hard this was for you ,as I have wanted to write my personal journey ,but still can't make a beginning . I just wanted to say how much I relate to all you have said ,and how hearing your words helps me and hopefully many other adoptees to realise we are not on our own . Your writing ended with a lot of positive and uplifting thoughts and ideas , I was so happy for you and wish you very well for the future. With best wishes ,Nick . ❤

Thank you Helen for sharing your story with us

Thank you for this story of yours Lara and for sharing it. I am very grateful and appreciative for all the outstanding work you do with your platforms, passing on your knowledge and experiences. Never let anything halt you in your quest. You are a hero to many communities and people! Love lasts longer than just a lifetime. Be happy and well!!

Thank you for sharing something so deeply personal and intensely painful. Heartbreaking to hear and sadly not so uncommon for many adoptees with all those decades of longing and searching only to have such a devastating near miss of a reunion. But those years formed beautiful pearls of wisdom and inspired passion for change, which I and many others truly appreciate. Thanks again as this channel has helped me so much with my healing journey and continues to do so.

@ Lara Leon. How brave of you to cast the rules aside and share the story of the search for your father. How sad that you were too late. I am scared to start the search but it never is far from my thoughts. I tell myself I am alright without that knowledge but know it is not true. What should I do? Kind regards, Anna Anderson. PS: I hope you found some peace in finding out his name 😢

Thank you Lara for sharing this. It's beautifully written and deeply emotional. I have a very similar story, also went thru FM with a DNA search and missed my father by 3 months. It's devastating, isn't it? Love to you. X

I so completely agree with everything you have said Lara ,I always felt guilty about not being closer and more loving towards my adopted parents and sister ❤

Thankyou Lara ,I am so sorry that you and so many other adoptees didn't get the opportunity to ever meet their mothers or fathers ,it all seems like yet another cruel and painful event in the life of the adoptee . I wanted to share my adoption experience and about my reunion with my mother ,but it is all so complicated and confusing I just couldn't do it . Due to the disturbing and unsettling affect finding my mother has had on me ,I have not tried to trace my father and know very little about him . I want to say how much I admire and feel for everyone that has shared their experience of adoption ,its a very painful and difficult thing to do,and I really do sincerely appreciate their bravery . I did listen to all of them ,and left comments to some of them . Some of them were just so painful to hear ,that I just couldn't find the words and was afraid to say anything that might sound trite or in any way insincere ,so to those I did not comment I apologise and am sorry . My sincere and best wishes to you Lara and all adoptees wherever in this world they may be ,Nick ❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼

thank you so much, I can identify with such a lot of issues and do not feel so isolated with it all every time a hear another adoptee story, much love xxx

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