The Language You Were Never Given: 5 Things Adoptees Are Allowed to Grieve

The Language You Were Never Given: 5 Things Adoptees Were Never Allowed to Grieve

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You were never dramatic. You were never ungrateful. You were never broken.

You were just never given the words.

This free resource was written by Brielle Wilson — marriage and family therapist intern, adoptee, and mother of eight — for the adoptees who have spent years feeling things nobody gave them permission to feel.

Inside you’ll find language for five of the heaviest things adoptees carry: the grief nobody acknowledged, the behavior that was actually communication, the anger and gratitude that were never supposed to coexist, the compliance that got mistaken for healing, and the identity that never got a chance to form.

This isn’t a coping strategies list. It isn’t a self-help checklist. It’s the language that should have been handed to you a long time ago.

Download it free. Keep it. Share it with someone who needs it.

Also by Brielle Wilson: Writing Over the Lines — a book for adoptees, adoptive families, and the clinicians who serve them. Available on Lulu.