Join co-hosts, adoption coaches, and triad members Kim Noeth, Sally Ankerfelt and Sharon Butler Obazee, as they welcome this month's special guest, adult adoptee and adoption coach, Simon Benn. Mr. Benn is also the driving force behind the "Thriving Adoptees Podcast." A warm, delightful United Kingdom native, he's an informative guest with helpful positive insight into living life beyond adoption as he shares his own personal journey from anger to acceptance to joy. As an adoption coach, he has assisted adoptive parents and adoptees live life beyond adoption's trauma. As Simon says, his work with others is "Trauma Informed. Healing Focused. Thriving Obsessed."

Simon Benn was adopted at 5 weeks old and told so young that he doesn't ever remember not knowing. All went well until at age 40 he found out that his teddy bear was a gift from his birth mother. He recalls that that knowledge unleashed feelings of anger, rejection, and being unloved. Yet it kickstarted a profound healing journey for him, finding the amazing truth about Ted and interviewing over 500 people in the adoption world, and helping others thrive.

*Learn more about Simon Benn: https://thrivingadoptees.com/

*Listen to his podcast, Thriving Adoptees: https://thrivingadoptees.com/page-057p-1pst

*Learn more about your ADOPTION MATTERS' hosts at www.giftfamilyservices.com