by Steve Sunseth | Jul 3, 2026 | Blog
You finally have a quiet evening. There's nothing urgent that needs doing, and nowhere you need to be. But instead of feeling relieved, you feel cahuely uneasy. You try to sit still, but something inside you resists. You reach for your phone, or find a task to do that...
by Steve Sunseth | Jun 26, 2026 | Blog
Adult Adoptee Therapy Ontario. A reflection on the research article Perceived Inequality Between Biological and Adopted Siblings and Behavioural Problems Among Adopted Children: The Mediating Role of Emotional Insecurity. Adoption Quarterly. Abdullah 2026. I grew up...
by Steve Sunseth | Jun 19, 2026 | Blog
A reflection on Elisha Marr’s “Pronatalism in Adoption Seeking: Characteristics of Contemporary Women in the US” (Adoption Quarterly, 2026) Pronatalism, adoption, and the hidden cost to adoptees. We talk a lot about why people adopt. We talk far less...
by Steve Sunseth | Jun 13, 2026 | Blog
I want to tell you something about adoptee guilt and shame. It’s something that I don’t say lightly; something it took me the better part of four decades to understand. The shame I carried for most of my life wasn’t mine. I borrowed it. I absorbed...
by Steve Sunseth | Jun 5, 2026 | Blog
You’re in the middle of a conversation and suddenly you’re not quite there anymore. You’re watching yourself from a slight distance, going through the motions, saying the right things, but something essential has quietly stepped back from the room....
by Steve Sunseth | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog
When most people think about trauma, they think about flashbacks. Nightmares. Panic attacks triggered by a loud noise. The kind of dramatic, unmistakable symptoms that make it obvious something is wrong. But for many people (maybe most), unprocessed trauma...
