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...
by Steve Sunseth | May 23, 2026 | Blog
You didn’t disappear all at once. It happened gradually — a shrinking here, a silencing there. You learned which parts of yourself were welcome and which ones weren’t. You learned that being too loud, too needy, too emotional, too much of anything came...
by Steve Sunseth | May 18, 2026 | Blog
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people come to therapy. And for good reason; it’s exhausting, it’s disruptive, and it can quietly take over your life. But here’s something worth considering: not all anxiety is the same. Some of what gets...
by Steve Sunseth | May 2, 2026 | Blog
If you’ve spent most of your life feeling like an outsider; even in your own family, even in your own skin, you’re not imagining it. For many adult adoptees, the feeling of not belonging isn’t a personality flaw or ingratitude. It’s a wound....
