Eden Sharp
@edensharp.bsky.social
Trainee Psychotherapist. Family Support Worker. Ex-Lecturer of English. Author. #adoptee
A deeper dive on what emotions you may be experiencing.
January 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
A deeper dive on what emotions you may be experiencing.
EVERY country in the world has signed up to the Convention on the Rights of the Child EXCEPT two: the USA and Somalia.
These include the right to identity:
To know one’s name, nationality and who one’s relatives are. #adoption
These include the right to identity:
To know one’s name, nationality and who one’s relatives are. #adoption
January 9, 2026 at 11:27 AM
EVERY country in the world has signed up to the Convention on the Rights of the Child EXCEPT two: the USA and Somalia.
These include the right to identity:
To know one’s name, nationality and who one’s relatives are. #adoption
These include the right to identity:
To know one’s name, nationality and who one’s relatives are. #adoption
Your brain builds your reality around the stories you tell yourself and they’re likely outdated. You cling to them even when they no longer serve you. Your life is created by your thoughts. At any time, you can rewrite your story. Reflect, reframe and renew.
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Your brain builds your reality around the stories you tell yourself and they’re likely outdated. You cling to them even when they no longer serve you. Your life is created by your thoughts. At any time, you can rewrite your story. Reflect, reframe and renew.
Adoptees and adoptive parents are being failed by not receiving the support they need.
Parents threatened by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care - BBC News
Families seeking help for their children’s complex needs describe threats of police action against them.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Adoptees and adoptive parents are being failed by not receiving the support they need.
Reposted by Eden Sharp
Another fun day of being unable, as a public health biologist, to provide actionable data to a health provider because post-WW2 shame of illegitimacy sealed my adoption records and birth certificate, and still actively prevents my access to family medical history in the year of our Lord 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Another fun day of being unable, as a public health biologist, to provide actionable data to a health provider because post-WW2 shame of illegitimacy sealed my adoption records and birth certificate, and still actively prevents my access to family medical history in the year of our Lord 2025.
"I accept that no one is trying to hurt me whenever hurtful words or cruel behavior come my way. I accept that unconsciousness occurs as a way for others to show me how deeply they suffer."
- Matt Kahn
- Matt Kahn
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"I accept that no one is trying to hurt me whenever hurtful words or cruel behavior come my way. I accept that unconsciousness occurs as a way for others to show me how deeply they suffer."
- Matt Kahn
- Matt Kahn
Reposted by Eden Sharp
🧵 I have a few thoughts as a single mom of two YA kids who are the sun and moon in my sky and who now live across state lines.
These go out to other parents whose kids have left (for college or a job somewhere else) and are in the throes of grief and bewilderment.
My main message is TAKE NOTES. 1/
These go out to other parents whose kids have left (for college or a job somewhere else) and are in the throes of grief and bewilderment.
My main message is TAKE NOTES. 1/
September 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🧵 I have a few thoughts as a single mom of two YA kids who are the sun and moon in my sky and who now live across state lines.
These go out to other parents whose kids have left (for college or a job somewhere else) and are in the throes of grief and bewilderment.
My main message is TAKE NOTES. 1/
These go out to other parents whose kids have left (for college or a job somewhere else) and are in the throes of grief and bewilderment.
My main message is TAKE NOTES. 1/
Reposted by Eden Sharp
🥚 “It's now been a year since China ended international adoption. Over the course of three decades, more than 160,000 children were adopted abroad, with at least half coming to the U.S. Many of these children are now adults, and they’re looking for answers.” 1/3
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
For Chinese adoptees, the cost of finding answers is high
Birth family search is becoming increasingly common with new technologies.
www.marketplace.org
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🥚 “It's now been a year since China ended international adoption. Over the course of three decades, more than 160,000 children were adopted abroad, with at least half coming to the U.S. Many of these children are now adults, and they’re looking for answers.” 1/3
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
Loss in adoption can be complicated because it represents an ambiguous loss – the loss of people – and much more – that still exist but are physically or emotionally inaccessible to us.
Disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss and adoption - VANISH
Loss in adoption can be complicated because it represents an ambiguous loss – the loss of people – and much more – that still exist but are physically or emotionally inaccessible to us. In this artic...
vanish.org.au
September 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Loss in adoption can be complicated because it represents an ambiguous loss – the loss of people – and much more – that still exist but are physically or emotionally inaccessible to us.
Reposted by Eden Sharp
Language learning takes place across multiple dimensions at once.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Language learning takes place across multiple dimensions at once.
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The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.”
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August 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.”
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