Carolyn: Healing through Poetry

Carolyn Hill-Bjerke is an adoptee born in 1967, during the Baby Scoop Era.
She was born to 20-year-old students at the University of Connecticut.
Carolyn’s biological mother was put into a maternity home. Her father
moved to New York City and became a lawyer. He worked in the
entertainment business.
Carolyn was in foster care for the first five months of her life as her
biological mother resisted relinquishment until she no longer could.
Carolyn grew up in the Washington, DC area as the daughter of a nuclear
engineer and a doctor. She was an artist and writer who was
misunderstood in her early life.
Carolyn attended Syracuse University and moved to New York City in 1989. Carolyn worked as a journalist before launching her career in advertising and film production. Carolyn is still a production executive, consultant, and agent - www.carolynreps.com Carolyn also earned her MFA in Poetry from Columbia University in 2003. Upon meeting her biological father in 2011, Carolyn learned her family name - Pennella - means “of the pen” in Italian signifying a lineage in
writing.
Carolyn met her husband, the artist Wayne Bjerke, in New York City. They
live in Connecticut near where she was born. Carolyn and Wayne have
three children. The oldest, Paige Bjerke, now attends the University of
Connecticut.
Adoption stories, Adoptee experiences, Adoptee insights,
Adopted perspective, Adoption journeys, Adoptee identity, Adoptee voices, Adoption narratives, Growing up adopted, Adoptee reflections,
Adoption realities, Finding family: Adoptee# tales, Adoption insights, Adoptee culture, Adoption challenges, Adoption truths, Adoptee conversations,
Adoptee community, Adoption experiences
#adoptee #adoption #adopteestories #adopteevoices #podcast #podcasting #atmom #npr #steveinskeep #morningedition

[@basketballfan5763]

I started off the show thinking because my mother and me appear to hate each other, I wish I had been adopted and didn't know my mother ..then I started to understand their need to actually know where they come from then I began to realise that for women that don't get on with their mother's poetry is such an escape.. I adore poetry .. Carolyn's poem moved me so much😭.. I so resonate with it... My relationship or lack of relationship with my mother 💔😭 which dominated my life and I believe destroyed my health, is only ever truly addressed with poetry... However silly that seems it is true.. something in poetry fills that gap..

[@themakingofmepodcast4472]

Thank you for sharing. It is all so complicated!