NAAP Happy Hour 9.20.24 - Lorah Gerald, Chameleon to Butterfly

Join host Marcie Keithley as she welcomes Lorah Gerald.
Chameleon to Butterfly: Transforming to Thrive
Lorah Gerald is a Baby Scoop Era, same-race domestic, pre-Roe adoptee. She is a certified trauma-informed Kundalini yoga instructor and Reiki Master. Along with her work as a yoga instructor, she is an adoptee advocate. She leads the Adoptees Connect Tulsa group. She started the adoptee and MPE private group, The Adopted Chameleons, where she leads an art therapy group and a body doubling group monthly. She also works on the steering and implementation committee in Oklahoma for those affected by adoption and foster care. She works with people in adoption and foster care agencies, adoptive parents, social workers, and therapists to get better mental health care for adoptees and former foster youth in her state. She shares her story on podcasts, blogs, articles, and on social media as The Adopted Chameleon. You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
With her lived experience and years of research, she works to help us all be the best version of ourselves.
When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.