Episode 20 | Sarah Reinhardt

Co-host of Adoption:The Making Of Me Podcast talks about…you guessed it, the adoptee experience.

Sarah Reinhardt is an adoptee and co-host of Adoption: The Making of Me. She is a writer, empty-nester, OCD dog parent, and works in Public Media in Kansas City.

Sarah was born in the baby scoop era in St. Louis, MO, but only by chance – her birth mother’s water broke on the ascent from JFK to St. Louis. When Sarah found that out later, her lifelong obsession with New York City made sense.

Sarah grew up in a small town in Missouri with a younger brother who was adopted, and younger twins (brothers) who were the biological children of her adopted parents.

It was only when Sarah was pregnant with her own child that she began to wonder ‘who’ she was. The search for her biological roots began.

What followed was a reunion with her birth mother and siblings and the discovery that her birth father had died before she was able to locate him.

It wasn’t until starting the podcast and reading The Primal Wound that, in the adoptee universe terms, Sarah’s ‘fog’ began to lift.

Sarah loves providing a platform for adoption stories, and she hopes to be involved in adoptee advocation for years to come.

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