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MythBehaving with Jean Widner
This season, Mind Your Own Karma is focusing on healing and the reminder that our journey is uniquely personal. Hosted by Melissa Brunetti, each episode explores a wide range of topics: trauma and addiction, to self-awareness, somatic work and holistic health. Healing isn’t one-size-fits-all—it’s about tuning into your own experience, making choices that align with your personal growth, and embracing the fact that what works today may change tomorrow. What’s your personal healing combination? Tune in and find out.
Jean, from Boulder City, Nevada, shared that her raising parents had their flaws, from addiction to enablement, but she knows they loved her and they did the best they could with what they had in their toolbox.
Searching for her birth mother, the woman was found quickly, their resemblance was shocking, and after discovering some disturbing facts about the woman’s past, maternal reunion remains an unmet need for Jean. However, when she learned there would be no reunion, Jean could not have been in a better place than among other adoptees.
This is Jean’s journey.

S2E82 CONVERSATION WITH JEAN WIDNER, AND THE ADOPTION PARADOX
Jean was born in 1965 in Spokane, WA at a Salvation Army hospital. Her birth mother came from North Dakota. Jean had a mostly good adoptee experience, and her parents were really wonderful, good people. Her dad was an educator and her mother a nurse. Not to say there weren’t challenges growing up, as Jean’s mother was addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol by the time Jean came into their lives.

Thriving Adoptees – Let’s Thrive