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Amanda is an author, speaker, licensed social worker, and psychotherapist with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in social work. Amanda has served the adoption and foster care communities through individual and family clinical work, group work, writing and presenting, and working for positive policy change. Her writing and presentations have reached broad audiences through multiple books, magazines, major news and radio interviews, and conferences, and she has engaged with legislators at the state and congressional levels on adoption policy.

Amanda founded Pennsylvania Adoptee Rights and Lost Daughters. She co-facilitates an adoption support group for anyone connected to adoption, and is a contributor to Gazillion Voices Magazine an ...more

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Dumping a Social Worker's Cards on the Table: Adoption Cannot Solve Abortion

"Everyone has strengths within them that can create solutions. They just need some organizing." I repeat this phrase often to my students. I repeat it in discussions about groups. I repeat it in discussions about individual work with clients. I repeat it about work with communities, organizations, and law. I use this statement to preface teaching any framework for helping and change. I hope it Read more of this blog post »

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	Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption From a Place of Empowerment and Peace by Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Julie Stromberg (Editor) , Karen Pickell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Declassified Adoptee: Essays of an Adoption Activist by Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston (Goodreads Author), Julie Stromberg (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted & Fostered Youth by Diane René Christian (Goodreads Author) (Co-Editor), Joanne Bennett (Contributor) , Rosita González (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adoption Reunion in the Social Media Age, An Anthology by Laura Dennis (Editor), Deanna Doss Shrodes , Corie Skolnick (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology by Diane René Christian (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Rosita González (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype by Diane René Christian (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda H.L. Transue Woolston (Editor) , Laura Dennis (Contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston wrote a new blog post Dumping a Social Worker's Cards on the Table: Adoption Cannot Solve Abortion "Everyone has strengths within them that can create solutions. They just need some organizing." I repeat this phrase often to my students. I repeat i Read more of this blog post »
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Amanda shared a quote “I'm ready for the day when Mom loves me too much to keep me, and for every other person who will someday see that I'm not worth holding on to.” Soojung Jo
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Amanda shared a quote “I don't understand this--when people love you so much they are willing to get rid of you. I think if I loved someone that much I'd want to stay with them. It doesn't make sense that love would make a mother leave, and I wonder when this mother will love me that much too. I get the idea that love might be something to both desire and fear, and maybe if we don't love each other too much I won't have to go away again. I wonder why love works for everyone else, but it doesn't work for me.” Soojung Jo
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“The word, 'issues,' is perhaps a misnomer, a gross understatement, or a pale and withered description for very real psychological illnesses and emotional losses. Nevertheless, "post-adoption issues" is a catch-all phrase, and at least it avoid pathologizing adoptees.”
― Laura Dennis

tags: adoption, mental-health

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“Having a blood family means suddenly revising a definition of family that I have, over many years, learned to accept. How can I hold both concepts in my mind or find room for both families in my heart?”
― Soojung Jo, Ghost of Sangju

tags: adoption, memoir, reunion

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“...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have.”
― Soojung Jo, Ghost of Sangju

tags: adoption, memoir, racism, reunion

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“You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom.”
― Soojung Jo, Ghost of Sangju

tags: adoption, memoir, reunion, trauma

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“I don't understand this--when people love you so much they are willing to get rid of you. I think if I loved someone that much I'd want to stay with them. It doesn't make sense that love would make a mother leave, and I wonder when this mother will love me that much too. I get the idea that love might be something to both desire and fear, and maybe if we don't love each other too much I won't have to go away again. I wonder why love works for everyone else, but it doesn't work for me.”
― Soojung Jo, Ghost of Sangju

tags: adoption, memoir, reunion, trauma

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