04/01/2026
✨ Motherhood & Cultural Reconnection as a Korean Transracial Adoptee ✨
“For an adoptee, with little to no exposure to Korean community growing up, attempting to pass Korean culture onto my children felt like a foreigner scanning every page in the translator’s dictionary to form a simple sentence, hoping someone might take pity on her foreignness…”
“…grieving the loss of the life I could have had, one in which the traditions, the practices, the nuances, the turns of phrases, my ancestors’ stories, the history, were all naturally ingrained in my day-to-day being. There is grief for loss of connection, that felt severance with no simple or clear roadmap for return. I’ve felt as if I was flailing around, sometimes so aimlessly, guided by pure faith that my hands would land somewhere tangible and vaguely recognizable.”
“Inside the longing lives a tear-welling treasuring, an ancestral appreciation, another breadcrumb leading home…”
The full blog post can be found on my website under the Resources page: rootandreturnwellness.com/resources 🫶
