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Reckoning with the Primal Wound with HHH
July 29, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
$10.00
Hiraeth Hope & Healing’s quarterly (Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct) viewings of the documentary Reckoning with the Primal Wound, followed by a Q&A with Rebecca Autumn. This viewing is available to anyone outside our trio of communities, as we feel it is a must see for everyone!
Your $10 gift will help our Scholarship Fund. We appreciate YOU! Space is limited, no refunds issued.
Filmmaker – Rebecca Autumn Sansom
Rebecca (adoptee) and her biological mother Jill Hawkins (PhD) are the first adoptee and biological mother team to make a feature length documentary about Nancy Verrier’s landmark book, The Primal Wound, which is in it’s 15th printing and translated in 7 languages.
The book The Primal Wound was first published in 1993. Adoptees often refer to it as their guidebook, though a lot of people have never heard of it. The author, Nancy Verrier, M.A., raised both an adopted daughter as well as a biological daughter, and was able to compare her children’s behavior. She became so fascinated with her adopted daughter’s response to being relinquished, that she changed careers. She became a psychologist and wrote her thesis about the separation of a mother and a child. She called this separation the primal wound.