On this week’s episode of the Step Stories Podcast, Host Robin Breuner welcomes writer Tracey Mishel about her adoption and blended-family experience. Adopted through the Louise Wise Adoption Agency, Tracey grew up in Suffern, New York, knowing she was adopted, alongside an older adopted brother, amid family anxiety and conflict. As a high school senior she received a surprise call from her birth mother, Toby, triggering fear from her adoptive parents and warnings from the agency; Tracey initially cut off contact, then later exchanged letters while hiding it from her parents. She eventually met Toby around a friend’s Aspen wedding, met three half-brothers, and describes Toby’s intense push for connection and her work helping others find birth relatives. After conflict, they were estranged for years until Toby’s terminal brain cancer prompted reconciliation, and Tracey maintains relationships with her half-brothers and later connected with her biological father and new half-siblings. She reflects on parenting, writing her book, and advice for open, compassionate adoption relationships
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