We’re honoured that The Emotional Fingerprint of an Adoptee and our story were featured in

the August 2025 edition of The Wattle Place Newsletter.

In this article, Karen Chaston shares her journey as a sixteen-year-old navigating Australia’s forced adoption era,

the lifelong impact of that experience,

and the decades-long path of reunion and healing with her daughter, Kim.

She reflects on how their shared story became the foundation for The Emotional Fingerprint of an Adoptee:

 a body of work dedicated to fostering understanding, empathy, and connection within the adoption community and beyond.

We’re deeply grateful to the Wattle Place team for helping to raise awareness

of the emotional realities surrounding adoption and for creating a space

where lived experience and healing can be shared openly and compassionately.