Welcome to Our Community

This 6-week healing course provides a unique opportunity for you to join other members of our adoptee community as we look at aspects of grief, separation loss, self, and identity in relation to adoption and learn powerful ways to heal.

While much of this course can be completed at your individual pace, I will host a live Zoom call each week that you’ll have the option to join.  You’ll also have the opportunity to interact with others enrolled in the course in our private online community. (Right here on Mighty Networks.)

Join the waitlist here.

• Trauma and the body

• Implicit memory

• The brain and the nervous system and the miracle of neuroplasticity: that our brains change throughout our lifespan and we have control over those changes! 

• Useful resources and practical “hacks” to work with difficult thoughts and feelings. 

• You’ll learn what coping skills from the past continue to be useful and which ones are outdated. We’ll work with the past while firmly rooted in the present. 

• You will have the opportunity to connect with your authentic self as you begin to re-wire your brain for calm, clarity, resilience and joy.

• A printable course workbook with weekly journal prompts and exercises

• Weekly live Zoom calls with Lesli

• A Private Course Community and Curriculum

• Weekly Instructional Audio Lessons

• On-going access to all course materials

Here is what past participants are saying:

"This course was transformational at a time when I needed to find the words to identify my experience. Having the support of the adoptee community helped me find my voice and share my experience in a safe and supportive environment. It has truly been life-changing. I am so appreciative of Lesli and all of the members of the adoptee community!" -B.M.

"It has been like lightbulbs going off within me over the past 6 weeks.  Feeling the validation and support from people who have so many similar feelings. I feel calmer each day." -C.N.

"The course was a safe space to explore coming out of the fog, with a community that felt like coming home. Unspoken thoughts that I never realized I'd had were talked about openly, very supportively. Incredibly validating."-A.B.

"Come Out of the Fog & Into Your Life is an amazing course created by a therapist who is also an adoptee. Lesli gets it because she has walked this journey too. Though the assignments are challenging and sometimes uncomfortable, the resources and support are strategically designed to promote self-compassion and healing. Joining this community has strengthened my resolve to tend to ME and my parts. If you need a safe place to connect with fellow adoptees who are also in various stages of healing, look no further, this course is for YOU!" -S.C.

"This course has really helped me connect the dots and have a perspective that I haven't been able to access before." -K.E.

Join the waitlist here.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]

Hi, I'm Lesli Johnson, MFT. I created this space to provide a community for individuals and families created by foster care and adoption and for others who are curious about the adoptive experience. It’s a place I needed when I was growing up, and a resource my parents would have surely benefited from. This community is a safe space to connect, learn and find answers to your questions. It’s a place to find comfort and validation. Ultimately it’s a place for healing.  I’m committed to raising awareness around adoption issues, elevating the voice of adoptees and providing support and guidance, to adoptive parents, birth parents and families worldwide.