S 2, Ep 15 "Baby Be Brave" w/ Michelle McManus

Season 2, Episode 15 “Baby Be Brave” w/ Michelle McManus is now ✨LIVE✨ LINK IN BIO 🎧 We’re back!! We took a break from podcasts for a bit, but we’re back now excited and ready to share more amazing and inspiring episodes. We have incredible guests and stories coming up that I’m so excited to share. So today let’s start with this inspiring one that I did with a very close friend of mine, Michelle McManus from the IGTV live series Baby Be Brave. Michelle is 32 and lives in Philadelphia. Michelle has an Instagram feed called Baby Be Brave where she talks to other adoptees live about their experiences. In todays episode she talks about being a product of rape, being put in an orphanage as an infant in Romania, and then being adopted at 2 years old by an American family. She talks about the effects that it has had on her life and the feelings she’s struggled with about herself because of it. Even though she grew up in a healthy and happy home with her adoptive family, she still always felt she had a missing hole and that she needed answers. When she was 18 she hired a PI to find her birth mother in Romania which only resulted in more heartache and abandonment when her mother basically shut the door wanted nothing to do with her. Michelle talks about all the feelings she has had to deal with because of that, and the feelings she’s dealt with growing up as an adoptee. She shares the true affects it can have someone’s self worth. Her honesty and openness is so brave and I’m so proud of her for being vulnerable and sharing her story. Please give Michelle some love because she deserves it. You can follow Michelle on instagram @babybebrave  ✨Make sure you LISTEN AND SHARE SHARE SHARE! Also don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to this podcast and our YouTube which has the video of our conversation, so you are notified when new episodes are released, AND of course make sure you follow our page on Instagram and Facebook @candleinadarkroom Remember, you can ALWAYS find light in the darkest of darkness✨