Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao is the founder and CEO of the Center For Family Connections Inc. est. 1995-2012, The Adoption Resource Center est. 1979 and PACT (Pre/Post Adoption Consulting and Training), est. 1982. Dr. Pavao has built comprehensive post adoption services and has done training both nationally and internationally. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has written the book THE FAMILY OF ADOPTION. Her areas of specialty include complex blended families by adoption, step parenting, fostering, kinship, alternative reproductive technologies-specializing in child welfare. As and adopted person herself she understands that healing is deeply personal. This episode focuses on empathy, complex trauma and how we can take action steps to grow and heal at our own pace.