Podcast appearances and mentions of kimberly smythe

Aired Thursday, 6 April 2017, 7:00 PM ET Letting Go Again - Surviving And Thriving After Love And Loss With Kimberly Smythe Healing Your Heart After Loss If there’s one thing that none of us can avoid in life, it is the loss of a loved one. It doesn’t matter how we lose that person – whether through death, ill health, enforced distance, or their choice to reject our love and/or no longer be involved in our lives – loss can be both devastating and life-fracturing. Love and loss are universal experiences and how we move through them can not only have a significant impact on our physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual health, but in some cases even the entire trajectory of our life. Loss is inescapable, and when one is deep in the grip of it, one can feel like the loneliest person on earth. So how do we survive loss? From where do we get the strength to cope with the devastating emotions that invariably crowd in to fill the void left by a loved one’s absence? Is there any gift in loss? If so, how does one let go enough to move beyond the pain and suffering to find it? Author Kimberly Smythe spent decades suffering the overwhelming grief and myriad painful emotions that followed her excruciating decision to give up her first child to adoption when she found herself pregnant at the age of 16. Terrified at the thought of losing the love and approbation of her family, she instead chose to experience a different loss – a decision that, in her innocence, she never foresaw would lead to years of struggling to find a solution to the guilt, depression, grief and self-approbation that would follow in its wake. Years later, when, against all odds, she was reunited with her daughter, Smythe once again found herself having to let go and find a pathway through the loss of her daughter for different reasons. Kimberly Smythe’s book, Letting Go Again, is a deeply personal story about her own experience, but in the telling it nonetheless offers important insights about such universal themes and emotions as grief, loss, regret and self-recrimination that we all encounter at some point in our lives. The gift it offers to the reader is that it calls us to challenge our perceptions about love, loss, acceptance, surrender, relationships, and letting go. Website: http://www.lettinggoagain.com/

We’ve all witnessed emotional “adoption reunions” on daytime TV. But we rarely see what happens when the cameras stop rolling. How do two people, related by blood, but separated by circumstance, cope with trying to bridge the gap and forge a relationship after years of separation, while also endeavoring to get past any pain, guilt, blame and suffering each had experienced along the way.Kimberly Smythe got pregnant at 16 and, certain that a married couple could do more for her beautiful little girl, than she could, gave her child up for adoption. 18 years later, Kim sought out her daughter, but sadly, their reunion was no fairytale.Letting Go Again is the title of Kim’s book, which chronicles her journey through Adoption, Reunion, Separation and Growth. It’s a searing account that raises important questions about motherhood, the damaging effects of adoption, and our definition of family. In so doing it also challenges our perceptions about relationships, acceptance, surrender, and the true nature of love that finds the strength to let go…again.Listen Live to Inspired Parenting Radio Show every Thursday at 7 PM ET on OMTimes Radio, the iOM Radio Network, http://omtimes.com/iom

Aired Wednesday, 29 July 2015, 4:00 PM ETKimberly Smythe gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and then had to give her up. Join us as she tells us her story of how the happiness and completion she expected to feel when her first child was back in her life remained elusive. Kimberly’s book, Letting Go Again is one birth mother’s courageous and compassionate account of giving up her baby daughter for adoption, and their troubled relationship once they are reunited almost two decades later. In her words, “I spent many years of my life wishing I had done things differently. What I have learned is that there is no value in that. There are so many things I have learned. The most important thing I’ve learned is that it has to be okay to love from afar and that letting go of expectations and accepting what is, is not failure, it is freedom.”About Guest Kimberly SmytheAfter living the nomadic life of an Air Force brat, Kimberly Smythe spent twenty-six years in Hawaii, which still holds a special place in her heart. She has four grown children, three of whom call her mom. Today, Kimberly lives in the great Northwest where she shares a home with her wonderful husband and their two dogs.Her Website: http://www.lettinggoagain.com

Aired Wednesday, 8 July 2015, 2:00 PM ETToday’s Rising Stars are Khartika Goe and Kimberly SmytheKhartika Goe is a metaphysical researcher and writer and teaches children how to use and expand their energetic abilities.After, eighteen years of wondering about the daughter she had given birth to in a home for unwed mothers Kimberly Smythe was about to meet her.About Guests Khartika Goe and Kimberly SmytheWhile pursuing rigorously academic graduate work at Columbia University, Khartika Goe began researching metaphysical dimensions. Her passion is now writing and lecturing on the unknown and the mysteries of the universe, and in the course of her extensive travels around the world she has notably captured other dimensional beings and planes of existence on film. Prominent esoteric authors, researchers and documentary filmmakers have asked to use her accounts and photos in their own research and work on the multidimensional realms. She is currently focused on helping children with developmental and physical disorders use their energetic abilities, and she is in the process of establishing a special school to teach these kids how to develop their energetic potential.Her website is: www.thetogetherness.com We’ve all seen the Hollywood, Oprah style adoption reunions on TV with hugs and kisses all round for the parent and child reunited. But in reality those warm and fuzzy feelings often don’t last for long. Above 60% of adoption reunions actually end in tears. Kimberly Smythe’s reunion with her daughter Kelcey, after 18 years apart, is one such case. Her story is one she has longed to tell, and in her book LETTING GO AGAIN: A Birth Mother’s Tale of Adoption, Reunion, Separation and Growth, she candidly reveals the trauma of giving up her child along with the complicated and emotionally fraught efforts to reconnect with her once they were reunited. Kim has experienced the stigma society attaches to the ‘birth mothers’, who often suffer alone and in silence.For more information go to: http://www.lettinggoagain.com

Letting Go Again is one birth mother’s courageous and compassionate account of giving up her baby daughter for adoption, and their troubled relationship once they are reunited almost two decades later.   While many of us have witnessed the emotional “adoption reunions” on daytime TV, we rarely see what happens when the cameras stop rolling. In this compelling true story, author Kimberly Smythe reveals how the happiness and completion she expected to feel when her first child was back in her life remained elusive. Kimberly writes with extraordinary vulnerability, sharing the highs and lows of becoming a teen mom and allowing her child to be adopted, as well as the darkest moments of the heartbreaking, rollercoaster relationship that followed when they were reunited.   Resources Kimberly's Website Purchase Letting Go Again  

Kimberly Smythe's courageous story of finally meeting the daughter she gave up for adoption is not the storybook tale we often hear about in Hollywood.  Kimberly's new book Letting Go Again: A Birth Mother's Tale of Adoption, Reunion, Separation, and Growth honestly and compassionately shares the real, poignant story of Kimberly giving up her baby daughter for adoption and their troubled relationship when they are reunited almost two decades later. Kimberly was born in Madrid, Spain. As a child, she lived the nomadic life of an Air Force brat. She has four grown children, three of whom call her Mom.  Kimberly chose to write about her first child, whom she gave up for adoption, so that others might understand what many women endure when circumstances force them to give up their child. Writing about being a birth mother, or as she prefers to call it, a natural mother, helped her in her quest for understanding. She hopes it will also help others understand what it is like to let go of a child, and then be reunited, only to have to let go again. Kimberly's web site:  LettingGoAgain.com Frontier Beyond Fear music copyrighted by Grammy award winner Larry Seyer, www.larryseyer.com, included in this podcast with his permission.

In celebration of Mother's Day, listen to an interview with Kimberly Smythe. She'll talk about her true story of giving up her baby daughter for adoption almost 20 years ago, then reuniting with her. Theirs was not the typical Hollywood version of an adopted reunion with a happy ending. It was more of a reunion that lead to an elusive relationship from lack of shared history and continued, uncomfortable separation. Through her story, Smythe hopes it will also help others understand what it is like to let go of a child, and then be reunited, only to have to let go again. Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and spiritual lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates.