Jori was adopted at birth, then she gave up her daughter for adoption. How these events brought her closer to her Heavenly Father.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"Going through years of therapy and working through adoption trauma for myself and placing my own baby for adoption has always been a very big pain point for me because I was placed for adoption and didn't have a choice. That choice was my birth mom's choice. And then I turned around and placed my baby for adoption and she didn't have that choice. Even though I felt like that was the best thing to do for us at the time, I still struggle with that. We actually have opened the adoption up more and we have had some deep discussions about what it means to be adopted, what it means to be a birth mom and how hard it can be. It's never that the baby is not wanted. They are always wanted. I always want to reiterate that with her and with all adoptees that might feel that way. That is always a bittersweet part of my story. But there is also joy, you know, what is sorrow and pain without joy and happiness? Even though I love my biological mom dearly and my half siblings, I can't imagine my life without my adopted family, who I'm sealed to. I love the life that I've created and the relationships I have with my siblings and my nieces and nephews and my sweet parents who raised me in the gospel. Who knows if I would have had that without being adopted."

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast. Well, Jory, I am so excited to have you on the podcast. We were just chatting about how you know my sister-in-law, Brooke Stone, just such a small world. My sister-in-law Brooke Stone just such a small world my sister-in-law Brooke is in the
0:26.7	Mercy River singing group and so I was actually at Deseret Book with my daughter the
0:31.7	other day and there was the Mercy River CD on the shelf and my
0:35.8	daughter's like, Mom, that's Am Brooke, what the heck? Oh my gosh! And she was like so starstruck and anyway my sister-in-law is a celebrity and she's amazing and
0:49.3	a incredible singer so anyway that's so awesome that you know Brooke. I know she is because I grew up on the East Coast. We didn't have a ton of
0:59.2	events and activities and things to go to but a lot of us women when timeout for women came we went no matter where it was and so I'm kind of sad that they're shifting years back east but I'm thankful for all the events and things we have here in Utah.
1:15.0	Yeah. That's fun.
1:17.0	Awesome. That is so cool. I love that so much.
1:20.0	Let's just go ahead and jump in. I'd love to start wherever you want to start.
1:24.0	All right. My name is Jory Victory and I grew up on the East Coast, like I said, in the small state of Delaware, Delaware actually I've listened to your podcast a ton and I love everyone's stories about coming back
1:39.3	not necessarily just a church but to the gospel.
1:42.6	And I feel like that's been my whole journey.
1:46.2	It's coming back, it's stepping off, it's coming back.
1:49.2	I feel like I'm a lifetime converter
1:53.4	I was adopted from foster care when I was six months old my story is
2:00.1	intertwined with adoption since I was little and my parents did not grow up
2:06.4	members of the Church of She's Christalary Saints. They had the missionaries
2:09.6	knock on their door as a young couple and they decided to take the discussions and they loved
2:17.3	having the spirit in their home and they couldn't deny it and they decided to join the church and then they had their children, their three children and then my mom got her tubes tied because three in three years is a lot right yeah and and
2:37.2	they thought they were done but my mom had this aching in her heart for another
2:41.5	baby and so then 10 years later they adopted me.
2:46.8	Oh, and yeah, it was crazy. 10 years later they adopted me and I was just this itty bitty little thing I was born at 26 weeks I was a really
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