{"id":11290,"date":"2022-10-10T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T07:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anxietycanada.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=11290"},"modified":"2023-04-30T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T00:21:26","slug":"lise-laforge","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.anxietycanada.com\/podcast\/lise-laforge\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption, Anxiety and Finding the Truth with Lise Laforge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After learning she was adopted as a child, Lise Laforge spent years looking for her birth mother, only to deal with a long struggle to accept the shocking truth that her mother was an unhoused person she\u2019d been passing on the street for years. Now, Lise is an advocate for the homeless and the mental health challenges they often disproportionately endure.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Did you know that anxiety and other mental health conditions, like schizophrenia and depression, can drastically impact the trajectory of a person\u2019s life?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this episode of #OurAnxietystories, Lise Laforge reflects on her childhood and how it\u2019s connected to her anxiety journey. At age 8, Lise was told she was adopted, which eventually led her to search for her birth mother. At 21, Lise received a call from Children\u2019s Aid to say that they\u2019d found her mother, but the news of her identity sparked an anxiety attack: Lise learned that her biological mother was a homeless woman she\u2019d encountered before. She also learned that her mother had schizophrenia that went untreated for decades and had been a victim of domestic violence. Through learning about her mother, Lise gained a new understanding of homeless communities and some of the root causes of homelessness. 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