{"id":53400,"date":"2016-05-16T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=53400"},"modified":"2016-05-16T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:06:41","slug":"teresa-dillon-finding-your-roots-after-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ja\/journal\/teresa-dillon-finding-your-roots-after-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Teresa Dillon: Finding Your Roots After Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa Dillon was 7 years old when she was adopted from Honduras. There were &#8220;a lot of changes&#8221; and she felt a deep sense of loss. Within years she forgot her Spanish. But growing up in the United States she didn&#8217;t want to identify with being Latina or be seen as <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/why-you-should-dare-to-be-vulnerable\/\" target=\"_blank\">different<\/a> from her peers or her Irish-American parents.<\/p>\n<p>When she got older, Teresa decided to relearn Spanish and moved to Argentina for two years in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/yoganonymous.com\/10-ways-to-reconnect-to-your-body\" target=\"_blank\">reconnect<\/a> with her roots. While in Argentina, she decided she&#8217;d go back to her regular yoga practice upon returning to the United States. That decision led her to complete yoga teacher training. She realized then that\u2014wherever she was\u2014she always had roots in <a href=\"http:\/\/yoganonymous.com\/5-ways-to-find-grounding-sense-of-home-while-traveling\" target=\"_blank\">herself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em>Find more Wanderlust Storytelling videos <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/tag\/wanderlust-storytelling\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nVideo shot and edited by\u00a0Edward Boyce<br \/>\nAccompanying text by <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/author\/kristindiversi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin Diversi<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How one yoga teacher found her roots\u2014and herself\u2014through her 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