Grieving What Was Never Spoken: Adoption, Identity & Sacred Healing with Saidi Bess

In this soul-expanding episode of The Empowered Grief Journey, I sit down with Saidi Bess — energy healer, sacred sexual guide, and founder of Sacred Sensual Alchemy — for a raw and transformative conversation about non-death grief, adoption trauma, and spiritual reclamation.

Saidi shares how her grief journey began at birth, navigating the invisible losses of adoption — the separation from biological roots, early emotional bonds, and identity. Her story illuminates a form of grief rarely acknowledged yet deeply felt by many.

Together, we explore what it means to grieve a life never lived, heal inherited and unspoken trauma, and rediscover joy through embodied spirituality and sensual connection. “People think adoption is a happy story. But for the baby, it begins with loss.”