French adoptee, Florence Chabert d’Hieres, Discusses her Origin Story, Country Moves, Work & Family [Ep 27]

Women Who Walk

Born in Sri Lanka in 1984, Florence Chabert d’Hieres grew up in a loving family in Lyon, France with her adoptive parents, an Italian mother and French father. Fast forward to the pandemic: While in lockdown, and working from home, Florence saw a YouTube documentary, "The Stolen Children of Sri Lanka." She learned that as many as 1500 Sri-Lankan babies had been stolen and trafficked during the 1980s and after months of research, Florence discovered that she was one of those babies. Learning that her origin story was not what her adoptive parents had been told and realizing that she would never know the circumstances around how she was separated from her birth mother, Florence transformed this potentially devastating information into something positive, applying it in her practice as an Intercultural Trainer & Cross-Cultural Coach.