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Jennifer G. Hiltebeitel

Jennifer G. Hiltebeitel

Jennifer G. Hiltebeitel is a Certified Enneagram Coach and adoptee who runs Through Your Lens Enneagram, helping fellow adoptees use the Enneagram for identity and healing.

Aug 27, 2026

4:31
So can you share your story, however you feel comfortable sharing it, whatever parts feel right to share today?
4:38
I was born during the baby scoop era, but I was not scooped.
4:44
I was with my biological parents and both of them chose to abandon me and my younger brother when I was two and a half.
4:53
So we entered the foster care system and my brother went directly to our adoptive parents.
4:58
I was in a couple other foster homes and my parents wanted to adopt him.
5:03
And because he was a baby, I was an older child.

14 MINS LATER

19:14
So how do you hold it differently?

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