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#245: The Science of Caring with Dr. Jon Baylin and Jessica Sinarski
We often get questions about whether teachers or other folks who interact with our kids can have blocked care. Or what about siblings? Also, can you h...
#244 When Blocked Care Affects Your Marriage
Marriage is already hard, but add in parenting children with significant needs and blocked care, and staying married may seem impossible. In this epis...
#243: The Power of Community when Reclaiming Compassion with Kayla North
We believe that overcoming blocked care is best in community. In this episode, we explore the power of community and compassion in the journey of fost...
#242: How a Child’s Mental Health Impacts the Family with Amber Reynolds
Lisa and Amber Reynolds (our Director of Communications) chat about the challenges of parenting a young child struggling with mental illness. Amber sh...
#241: [workshop] What Shapes You: Unlocking Your Family System for Hope
Generally, what we carry into our childhoods and throughout our adulthood is part of a wider series, even patterns, of behavior, traumas, and worldvie...
#240: Tangible Ideas for Processing Grief
Foster care and adoption are full of ambiguous losses and disenfranchised grief. In this episode, Lisa and Melissa discuss the gap between expectation...
#239: Fostering Children of Incarcerated Moms with Rebekah Cook
Rebekah Cook shares her experiences of fostering children of incarcerated moms through a ministry called Jonah's Journey. She emphasizes the importanc...
#238: Finding Life-Giving Connection
One of the signs of blocked care is isolation. In this episode, Lisa and Melissa chat about the importance of building supportive communities in virtu...
#237: [mailbag] PDA, teen borderline personality disorder, despair
This week we answer listener questions such as:
What resources would you recommend for Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)?
Do you...
#236: [workshop] Supporting Kids with FASD Part 2 with Sandra Flach
Many adoptive and foster parents wonder if their child may have FASD or they have a diagnosis but aren't sure what to do next. Last time Sandra explor...
#235: [workshop] Supporting Kids with FASD Part 1 with Sandra Flach
Many adoptive and foster parents wonder if their child may have FASD, or they have a diagnosis but aren't sure what to do next. In Part 1 of this work...
#234: What We Learned in 2023
Last year's reflection episode was a listener favorite, so we're back with another one! With the demands of life and parenting, it can be hard to find...
#233: Maintaining Compassion as a Kinship Provider with Nakole Wooley
Kinship care, the full-time care of a child by relatives, comes with many added relationship dynamics and complexities. In this episode Nakole Wooley...
#232: Navigating Blocked Care When Your Community is Watching
In this episode Angela Coston, the executive director of For the Sake of One, shares her journey as an adoptive and foster mom. She candidly discusses...
#231: [workshop] Calm Your Child’s Stress Response Using Neurodevelopmental Movement with Sonia Story
Many children with early adversity have an overactive stress response that can create challenging behaviors. In this engaging workshop you will see co...
#230: Blocked Care 101
Is your adoption journey turning out differently than you imagined? You had so much love to give, but now you feel ashamed and bewildered by your lack...
#229: Honoring the Mystery in Adoption Stories with Suzanne Stabile
Every adoptee walks through life dealing with the loss of at least their first family, and each one will experience that loss with a different lens. T...
#228: [workshop] Helping Kids Who Live in La-la Land with Robyn Gobbel, MSW
Do you have a child who doesn't seem to be fully present? Perhaps it seems they're often daydreaming or in la-la land. This can be especially frustrat...
#227: [mailbag] preparing for a placement, young adult rejection, spouses with blocked care, choices for child with FASDs
This week we answer listener questions such as:
How do I prepare for every possible scenario and keep balance in our lives?
Why doe...
#226: Navigating the Emotions of Special Needs Parenting with Amy J. Brown
Join Lisa as she talks with Amy J. Brown about the journey of parenting children with special needs. We talk about the moment she realized her childre...
#225: [workshop] Using the TBRI® Nurture Group as a Family with Tristen McGhee
It's easy to get bogged down in big behaviors and forget to have positive interactions with your kids. TBRI® Nurture Groups provide a positive, attach...
#224: [Summer Swap] Finding Connection Through Your Adoption Journey
We often have opportunities to be guests on other podcasts, and we've had some great conversations. We'd hate for you to miss them. Because we're taki...
#223: [Summer Swap] Our Enneagram and Blocked Care Journey
We often have opportunities to be guests on other podcasts, and we've had some great conversations. We'd hate for you to miss them. Because we're taki...
#222: [Summer Swap] Healing from Blocked Care
We often have opportunities to be guests on other podcasts, and we've had some great conversations. We'd hate for you to miss them. Because we're taki...
#221: Questions to Ask Yourself
Our "What We Learned in 2022" episode got such great feedback that we decided to drop in with a mid-year reflections conversation.
We spontaneou...
#220: Why Encouragement May Be Better Than Consequences with adoptee, Stephanie Fast
Abandoned at a young age, Stephanie wandered the war-torn countryside of Korea. Due to her bi-racial ethnicity, she was abused and violated in every w...
#219: [workshop] Successful Vacation Planning for Adoptive Families
Vacations are fun until they're not. The anticipation anxiety, change in routine, and potential overstimulation can make enjoyable vacations feel impo...
#218: [mailbag] connection with adult children, older child adoption, hugs and attachment
This week we answer listener questions such as:
How do I give "yesses" to an adult child to strengthen connection?
Is younger child...
#217: [workshop] Explaining Our Families to Others with Beth Smith Feger, PhD
Parenting kids who have experienced trauma, loss and separation can be challenging. Finding strategies that heal and actually work provides hope to pa...
#216: Breaking Free from the Cycle of Generational Abuse with Former Foster Youth Kristen Thomas
When Kristen Thomas acted out as a child at school, it was a cry for help, but she was instead labeled as a "difficult child." Eventually placed in fo...
#215: [mailbag] birth family, psychosomatic symptoms, blocked care for non-parent caregivers
This week we answer listener questions such as:
How do you talk about love from birth parents when there's been extensive abuse?
Ho...
#214: Reclaim Compassion Book Preview
Is your adoption journey turning out differently than you imagined? You had so much love to give, but now you feel ashamed and bewildered by your lack...
#213: [workshop] Attached to God with Krispin Mayfield
Your attachment style impact ALL relationships in your life - including your relationship with God. Learn how your attachment style impacts your spiri...
#212: The World’s First Embryo Adoptee Comes Full Circle with Hannah Strege
Hannah Strege is the first adopted frozen embryo in the world, adopted through the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption program at Nightlight Christian adoption...
#211: [mailbag] Boundaries, structure vs. nurture, separation anxiety, birth family
This week we answer listener questions such as:
When do you give consequences in your home?
What do we do when the simple act of se...
#210: Exploring How Your Past Impacts Your Parenting
As Dr. Karyn Purvis famously said, "You cannot lead a child to a place of healing if you do not know the way yourself." Making sense of our histories...
#209: [workshop] Connection Matters More than Vegetables with Dr. Rowell
Food challenges are common for children with early adversity. We often get questions regarding undereating, overeating, picky eating, hoarding, and sn...
#208: Using Bibliotherapy to Tackle Tough Topics with Darren and Margie Fink
A lot of children shut down when you try to directly correct behaviors or address fears and past experiences. Story, imagination, and play are great w...
#207: How to Help Your Children Navigate Their Identity and Thrive with Jenn and Josh Hook
How can we help our kids navigate their identity, and sit with them in the unknowns of their story or the grief and loss that comes up?
Jenn and...
#206: [mailbag] the sibling experience, choices, are we making a difference
This week we answer listener questions such as:
What do you do when not everyone in the family wants to foster/adopt anymore?
What...