Mamas Well - Parenting Conversations on Foster Care and Adoption

Understanding foster care can be overwhelming and has a steep learning curve. It’s easy to find ourselves stuck in a perpetual state of confusion. While part of being a foster parent is learning to accept the various “unknowns” of our child’s future, we can seek answers to many of our questions from those who have who have walked this journey again and again. Knowing what we can know, prepares not only our hearts, but helps us prepare our families, our homes and our communities for the arrival of a child in need. Foster parent mentors, Amber Robinson and Lauren Bedevian, join Tara Hutton this week to answer five 5 questions every foster parent wants to know in just 36 minutes.

• (4:00) How can I prepare for a placement?

• (10:25) What happens when I get the call?

• (15:21) What do I need to know about the first 30 days?

• (22:29) What is life going to look like for the next 12 to 18 months?

• (30:10) How do I navigate the courts and the legal system?

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Raising children who’ve experienced trauma can take its toll on our primary relationships like marriage. On this week’s episode, Tara and Kyle Hutton apply the three pillars of TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention) empowerment, connection, and correction to their marriage. Their conversation covers: - Empowerment and ways to help empower your partner - Connection, deep listening, “seeing” one another, and the intentionality of creating the space to do this. - Correcting thoughts and behaviors as a “self awareness practice” and the reminder that correction in marriage is an inside job. To learn more about TBRI, Trust Based Relational and Intervention https://child.tcu.edu/about-us/tbri/#sthash.phf4J6dn.dpbs

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Awareness is one of the things that the foster adoptive community needs most! This week, host Tara Hutton, talks with TEDx speaker Dr. John De Garmo about a variety of topics including compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, post adoption depression, grief, COVID, and more.

For more of Dr. John's story visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQYUp6sEbY

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