The Resilient Caregiver Podcast

By Mike and Kristin Berry

Kids & Family

What's The Resilient Caregiver Podcast about?

The Honestly Adoption Podcast features real voices, sharing real hope and encouragement to parents on the journey of foster care and adoption. Hosts Mike and Kristin Berry, and Nicole Goerges share open and honest perspectives from the journey of foster, adoptive, and special needs parenting. Their goal is to be real and honest but also bring hope and encouragement to parents, all over the world.

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How Dads Can Build Resilien...

09.20.2023

Being a dad on the foster and adoptive caregiver journey is no easy task. Resiliency, let alone our sanity, seems like climbing Mt. Everest without oxygen. But, it doesn't need to be this way. There is hope. In this episode ...

The Resilient Caregiver Podcast episodes:

09.20.2023 How Dads Can Build Resiliency On The Caregiver Journey Being a dad on the foster and adoptive caregiver journey is no easy task. Resiliency, let alone our sanity, seems like climbing Mt. Everest without oxygen. But, it doesn't need to be this way. There is hope. In this episode ...
09.13.2023 How Asking One Question When Behaviors Escalate Can Change Everything! In the heat of the moment, when your child is melting down, you're on display, or you're just overwhelmed and exhausted, the question that is likely running through your head is "What's wrong with this child?" But, it's the wrong ...
09.07.2023 Introducing: The Resilient Caregiver Podcast! Welcome to The Resilient Caregiver Podcast. We are sooooo excited to unveil the new name, new approach, new conversations, and (each week) new insights. This week, the two of us are talking through the heartbeat behind The Resilient Caregiver (our ...
08.26.2023 Our BIG Announcement: The Resilient Caregiver Is Coming Soon! We've blown the lid clean off on a BIG secret we've been keeping for the past 8 months! On August 30th, our brand new initiative (and name), The Resilient Caregiver, will go live to the world. We're making this change ...
08.19.2023 You Are Loved, You Are Good, And Your Story Isn't Over In this episode, Mike shares some encouragement for foster and adoptive caregivers. Along with that, he also shares an exciting annoucement that you won't want to miss. Here are important links mentioned in this episode... Honestly Adoption's website (to get ...
08.13.2023 How Dads Can Find Connection & Camaraderie In 2016, sensing an urgency to create safe space where foster and adoptive dads could connect with one another, Mike Berry, Andrew Schneidler and Jason Morriss, created Road Trip: A Mountaintop Experience for Foster and Adoptive Dads. They had one ...
08.04.2023 How To Navigate Grief On The Caregiver Journey One of the strongest emotions we'll experience on this journey is grief. How do you work through this so you better help your child? It's not easy. In fact, grief itself, is a journey. We experience this because this journey ...
07.29.2023 How To Provide Good Care For Your Child's Hair As caregivers, we crave good resources. But they can be so hard to find. Fortunately, there are amazing human beings who help us succeed by sharing their amazing and powerful gifts with us. In this episode, we spent some time ...
07.22.2023 How To Advocate For Foster Care Reform Gaelin Elmore found himself in 25 different foster homes, over 13 years as a youngster. Fortunately for him, a kind and caring football coach brought him into his home while he finished high school. Through that turn of events, he ...
07.07.2023 Refreshment, Hope & Insight To Help Caregivers Thrive! Where can caregivers go to find connection, camaraderie, inspiration and hope? We're glad you asked! Registration is open for one of our favorite in-person conference for caregivers, The Replanted Conference. It's happening October 12-14, 2023 in Naperville, Illinois and it's ...
06.30.2023 Helping Your Child Wrestle Through Feelings Of Abandonment The adoption and foster journey can be difficult for our children. Feelings of loss, grief and abandonment can move in and take up residence in their hearts and minds. Fortunately, there are voices of hope clearing the way for understanding ...
06.23.2023 Discovery: Behavior Is A Voice That Tells Us More About Our Children Behaviors can be so hard to handle. Especially when you are overwhelmed and tired. But behaviors are telling us an important story that can help us reframe our entire approach to our children. Where do we begin? The first step ...
06.16.2023 How To Develop Compassion For Your Child Sometimes it's hard to see past the behaviors and into the heart of what's really going on with your child. But once you discover this powerful parenting tool, your journey transforms! We get it. Trust us on this one. In ...
06.09.2023 How To Respond To A Child Who Won't Take No For An Answer" Saying no, not right now, setting boundaries, or emphasizing consequences are all part of the parenting journey. Even the foster and adoptive parenting journey. But there's one aspect of this that often stands at the forefront. It's a big question ...
05.26.2023 How To Respond To Crisis In Your Home At any given moment on the foster and adoption caregiver journey, we can find ourselves in crisis. How you respond, and the plan you put in place, can change everything! We in no way want to freak you out, but ...
05.20.2023 How To Set Healthy Boundaries With Your Children It's a tricky thing to deal with. Boundaries. Where's the balance between connected parenting and boundary setting? In this episode we have an open discussion around this. As caregivers we can often feel taken advantage of, walked on, and just ...
05.12.2023 Listening To Those Who Are Directly Impacted By Foster Care & Adoption Out of all the great resources we have at our disposal as caregivers, there are a few that stand out among the rest. We must learn to listen to them. Our children. Adult adoptees. Former foster youth. And birth parents. ...
04.28.2023 Creating Positive Relationships With Birthparents There is so much unnecessary fears and misunderstandings surrounding birth parents and birth families. In this episode, we're working to clear it up. Last week we were grateful and honored to have the amazing and wonderful Ashley Mitchell join us ...
04.15.2023 Understanding Your Child's Needs And Your Responsibility On the journey of healing and fostering healthy attachments, we must be tuned in to the needs our children have. But also our responsbility as caregivers. How do we pinpoint both? We're fortunate to be connected to brilliant minds, and ...
04.07.2023 How To Successfully Communicate Your Child's Needs With Providers Is there any way to successfully communicate my child's needs to a medical professional that helps me get results? Big question! Navigating our children's special needs on a daily basis is hard. But what makes the journey even harder is ...
03.31.2023 How To Regain Compassion For Your Child The title of this podcast episode likely prompts a reaction from anyone reading it. After all, the hardships of this journey take quite the toll on us. How do you find the strength and insight to regain compassion for your ...
03.24.2023 How To Advocate For Your Child With An FASD The FASD journey can be very defeating and very frustrating. Mostly because, we are constantly dismissed by providers, or made to feel like we're a bit crazy when we try to get answers. How do you break through this? We're ...
03.17.2023 Understanding What Resiliency Is Not The caregiver journey is hard and full of challenges. We hear words like resiliency and we often get the wrong idea. What does that really mean? It's not what you think. Resiliency is not perfection, it's not about never failing, ...
03.03.2023 Insight That Will Transform Your Parenting Journey From the memorable quotes, to the "ah-ha" moments, to the tears, to the on-camera dancing....the dancing....oh the dancing! Insight Virtual Conference 2022 was one for the history books. And now...we get to do it all over again! That's right...Insight Virtual ...
02.25.2023 How To Overcome Feelings Of Guilt On The Caregiver Journey As caregivers, we often carry around immense feelings of guilt from something we said, or did. How do we face these feelings, let alone overcome them? It's a question all of us have had at one time or another. And ...
02.19.2023 Understanding How The Body Keeps The Score While it may be hard to see and understand, our bodies are super computers that capture and hold data for years. This has never been more the case, then with our child's trauma history. You've probably found yourself scratching your ...
02.10.2023 How To Effectively Respond To Your Child's Behaviors One of the most confusing and overwhelming aspects of the foster and adoption journey, is trying to make sense of behaviors that come from trauma. Where do you even begin? Let's be honest... Trying to make sense of our child's ...
02.03.2023 Why Does My Child Reject Me? Rejection hurts, no matter who you are, or the circumstances. It especially stings when it's coming from our children. Why does it happen, and how can we respond? In this episode of The Honestly Adoption Podcast, we're sharing an insider's ...
01.21.2023 Readjusting Our Expectations Of Ourselves And Our Children This journey is long and can often be defeating. The fact is, parenting is hard. Sometimes, in the face of it all, we just need some solidarity. We need to know that we are not alone, and we need to ...
01.13.2023 Your Child's Behavior Is Not About You It's really, really, really hard to believe this when you're in the middle of it, but the behaviors you see in your children are not about you. They're a window into something much bigger. In short, the behaviors you are ...
12.30.2022 How To Build Connection With A Child Who Consistently Rejects You We're concluding our special podcast series, The Insight Archives, with a question that many parents wrestle with: How do I build a connection with a child who consistently, and constantly, rejects me? You pour more love, and time, and energy, ...
12.23.2022 How Transracial Adoptive Families Can Thrive It's week 3 of our end-of-2022 podcast series, The Insight Archives, where we're sharing some of our favorite sessions from both the 2021 and 2022 Insight Virtual Conference replays. This week, our good friend Ligia Cushman joins us to talk ...
12.16.2022 How To Navigate The Online World With Vulnerable Children It's week 2 of our end-of-the-year podcast series, The Insight Archives. We're sharing 4 amazing sessions from the 2021 & 2022 Insight Virtual Conference! In this episode, our good friend Chuck Hagele shares valuable insights into the online world and ...
12.09.2022 How To Respond To And Effectively Manage Crisis At some point, the odds of your family being in the middle of a crisis are great. It kinda sorta comes with the territory of the foster and adoption journey. In that moment, what do you do? We've been in ...
12.02.2022 How Former Foster Youth Carry A Lifelong Connection Into Adulthood The story of foster care can often be heartbreaking. Especially when a child ages out of the system and finds themselves on their own. But, what if a stronger bond existed than what we can see with our eyes? We ...
11.25.2022 Creating A Path Of Change And Empowerment For Women We had the opportunity to sit down with Lata Hamilton who is a leaderships expert and adult adoptee living in Australia. She has an amazing story that will bring hope and empowerment to women worldwide, but also everyone who listens ...
11.18.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 12): Telling A Different Adoption Story We love heart-warming adoption storylines. And this week, we are excited to share an interview with Preston Pouteaux, one of the producers of a new documentary called "I'll See You Later." I'll See You Later is a documentary that tells ...
11.11.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 11): A Resource That Brings Awareness & Safety During Traffic Stops You may have just had a double-take when you read the title of this episode! What in the world does safety during a traffic stop have to do with the foster care and adoption parenting journey? A lot, actually! Many ...
11.08.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 10): How To Kickstart Success For FASD Caregivers Welcome to our super duper special episode of The Honestly Adoption Podcast! We're all about surprises here at Honestly Adoption and we have a big one today. Our good friend Jeff Noble, from FASD Success jumped on Zoom for a ...
11.05.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 9): A Conversation About Racial Identity Development, Trauma, & Relationships We are pleased to welcome Dr. Abby Hasberry, Ph.D. to The Honestly Adoption Podcast. She is an Executive Educational Leadership Coach & Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Associate. In addition, she is also an adult adoptee and birth parent. A ...
10.28.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 8): "Brain-Based Resources That Help Caregivers Thrive." We are pleased to welcome back our good friend, and therapist, Jessica Sinarski from Brave Brains. Jessica is a highly sought-after therapist, author, and speaker. Extensive post-graduate training and nearly 20 years as a clinician and educator led her to ...
10.20.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 7): Stories & Soundbites That Transform Last week, we spent time with some of our closest friends at The Replanted Conference in Chicago, IL and it was AMAZING! We featured this valuable resources on a previous show in this series, but then we took it a ...
10.07.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 6): The Global Mission Of Reunification It's Part 6 of our podcast series, Resources That Transform. This week we're replaying an awesome interview we did with Brandon Stiver from 1Millionhome. 1MILLIONHOME is all about reunification. And our guest for this episode, Brandon Stiver, is helping to ...
09.30.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 5): The Importance Of Accurate History & Where To Find It One of the things we LOVE about hosting this podcast, is the deeply valuable lessons we learn from our guests. We intentionally schedule guests who challenge us, inspire us, and motivate us. This discussion with Marcie was one of the ...
09.23.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 4): Providing Dignity & Support For Children In Foster Care It's Part 4 of our podcast series, Resources That Transform. For this episode we're sharing a highly valuable and transformational resource that is making an impact in the foster care system! We are excited to share the good work that ...
09.16.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 3): A Few Of Our Personal Favorite Resources It's Part 3 of our podcast series, Resources That Transform, and we're going Oprah style and handing out awesome resources like cars. Okay, maybe not quite to that magnitude, but this list is pretty awesome! We wanted to take a ...
09.09.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 2): How To Find Refreshment As A Caregiver It's Part 2 of our brand new podcast series, Resources That Transform. We are excited to jump into a topic that ALL of us can relate to, and need more of: refreshment and rejuvenation! But in all honesty, how in ...
09.02.2022 Resources That Transform (Part 1): How To Provide Good Care For Your Child's Hair As caregivers, we crave good resources. But they can be so hard to find. In this brand new series, we're spotlighting some of the best resources on earth, that help us become the best caregivers possible! We're kicking off with ...
08.26.2022 Resources That Transform (Series Preview) You need resources, we need resources, we ALL need good resources to help us become the best parents possible. But let's be honest..... This. Is. So. Hard. To. Find! We have so many questions, struggles, needs, desires, hopes, wishes, and ...
08.19.2022 FASD Expert Spotlight (Part 4): Overcoming Shame & Disappointment On The Journey As we conclude our special series, FASD Expert Spotlight, we are pleased to share an interview we had the pleasure of doing with our good friend Jeff Noble from The FASD Success Podcast. Jeff is an FASD caregiver turned educator ...

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