Adoption Wise

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How do you connect well with kids over a large range of stages?

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Mentor Moments give you a chance to join the conversation as we answer a listener question. These episodes guarantee we're providing the most helpful tools and resources for exactly where you are.

This week's question is:

How do you connect well with kids over a large range of stages?

Share your experience and advice in our private Facebook group or ask your own question for a future episode. Click here to join.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Have you ever wondered why you feel so overwhelmed when your child behaves in a certain way? What is it about a tone of voice that makes your heart race?

In today's episode, Kristin Berry joins us to talk about understanding childhood trauma and how this knowledge will transform the way you parent. This conversation is filled with compassion for you and your child and offers hope for the long journey of parenting.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links:

Honestly Adoption Website

Honestly Adoption on Instagram

Honestly Adoption on Facebook

Securely Attached: How Understanding Childhood Trauma Will Transform Your Parenting* by Mike and Kristin Berry

Listen to past episodes featuring Mike or Kristin Berry

Click here to register for our upcoming Enneagram Typing Session for Adoptive and Foster Moms.

*This is an affiliate link

Have you ever wondered why you feel so overwhelmed when your child behaves in a certain way? What is it about a tone of voice that makes your heart race?

In today's episode, Kristin Berry joins us to talk about understanding childhood trauma and how this knowledge will transform the way you parent. This conversation is filled with compassion for you and your child and offers hope for the long journey of parenting.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links:

Honestly Adoption Website

Honestly Adoption on Instagram

Honestly Adoption on Facebook

Securely Attached: How Understanding Childhood Trauma Will Transform Your Parenting* by Mike and Kristin Berry

Listen to past episodes featuring Mike or Kristin Berry

Click here to register for our upcoming Enneagram Typing Session for Adoptive and Foster Moms.

*This is an affiliate link

 

One new thing we’re adding in 2021 is understanding adoption through the lens of the Enneagram. This year we invite you to join us on a journey of gaining powerful insight into your experience as an adoptive or foster parent using the wisdom of the  Enneagram as our guide.

The Enneagram helps us make sense of our stories while also giving us insight and compassion for the people we love.

Today we invited four of our friends to share how understanding the enneagram had influenced their experience as foster and adoptive moms. Each one represents a different Enneagram number.

We hope you find these short interviews as fascinating as we do.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links

#85: The Enneagram and Adoption with Jeff and Beth McCord

#20: The Bitter and Sweet of Foster Care Reunification with Jamie Finn

#91: Ethical Orphan Care and Adoption with Whitney Runyon

#96: Race and Adoption Panel

Connect with Ligia on Instagram

Connect with Jamie on Instagram or Facebook

Connect with Whitney on Instagram

Connect with Amber on Instagram

Click here to sign up for Enneagram updates or RSVP for our January 26th Typing Session

One new thing we’re adding in 2021 is understanding adoption through the lens of the Enneagram. This year we invite you to join us on a journey of gaining powerful insight into your experience as an adoptive or foster parent using the wisdom of the  Enneagram as our guide.

The Enneagram helps us make sense of our stories while also giving us insight and compassion for the people we love.

Today we invited four of our friends to share how understanding the enneagram had influenced their experience as foster and adoptive moms. Each one represents a different Enneagram number.

We hope you find these short interviews as fascinating as we do.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links

#85: The Enneagram and Adoption with Jeff and Beth McCord

#20: The Bitter and Sweet of Foster Care Reunification with Jamie Finn

#91: Ethical Orphan Care and Adoption with Whitney Runyon

#96: Race and Adoption Panel

Connect with Ligia on Instagram

Connect with Jamie on Instagram or Facebook

Connect with Whitney on Instagram

Connect with Amber on Instagram

Click here to sign up for Enneagram updates or RSVP for our January 26th Typing Session

 

As we wrap up 2020, Lisa and Melissa reflect on the highlights for The Adoption Connection. We also asked you to tell us about your most memorable gifts. They ranged from comical to heartwarming. This is a fun listen while you prep for the holidays.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links

Exploring Grief, Trauma, and Rejection with the Enneagram

As we wrap up 2020, Lisa and Melissa reflect on the highlights for The Adoption Connection. We also asked you to tell us about your most memorable gifts. They ranged from comical to heartwarming. This is a fun listen while you prep for the holidays.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links

Exploring Grief, Trauma, and Rejection with the Enneagram

At twenty-one years old, Hope O Baker made one of the hardest decisions a person can make: she placed her son for adoption. Afterwards, she struggled with depression, addiction, and overcoming the stigma that surrounds birth mothers. This week, Melissa talks to Hope about some of the unusual parts of her story and about Hope's memoir, Finding Hope: A birthmother's journey into the light.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links:

Hope's Website

Connect with Hope on Instagram

Finding Hope: A birthmother's journey into the light* by Hope O Baker

#23: My 2 Parts in the Triad -Lisa’s Story of Being a Birth Mom and Adoptive Mom

#105 A Birth Mother’s Story of Adoption Reunion with Adrian Collins

Exploring Grief, Trauma, and Rejection with the Enneagram

*This is an affiliate link

At twenty-one years old, Hope O Baker made one of the hardest decisions a person can make: she placed her son for adoption. Afterwards, she struggled with depression, addiction, and overcoming the stigma that surrounds birth mothers. This week, Melissa talks to Hope about some of the unusual parts of her story and about Hope's memoir, Finding Hope: A birthmother's journey into the light.

Click here to download a transcript for this episode.

Relevant Links:

Hope's Website

Connect with Hope on Instagram

Finding Hope: A birthmother's journey into the light* by Hope O Baker

#23: My 2 Parts in the Triad -Lisa’s Story of Being a Birth Mom and Adoptive Mom

#105 A Birth Mother’s Story of Adoption Reunion with Adrian Collins

Exploring Grief, Trauma, and Rejection with the Enneagram

*This is an affiliate link