Stable Moments Podcast

In this episode Rebecca Hubbard, LMFT gives us practical tools for when this work gets tough. She gives us suggested language to use, and sensory activities to encourage healing and regualtion. Whether you are a foster parent or just a parent, a mentor, or a program director, there is something for anyone interacting with kids in this episode.

Rebecca J. Hubbard is a master's level Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, children's book author and co-owner and co-founder of Global Equine Services For Professionals, LLC.

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Karen Doyle Buckwalter joins us this week to finish our conversation about practical parenting interventions when our children are challenging. She also gives us a peek into her new book, Raising the Challenging Child.
She also has her own podcast Attachment Theory in Action

Karen Doyle Buckwalter, MSW, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and clinical social worker. She specializes in working with attachment and trauma issues in children and adults. She was the co-editor of the book Attachment Theory in Action and co-author of Raising the Challenging Child

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Karen Doyle Buckwalter joins us this week, and next, in a two part episode to give us some practical parenting interventions when our children are challenging. She also gives us a peek into her new book, Raising the Challenging Child.
She also has her own podcast Attachment Theory in Action

Karen Doyle Buckwalter, MSW, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and clinical social worker. She specializes in working with attachment and trauma issues in children and adults. She was the co-editor of the book Attachment Theory in Action and co-author of Raising the Challenging Child

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Too many kids age of foster care without a place to live, an education, a job, or even a drivers license. Pamela Bress, Founder of Ready for Life Brevard, shares her experience as an attorney fighting for basic needs for young adults aging out of foster care and how that drove her to start a wrap around program, to meet all needs of this population, so they can become healthy, self-sufficent adults.

Check out Ready for Life Brevard here.

Rebekah was adopted at birth to a white family, in an all white community. She talks to us about how it felt to be the only black girl, how it impacted her ability to develop a sense of identity and how it didn't prepare her for being Black in America.

Her perspective allows us to understand what matters to transracial adoptees and how we can be better inclusive of our childrens' cultures.

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Dr. John Degarmo is the author of several foster care books, including the new book The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families, the best selling book Faith and Foster Care,  as well as the foster care children's book A Different Home: A New Foster Child's Story.  He is the director of The Foster Care Institute, and acts as a consultant to foster care agencies and legal agencies across the USA.

On today's episode he discusses his journey fostering over 60 children and his work with the Foster Care Institute offering over 50 hours of training for foster parents.

He also has a facebook group with over 16k members. You can access that here.

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In this episode we sit down with Tonja Tristan Johnson who has adopted 7 children and fostered countless more. Her and her husband moved from a smaller suburban house with two cars to a farm house and a 12 passenger van.

She shares the importance of giving children a place to land. She tells her children they should never feel lucky to have been adopted. She instills in them that they deserve a forever home and that God loves them. Her life is dedicated to meeting her children's needs even if that means buying a cow and constant reminders to feed said cow.

She recently started a youtube channel that you can see below.
Check out Farm Mama of 8 on Youtube

In this episode join Dina Shale as she shares how her child trauma history inpired her to find healing through horses, and ultimately open The Way of the Horse to serve others.

She explains the benefits of equine therapy as opposed to talk therapy and how she doesn't focus on dredging the past back up and reliving trauma. Rather she equips people to stay attuned to the parts of us that are seeking healing and invites us to work with our inner child to heal those parts.

Check out her website here.

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Erica Shubin is a mom of 5 chidren, three biological and two children from Ethiopia. When her black son and daughter wanted to ask neighbors about picking up some odd jobs to make extra cash, Erica hesitated to let them go, because she worried about how the world would respond to the color of their skin. Against her gut feeling she let them go, they were 9 and 11 and ended up with an officer at her door responding to a robbery in progress. This experience gave her perspective on just how pervasive racism is and how deeply it hurts lives. 

On this weeks episode we speak with Bekah Bischoff, who always knew she wanted to adopt a child, and that calling was confirmed by complications with her second birth where she had a full hysterectomy. 

Although it took her time to heal from her birth trauma, she and her husband slowly worked toward starting the foster to adopt process. 

Bekah tells us what it is like to go through the process of fostering children you so desperately want to adopt. 

She provides great insight on how to talk to your biological kids about fostering and adoption.
She shares the deep pain of not being able to adopt or keep fostering a child that has been placed in her home.
And she shares with us how scared she was that she wouldn't be able to love another child like she does her biological children, and how that fear was washed away the moment she held her foster son.