Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

The Only Way Forward is Back with Jackson TerKeurst


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Jackson TerKeurst was born in Liberia and by the age of 7 was a war orphan living in dire circumstances. So how did he end up as an entrepreneur, leader, and now author? Join us for an inspirational conversation about identity, overcoming, and redemption from Jackson's new book, The Only Way Forward is Back.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Cultural differences 
  • How challenges like poverty and food insecurity impacted your first experiences in the States
  • How did your trauma manifest in your behavior at home?
  • How did your family help heal those impacts?
  • Discuss the additional unique challenges that being adopted as a teenager may have presented during your early months and years in your new family.
  • Discuss how you’ve worked on answering "Who Am I?" across the chapters of your life?
  • What were the helpful or healing experiences that went into pulling all those parts of your identity together to create today’s Jackson TerKuerst, husband, father, son, brother, entrepreneur, and now author?
  • What would you say to parents or caregivers who are in the thick of it right now, walking with a child who is struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong?

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