25. Finding Beauty in Brokenness: The Heart of a Foster and Adoptive Mom

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Find the Good Mamahood

Katlyn

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Each episode features tools, resources, advice and encouragement for moms! Join my friends and me for honest chats about the highs and lows of motherhood and our favorite resources, tips and tricks. We’re on a journey to share the good we’ve found and find joy right where we are.

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25. Finding Beauty in Brokenness: The Heart of a Foster and Adoptive Mom | Mandi Brown

Find the Good Mamahood

46 minutes 53 seconds

11 months ago

25. Finding Beauty in Brokenness: The Heart of a Foster and Adoptive Mom | Mandi Brown

Friends, did you know that November is Foster Care and Adoption Awareness Month and National Adoption Month? A couple years ago I didn't know anything about these, or November's annual Stand Sunday observed by many American churches either. Honestly, I didn't know much about foster care at all.

All that changed when several of my friends became foster parents, and I have been on a journey to learn more and support this community ever since.

Listen in as I learn from my friend Mandi, a foster and adoptive mom who now works to support foster and adoptive families through an organization called Foster the Family. I can't wait for you to hear about the beauty and hardship weaved into foster care and Mandi's deep compassion and wisdom.

Here are some highlights: foster care 101, Mandi's experiences with 18 foster children and 4 adoptions, relationships with foster kids' biological families, and ways you can support and join the foster care community.

Mamas, you and I have a unique light to bring to the world to our children and also to other children around us. Some of them may come into our homes for a time or even stay forever. I invite you to think of the children and parents in the foster care world and consider, "How can I share this light that I have with others?"

Extra Stuff:

TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) is a “training method which offers a way to build attachment as you parent kids from hard places.” Learn more here: Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development⁠.

Foster The Family: support groups map, Foster the Family Founder Jamie Flinn @fosterthefamilyblog
Books: Foster the Family, Filled: 60 Devotions for the Foster Parent's Heart, The Connected Parent: Real Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment, The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to your Adoptive Family, The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions, Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care
Podcasts: The Resilient Caregiver Podcast (Mike and Kristin Berry), The Forgotten Podcast, FTGM episode on creating meaningful traditions

Check out Project Belong, an amazing organization equipping Northern Virginia churches to support foster, adoptive, kinship and struggling biological families.