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What to Expect While Fostering and Adopting

The Go-to Podcast for Christian Women Who Want to Grow Their Family through Foster Care or Adoption: 　 Do you struggle with constant overwhelm or have way more questions than answers while navigating the foster care system? Are you feeling like you’re losing yourself while trying to help your foster child or heal your adopted children? Do you feel completely ill-equipped with the needs of the kiddos in your home or that you took on more than you should have? What if there was a way that you could navigate the complexities of the foster care system, gain powerful insights into...

The Heart Work of Foster Care: Adoption, Birth Family Relationships, and Trusting God Through your Fostering Journey

53 mins; February 18, 2026

Adopting a Child with High Needs: Mental Health, Medications, and Trusting God Through the Unknown with Donna Kirkwood

33 mins; February 10, 2026

When Your Adoptive Child Walks Away: Trusting God When You’ve Done All You Can

20 mins; September 24, 2025

The Truth About Open Adoption: A Birth Mom’s Story of Loss, Love, and Reform with Sydney Curtin

41 mins; August 02, 2025

How to Navigate College Admissions & Scholarships for Foster and Adoptive Children

40 mins; June 19, 2025

Helping Adoptive Families Heal: A Conversation with April Ficklin, TBRI® Practitioner

45 mins; June 15, 2025

Adoptee to Adoptive Mom: Rebecca Del Pozo’s Powerful Adoption Story

34 mins; June 14, 2025

Inside Foster Care: Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Parenting & Real Solutions with Dr. John DeGarmo

31 mins; May 13, 2025

You Left the 99 to Save the 1: Devin Schubert’s Story of Fatherhood, Foster Care, Adoption, Trauma & Redemption

38 mins; April 19, 2025

Behind the Scenes of Foster Care: DJ Noble on Faith, Family & Embracing the Journey

45 mins; April 18, 2025

Trauma-Informed Parenting & TBRI: Foster Care & Adoption with Nicole Barlow

31 mins; April 08, 2025

From Trauma to Triumph: A Journey through Foster Care, Adoption, Abuse & Redemption with Joseph Pedroza

28 mins; March 14, 2025

What to Expect in Private Adoption: James McLamb’s Story of Faith & Family

33 mins; March 11, 2025

Adoption & Foster Care: An Inspiring Journey to Creating our Forever Family with Steve Wormer

41 mins; February 23, 2025

How to Overcome Fear as a Foster Parent in your Foster Care and Adoption Journey

24 mins; February 14, 2025

Breaking the Cycle: A Foster Child’s Journey to Success After Aging Out of Foster Care

47 mins; January 31, 2025

Leveraging Brain Science to Heal Trauma in your Foster & Adoptive children: Featuring Dr. Caroline Leaf

43 mins; November 04, 2024

5 things every foster parent needs to know while on their foster care or adoption journey.

19 mins; October 21, 2024

Making a difference in the lives of foster children: Interview with Ray Higdon - Foster Care Impactor

34 mins; October 06, 2024

Adopting a Child: Adoption through the Foster care system.

20 mins; October 02, 2024

Lessons learned as a Foster and Adoptive Parent: The Journey from Judgment to Grace

18 mins; July 21, 2024

Trusting God while you're waiting: Adopting through the foster care system

17 mins; July 18, 2024

Leaning on Jesus: Struggling through emotional overwhelm and anxiety as a foster and adoptive parent

16 mins; July 05, 2024

Attachment Disorders in Foster and Adoptive Children Part 2 of 2: Parenting Children with Attachment Disorders

26 mins; May 03, 2024

Attachment Disorders in Foster and Adoptive Chilldren - Part 1 of 2

20 mins; March 26, 2024

Mental Health and Medication Decisions in Foster Care

13 mins; February 15, 2024

Foster parents don't have enough support: What to do about it and how to not make the same mistakes I did as a foster parent.

23 mins; January 26, 2024

Understanding and Overcoming Self-Sabotaging Behaviors in Foster Children

26 mins; January 25, 2024

Difficult Foster parenting lessons: Losing my personal identity, how I reclaimed it and practical tips for you on your journey.

15 mins; January 16, 2024

Getting paid to be a foster parent: Do people take in foster children for the money?

19 mins; January 03, 2024

Building bonds with your foster children: Foster parent attachment strategies

23 mins; December 05, 2023

Christmas with your foster children: A foster parenting guide to celebrating with less overwhelm, more organization and resources for gifts

15 mins; November 29, 2023

Ready for Adoption but unsure which adoptive path to take: 3 different ways you can adopt a child and grow your family.

15 mins; November 24, 2023

Foster Parenting Questions: What to do when you don’t get along with a caseworker and how to plan for success in the future

17 mins; November 21, 2023

Say Goodbye to the overwhelming Holiday season: Top 5 tips for Foster and adoptive parents to help you prepare for the holidays with less stress and more connection.

16 mins; November 15, 2023

Navigating the foster care journey with our daughter: From Foster child to our adoptive child

18 mins; November 08, 2023

Allegations of Abuse and Neglect as a foster parent: how to prepare and what to do if this happens to you

19 mins; October 11, 2023

An unbelievably true story: He was diagnosed with non-verbal autism, labeled as feral and then he began to speak.

29 mins; October 06, 2023

Overwhelmed with choosing the right foster care placements: Top tips on choosing the best age and number of placements for you as a foster parent.

23 mins; September 20, 2023

Getting really clear on your goals and vision as a foster parent with the goal of adoptive through foster care.

24 mins; September 06, 2023

Understanding Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Assessments

21 mins; August 31, 2023

Let’s talk about Mental Health! Strategies for a Foster or Adoptive parent with Anxiety or ADHD

24 mins; August 16, 2023

Top 5 things no one told me but you need to know as a foster parent

25 mins; August 09, 2023

Reactive Attachment Disorder in Foster and Adopted children

19 mins; August 05, 2023

Where it all began, how I became a foster parent and then an adoptive mom of 2.

17 mins; August 05, 2023

Podcast Trailer: What to expect while fostering and adopting

2 mins; August 04, 2023

What to Expect While Fostering and Adopting

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