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Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian Parents - Christian Adoption, Trauma and Healing, Foster Care, Parenting Adopted Children

Somer Colbert and Christian Parenting

Whether you seek to add to your family through foster care, private domestic adoption or you are called to travel internationally, every adoption story is uniquely beautiful. Yet, each shares a common language of calling, loss, and hardship.As Christian parents we have a deep desire to love and shepherd our children well, but it can be challenging to navigate loss, trauma and how to best love and guide our adopted children. One thing is for sure, adoption is more than a process, it is an invitation

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19:31

Mindful Parenting with Kelly Hamilton Part 1

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2024/01/02

Welcome to the second season of Called to Love, Episode One! I am kicking off this new year and new season with an amazing four-part series with a very special guest: Kelly Hamilton. Kelly is the Founder and Executive Director of "The Connected Life." She helps people build healthy connections to God, themselves, and others. She is a speaker, trauma-informed life coach, and podcaster. She and her husband serve foster and adoptive families in their home in Kentucky. You can find all her links

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Ep 17: Accepting the Call to Foster by Nikki Hertzler

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2023/12/26

This episode features a special guest: Nikki Hertzler. Nikki is a teacher, foster mom, and author of the book "Help! I'm a Foster Parent!" Nikki and her husband decided to accept the call to foster after becoming empty nesters, and it has been a long, hard and beautiful journey to pour into these kids and lift them up to become healthy adults. Nikki and I talk about the reality of fostering, the challenges it can bring, but also the beauty of it, how God uses this to refine our

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Ep. 16 The Fostercare Experience with Tori Hope Petersen

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2023/12/19

This episode features a special guest: Tori Hope Petersen. Tori is the best selling author of "Fostered" and is a sought after public speaker and advocate for those whose stories need to be told, such as the survivors from human trafficking, kids in foster care, and others abused and needing hope.Tori shares her foster story with me, how she was removed from her mother not just once but twice, and went through several foster homes. Tori talks about the good and hard parts of foster care, how

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Ep. 15 More Than Conquerors: Overcoming Anxiety with...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/12/13

This episode features a special guest: Laura Kuehn. Laura is founder and owner of Cornerstones for Parents, where she combines God’s word, writing, and supporting parents. She is a licensed therapist and author of More Than a Conqueror: A Christian Kid’s Guide to Winning the War on Worry. Together, Laura and I discuss trauma behaviors and responses in children, the relationships between the body and brain, and practical ways to help calm a child before the anxiety takes over. Laura also brings up

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Navigating the Holidays as Foster and Adoptive Families

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2023/12/05

Navigating the holidays can be overwhelming for foster and adoptive families. As parents we can feel pressure to curate magical experiences for our kids but those may not always be best. Depending on your child, many common expectations and events may be difficult for your family to take part in due to overstimulation and social anxiety. In today's episode I discuss how to navigate the holidays as foster and adoptive families, how to safeguard from unnecessary frustrations, how to prepare

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5 Practical Ways to Support Foster and Adoptive Families

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/11/28

Welcome back to Called to Love!Closing out our highlight of Adoption Awareness for the month of November - let’s talk about 5 practical ways you can support those who are called to love in the areas of foster care and adoption.Whether you are waiting for your child or first foster placement or in over your head and have no idea how to answer when someone offers help - today’s episode is for you! FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS:I have such a passion to see the big C church step in to this area of service beyond

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Conversations with an Adult Adoptee with Andrea...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/11/21

Welcome back to Called to Love!Today we will conclude with part 2 of my conversation with adult adoptee, author, speaker and Women's Ministry Specialist, Andrea Lennon.I pray you have been encouraged and learned much through her perspective and experience.If you have questions or specific topics you'd like to hear covered on this show, SEND ME AN EMAIL - I'd love to hear from you!Thanks for listening!

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Conversations with an Adult Adoptee with Andrea...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/11/14

Welcome back to Called to Love!Adoptive parents, through no fault of their own, only have one side of the story and experience. Oftentimes it can be difficult to understand the struggles our adopted children experience.Today we have the honor of hearing from Andrea Lennon. Andrea is an adult adoptee and as she will share in today’s conversation, her journey has not always been easy, but God has written her story in a beautiful way and I know she is going to bless you today in part 1 of this

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43:02

Lessons Learned in Our Adoption Journey with Somer & ...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/11/07

November is Adoption Awareness month and to celebrate and bring awareness, I am welcoming my husband Corey to the show to have a candid conversation about our 10 year adoption journey. We hold nothing back as we share honest and raw stories from the many experiences both beautiful and hard and offer insight into how God’s calling doesn't always turn out as we planned but it is always as He ordained. It's not always easy to answer God's call to love when God's calling isn't clear

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24:46

Parenting Your Foster and Adoptive Kids With Confidence

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/10/31

Welcome back friends - today I am talking about Parenting Your Foster and Adoptive Kids with ConfidenceHave you ever struggled with the feeling of not being qualified to parent your adopted or foster child? Do you struggle with the fears that you are irrevocably messing up your child because there were and are things you simply didn’t know…until you learned them - sometimes through messy trial and error?I think all parents feel that way to some degree, even with their biological kids -but there can

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23:48

Safeguarding What is Sacred: Keeping Your Marriage...

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2023/10/24

On the last episode we talked about the reality of spiritual warfare as foster and adoptive parents.The reality is, when you said yes to this calling a war cry was issued against you by the enemy because you stepped into something he delighted to destroy - to take part in the ministry of reconciliation.Oftentimes the attack is aimed at your marriage because the enemy knows a husband and wife unified in their obedience to their calling is a force to be reckoned with. Therefore, we need to be aware,

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30:50

This Means War: Understanding the Reality of...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/10/17

What do you think of when you hear the term spiritual warfare?When you said “yes” to foster care or adoption you agreed to step into something the enemy of our souls delighted to break and when you did, the enemy said “this means war” Where there is declaration of war, especially when it comes to our families, we have no choice but to stand up, armor up and fight - but how? In today’s episode we are going to focus on the spiritual warfare adoptive and foster families face. We are going to talk

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Equipping Foster and Adoptive Parents with Travis...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/10/10

Did you feel like an expert when God called you to adopt or foster?I sure didn't. While we learn along the way, it's always helpful to have an experienced and expert voice to speak into tough topics like trauma, child development and mental health. In this episode I sat down with author and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Travis Thompson. Travis brings clinical expertise to today's conversation with extensive experience in addiction therapy, mental health and outpatient clinics

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Reframing Your Mindset As A Christian Adoptive...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/10/03

Welcome back to Called to Love - today we are finishing out our intro series: Reframing Your Mindset as A Christian Adoptive Parent and I pray you have been encouraged so far - As we consider everything we have discussed so far in this series, notice the action words…reflect, remember, establish, surrender. Saying yes to adoption or foster care requires intentional and ongoing action and for our last episode in this series I want to add one more word to that list of intentional actions…embrace -

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Reframing Your Mindset As A Christian Adoptive...

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2023/09/26

Welcome back friends! Today on the podcast we are continuing on with Reframing Your Mindset as a Christian Adoption parent...Today’s topic is surrendering your fears - this is such a big one because, no matter where you are in your journey - there is always something you can choose to be fearful about. And usually our fears are expressed through the questions we ask. Adoption comes with countless questions, unsettling risks and a good amount of fear. Once you sense the Lord’s prompting to take steps

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23:06

Reframing Your Mindset As A Christian Adoptive...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/09/19

Today’s topic is Remember Your Why. And this is an important one because, it can be really easy to get caught up in the emotions, the excitement and the overall Hallmark idea of it. But the truth behind adoption is there is loss, grief and sometimes trauma and we as parents need to balance our perspective between the beauty and the loss to help us discern how to best love and guide our children. There is more to this calling than just the Insta-worthy arrival pics…much more - and today we are going

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23:18

Reframing Your Mindset As A Christian Adoptive...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/09/19

Today on the podcast we are continuing on with Reframing Your Mindset as a Christian Adoption parent...Today’s topic is Establish Your Expectations. It is so easy to begin to craft our expectations for who our adopted child will be, how fast the process of completion will be and what family life will look like when your child comes home. Without realizing it, many of the struggles adoptive parents face with their journey and with their child are the result of unrealized expectations that haven’t

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Reframing Your Mindset As A Christian Adoptive...

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/09/12

I am so excited the time has finally come and grateful to be with you as we kick off this brand new podcast highlighting what it means to be called to love as adoptive and foster parents and right from the beginning I want to establish the framework and the mindset through which we will discuss every topic….and trust me, we are going to dive into many different topics during our time together from attachment, trauma, post-adoptive depression, how to love your kids when they rebel, how to navigate

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Trailer

Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian... ·

2023/09/05

Whether you seek to add to your family through foster care, private domestic adoption or you are called to travel internationally, every adoption story is uniquely beautiful. Yet, each shares a common language of calling, loss, and hardship.As Christian parents we have a deep desire to love and shepherd our children well, but it can be challenging to navigate loss, trauma and how to best love and guide our adopted children. One thing is for sure, adoption is more than a process, it is an invitation

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