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EPISODE · May 20, 2025 · 47 MIN

Foster Care: The Altar of Motherhood

from Behind the Curtain: Honest Conversations about Foster Care and Adoption · host Rebecca Harvin

Jessica Miles shares her raw, powerful story of loving through the hardest seasons of foster care, demonstrating how her own difficult childhood prepared her to show up authentically for children experiencing trauma. She offers profound insight into what it means to love intentionally when behaviors are extreme and systems are failing.• Loving children the way she wished she'd been loved as a child• Creating safety and protection as foundational parenting values• Learning each child's unique love language and needs• Suffering hearing loss from years of managing extreme behaviors• Finding self-care in small, tangible ways during crisis seasons• Processing personal trauma while parenting traumatized children• Wrestling with faith questions while standing firm in commitment• Using personal pain as a source of empathy and understanding• The transformative power of being known and truly seenShare this episode with anyone walking through hard seasons who needs to know they're not alone. The hard is holy.

Jessica Miles shares her raw, powerful story of loving through the hardest seasons of foster care, demonstrating how her own difficult childhood prepared her to show up authentically for children experiencing trauma. She offers profound insight into what it means to love intentionally when behaviors are extreme and systems are failing. • Loving children the way she wished she'd been loved as a child • Creating safety and protection as foundational parenting values • Learning each child's uni...

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