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242 – Your Body Remembers: How Understanding Your Own Grief Helps Your Adopted Child

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241 – Adoptive Parents: You Don't Have to Attend Every Argument You're Invited To

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240 – The 30-Second Reset: How to De-Escalate Before You Damage the Relationship with Your Adopted Child

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239 – Sometimes the Healthiest Thing You Can Do as an Adoptive Parent is Pause

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238 – When Your Adopted Child Explodes: What Took Me 18 Years to Understand

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237 – The Prodigal Principle: What to Do When Your Adopted Child Walks Away

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236 – The 10-Second Biblical Plan to Stop You From Snapping at Your Child

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235 – 7 Ways to Reset When You’re About to Lose It as an Adoptive Parent

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234 – Feeling Like a Bad Adoptive Parent? 3 Truths to Remember When Criticism Hits

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233 – Remember, Ponder, Reflect: 3 Words To Anchor Parents on Hard Adoption Days

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232 – Tears as Prayers: Comfort for Struggling Adoptive Parents

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231 – Is Your Adoption Journey Lonely? The 3 Words Adoptive Parents NEED to Hear

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230 – Let Go of Regret and Reflect: The Mindset Shift Adoptive Parents Need

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229 – Permission to Pause: Stillness for Adoptive Parents in the Psalms

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228 – Life Is More Interesting When You’re Happy — Even With Cancer!

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227 – Drowning as an Adoptive Parent? Simple Tools to Regulate Yourself (with Crystal Luke Worrall)

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226 – The Dangerous Lie Adoptive Parents Believe — 7 Truths That Change Everything

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225 – Calm in the Chaos? A Hope-Filled Practice for Anxious Adoptive Parents

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224 – Does God Really Want You to Adopt? How to Trust Him When You’re Not Sure

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223 – Can Listening Really Bring Peace to Adoptive Parents?

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222 – Is Attachment Really the Root Issue in Adoption? (with Dr. Ray Guarendi)

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221 – How to Stay Hopeful When Adoption Feels Overwhelming (with Dr. Ray Guarendi)

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220 – How the Psalms Help Adoptive Parents Process Their Anxiety and Struggles

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219 – Tim’s Adoption Struggle: The Hidden Pain and Unexpected Hope

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218 – Sitting With Your Child’s Pain: The Power of Empathy for Adoptive Parents (with Jane Baker)

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217 – The Potential Pain of Adoption Reunions and How to Support Your Child (with Jane Baker)

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216 – 5 Anxiety Bible Verses for Adoptive Parents in the Fog of Uncertainty

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215 – Can a Story That Begins in Loss Still End in Hope? (with Adoptee Ayden Lincoln)

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214 – When Faith Feels Distant and Parenting Feels Heavy: Can Journaling Help You Hear God? (with Jenny Fulford)

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213 – Will My Adopted Child Ever Heal? Wisdom from Adoptee Jackson TerKeurst

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212 – When Adoption Stories Hurt: Helping Your Child Through the Hard Moments (with Jane Baker)

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211 – BONUS Minisode: You’re Not Alone! Compassion, Connection & Community for Adoptive Parents

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210 – How to Tell Your Child the Truth About Their Adoption (with Jane Baker)

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209 – 3 Biblical Steps to Eliminate Hurry and Find Peace, Calm, and Rest

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208 – Finding Peace in Pain No One Understands: Psalm 3 for Adoptive Parents

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207 – Encouraging Bible Verses to Help Adoptive Parents Partner with God and Keep Going

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206 – The Worst Advice for Adoptive Parents? And Why It Turned Out to Be the Best

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205 – If You’re Feeling Lost as an Adoptive Parent? THIS Could Be Your Lifeline!

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204 – 5 Encouraging Bible Verses to Guide Adoptive Parents Through Life’s Fog

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203 – Why Do Good People Suffer? 3 Hidden Benefits for Adoptive Parents

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202 – Struggling with Conflict? Here’s a Simple Tool to Empower Your Adopted Child with Erich Nelson

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201 – How Do You Love an Adopted Child Who Won’t Let You In? Jackson TerKeurst’s Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

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200 – Feeling Alone in Your Adoption Journey? You’re Not the Only One

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199 – Is Frustration Stealing Your Joy? 3 Ways to Get It Back

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198 – Anxiety Management for Adoptive Parents: 3 Write Ways to Find Calm in the Chaos

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197 – Feeling Alone as an Adoptive Parent? 7 Anchors to Offer Hope

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196 – Parenting a Child with RAD: An Adoptive Mom’s Story of Heartbreak and Strength

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195 – Are You a Struggling Adoptive Parent? 3 Ways To Restore The Sparkle In Your Eyes

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194 – How Music Therapy Can Make a Difference for Your Adopted Child

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193 – Reflections on Losing My Friend and Anchor of Encouragement

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192 – How to Help Your Adopted Child Out of a Ditch Without Falling in Yourself?

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191 – Phone Calls, Police, and Pizza: Navigating Crisis as an Adoptive Parent

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190 – A Hero Who Never Experienced the Joy of Being Called Daddy

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189 – Why Should Adoptive Parents Nurture Their Relationships?

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188 – Family-Time Matters! The Importance of Slowing Down and Making Memories for Adoptive Families

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187 – Adoptive Parents: Don’t Be Afraid to Go to Therapy

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186 – Manifestations of Unresolved Grief in Adopted Children: The Signs to Look For

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185 – Understanding the Hidden Struggles of Adopted Children

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184 – When Adoption is Like a Car Accident

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183 – Adoption Struggles: Wisdom I Wish I Had Known with Jane Baker

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182 – Would He Hate Us for Loving Him This Much? The Struggles of an Adoptive Parent

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181 – When Adoption Feels Overwhelming! Practice the Respite Principle

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180 – EMDR Therapy: A Powerful Tool for Adoptive Parents Navigating Trauma with Crystal Luk-Worrall

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179 – I Thought I Had Just Killed My Boys

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178 – You’re Not Alone! 3 Stories That Shape Adoption Struggles and Support

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177 – How to be Okay Even When Your Kids Aren’t: Anchor Points for Adoptive Parents

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176 – Adoption Struggles and Support: Navigating Hard Conversations

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175 – Feeling Like a Wreck as an Adoptive Parent? How Practice Leads to Peace

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174 – Practical Techniques to Manage Triggers: Empty Mental Garbage

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173 – Feeling Compassion: The Good Samaritan and the Invisible Wounds of Adoption

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172 – From Anxious to Intentional: 4 Strategies for Adoptive Parents

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171 – Words Like Honey: The Impact of Kind Words on the Adoptive Journey

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170 – The Principle of Generosity: Practical Tips to Refresh and Enrich Adoptive Parents

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169 – Embracing Stillness to Self-Regulation and Inner Calm

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168 – Support for Adoptive Parents: 2 Are Better Than 1 But 3 Is Even Better!

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167 – Affirmations for Adoptive Parents in the New Year

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166 – What’s Your Word? How to Navigate the Challenges of Adoption with a Guiding Word for the New Year

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165 – 3 Steps to Help Adoptive Parents See the Silver Linings in Adoption Challenges

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164 – Journaling Prompts: How Adoptive Parents Can Partner With God to Persist in Life

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163 – How to Support Struggling Adoptive Parents with Compassion

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162 – Embracing the Gift of Time With Journaling

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161 – Feel Alone as an Adoptive Parent? 7 Benefits to Embrace an Anchor of Encouragement

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160 – 7 Ways for Adoptive Parents to Find Support and Achieve Respite

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159 – 3 Ways to Acknowledge an Adoptive Parent and Be Their Umbrella of Encouragement

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158 – Are You Struggling To Trust If God Wants You To Adopt? This 1 Thing Will Help!

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157 – How to Navigate Adoption Struggles with the Anchor of Stillness

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156 – Are You an Overwhelmed Adoptive Parent? Regulate Yourself With the Anchor of a Pause

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155 – How Can Adoptive Parents Regulate Themselves? Retreat and Recharge!

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154 – Anxious Adoptive Parent? Discover This Simple Way to Regulate Yourself

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153 – Why Can’t We Be Like Other Families? A 4-Step Principle to Experience Peace of Mind for Adoptive Parents

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152 – Serenity in the Struggle? Anchors of Support for Adoptive Parents

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151 – How to Navigate the Challenges of International Adoption With Brandon Stiver

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150 – How Adoptive Parents Can Navigate the Struggles of Adoption with Journaling

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149 – Ever Feel Like You’re Not Good Enough as an Adoptive Parent? Put This Principle in Play

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148 – Encouraging Bible Verses to Help Adoptive Parents Persist in Their Adoption Journey

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147 – Sit With the Text? How the Psalms Help Adoptive Parents Navigate the Adoption Journey

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146 – 3 Affirmations When You Feel Like a Failure as an Adoptive Parent

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145 – A Story of Redemption Founded From a Tragic Decision with Jeff Bradford

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144 – 7 Benefits of Journaling: Your Path to the Self-Help Jackpot

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143 – How to Purge Negative Thoughts with 2 Powerful Journaling Prompts

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142 – Journaling Prompts to Turn Obstacles Into Opportunities for Personal Transformation

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141 – How to Use Journaling Prompts to Clear Mental Logjams

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140 – How to Tap Into the Power of Affirmations Journaling Prompts

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139 – Are You a Struggling Adoptive Parent? How to Restore the Sparkle In Your Eyes In 3 Steps

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138 – Do You Relive Reruns in Your Life? Journaling Prompts

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137 – How to Unplug to Unlock Mental Blocks Journaling Prompts

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136 – The ONE Thing Adoptive Parents NEED to Know!

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135 – Stuck in Survivor Mode? What It Looks Like for Adoptive Parents and Adopted Children

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134 – Real, Raw and Emotional! A Must-See for Foster and Adoptive Parents

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133 – Adoptive Parents: How Can I Serve You Better?

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132 – The Children From Her Heart: A Story of Adoption and Foster Care with Dr. Kimberly Offutt

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131 – Adoptive Parent Needing Respite? 3 Ways To Embrace the Anchor of Retreat?

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130 – Remembering Amp: The Impact of Pets on Our Hearts

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129 – The Unexpected, Positive Benefits of Embracing the Anchor of Solitude

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128 – 4 Simple Tips To Find Peaceful Sleep as an Adoptive Parent

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127 – 5 Ways to Help Adoptive Parents Navigate the Anxiety of the Adoption Journey

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126 – I See You! 3 Simple Words To Encourage Adoptive Parents To Never Give Up (ENCORE EPISODE)

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125 – Anxious, Adoptive Parent? 5 Ways To Love a Child of Adoption Trauma (ENCORE EPISODE)

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124 – Journaling: How Journaling Prompts Helped My Son Like Himself Again (ENCORE EPISODE)

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123 – Insensitive, Hurtful Comments? 3 Benefits of Taking Your Frustrations Out On Paper (ENCORE EPISODE)

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122 – Hope for Adoptive Parents? Try 10-10-10 a Powerful Coping Tool for Struggling Adoptees (ENCORE EPISODE)

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121 – Solar Eclipse: A Story of Faith, Family and Encouragement

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120 – Are You in Pain? 3 Reasons to Walk for Wellness

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119 – Biblical Encouragement From the Anchor of Promise

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118 – Struggling To Understand a Bible Verse? 3 Ways To Understand and Anchor to the Text

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117 – Does God Hear Your Tears? 3 Biblical Encouragement Truths From Psalm 56

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116 – How To Support Adoptive Parents: Biblical Encouragement and Prayer

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115 – Remember: Experience Hope and Healing After Tragedy

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114 – Are You Heartbroken and Overwhelmed in Your Adoption Journey? Tomorrow Is a Brand New Day

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113 – Anxious? Try This Simple Anxiety Grounding Technique

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112 – 5 Ways To Get Unstuck and Start Journaling Today

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111 – Journaling Anxiety? 5 Ways to Journal the WRITE Way

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110 – 3 Writing Prompts To Make Journaling Easy and Doable

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109 – Don’t Have Time to Journal? Try a 5-Minute Process

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108 – Anxious, Overwhelmed, or Angry? 3 Journaling Benefits for Adoptive Parents

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107 – 3-Step Parenting Guide for Overcoming Criticism and Self-Doubt

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106 – Worried About Your Children’s Future? Biblical Encouragement for the Adoption Journey

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105 – Healthy Relationships of an Open Adoption With Terri Marcroft

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104 – The Worries, Wishes and Desires of Adoptive Parents

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103 – An Adoption Story About His Teddy Bear: From Trauma Trigger to Symbol of Love With Simon Benn

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102 – POOF! How to Clear Your Mind of Negative Thoughts

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101 – Every Adoption Begins With Trauma, Loss, and Grief! With Author Anna Maria DiDio

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100 – Are Your Holidays Sad? Remember God’s Faithful Love Endures Forever

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99 – From Hard to Hope: 4 Ways to Find Help in the Adoption Journey

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98 – From Grief to Relief: 5 Steps to Process Loss Through Journaling

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97 – From Hurt to Hero: 4 Reasons to Encourage Adopted Children

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96 – Count On Me: Are You an Anchor of Encouragement?

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95 – Who Am I? An Adoption Story of Support, Forgiveness & Compassion

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94 – Because Her Birth Mom Chose Life! An Adoptee’s Story of Love and Purpose

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93 – International Adoption Support: How to Prepare for Your Journey with Dr. Rick Morton

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92 – Foster to Adopt? How to Manage Expectations and Trust God’s Plan with Trish Zenczak

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91 – Positive Adoption Trauma Responses for Adoptive Parents with David Dodd

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90 – When Your Day Is Crumbling? How to Navigate Adoption Trauma Responses with David Dodd

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89 – From Abuse & Rejection to Hope: The Story of a Foster & Adoptive Mom with Trish Zenczak

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88 – Journaling: A Process for Processing Life to Find Support & Respite

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87 – Tools for Teachers: How to Help Students With Trauma Feel Safe? A Conversation With Sherry Green

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86 – When Friends Fail You! How Adoptive Parents Can Heal From Betrayal? With Jane Baker

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85 – How Adoptive Parents With Anxiety Can Cultivate Calm, Ease & Grace

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84 – What is Secondary Trauma? Exploring the Hidden Effects and Finding Hope with Dr. Lisa Hartwell

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83 – Happy Birthday Anchor! 3 Reasons Why Your Voice Matters?

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82 – Happy Birthday Anchor! One of the Best Ways You Can Support Yourself?

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81 – Happy Birthday Anchor! Support for When You Feel God Has Abandoned You?

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80 – Happy Birthday Anchor! 10 of the More Popular Episodes of The Year

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79 – Systems to Help Adopted Families Living With FASD: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders with Laura Hernandez

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78 – Chaos to Calm? A Systemized Solution to Overwhelm for Special Needs Parents with Katie Keene

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77 – Help Please: How You Can Be an Anchor for Struggling Adoptive Parents?

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76 – When to Ask For Help? Support and Guidance for Struggling Adoptive Parents with Herbie Newell

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75 – The Wrong Thing to Say? Husbands Please Don’t Do What I Did!

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74 – Feeling Out of Sorts? 5 Ways to Show Yourself Grace After Trauma

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73 – The Power of Letters: 5 Stories of Adoption, Love, and Encouragement

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72 – Walking in the Rain? One of My Favorite Ways to Find Respite

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71 – How to Sit With the Text? How the Psalms Help Adoptive Parents Overcome Life’s Storms

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70 – Honoring a Hero Who Never Experienced the Joy of Being Called Daddy

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69 – How Can I Reduce Anxiety & Overwhelm In My Home? Interview With Emily McDermott

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68 – The Power of a Mother’s Love: Live Coaching with Tim Maudlin

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67 – Developing Trust Out of Trauma? A Story of Love, Compassion and Grace

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66 – Tender, Warm and Loving: A Story of Encouragement From a Feral Cat?

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65 – Pushy or Supportive? Navigating the Fine Line When Offering to Help Others

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64 – Anchored in Good Choices! How to Build a Meaningful Life

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63 – A Personal Story of Loss and How It Can Bless Those Hurting

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62 – Exhausted and Stressed Out? One Way You Can Feel Comfort and Support

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61 – 3 Simple Ways You Can Show Compassion and Care to Adoptive Parents

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60 – Life Out of Control? 3 Reasons Why You Should Surrender Control to God!

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59 – 3 Ways to Offer Safety, Security and Support With One Simple Act?

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58 – When Life Falls Apart: How to Heal from Hurt, Pain, and Trauma Part 2 with Keisha Wright

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57 – When Life Falls Apart: How to Heal from Hurt, Pain, and Trauma Part 1 with Keisha Wright

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56 – 3 Ways You Can Turn Your Brokenness Into Something Beautiful?

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55 – Anxious Adoptive Parent? Why You Need to Accept and Embrace Your Anxiety

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54 – Remember! 3 Ways It Can Help You Ease Uneasiness, Anxiousness, and Grief

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53 – Want to Resolve Conflict? Empower Your Adopted Child With This Simple Tool with Erich Nelson

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52 – 14 Easy Ways You Can Make Reflection a Profitable Use of Your Time

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51 – How a Cartoonist and a Baseball Hat Saved My Life? Really!

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50 – How to Understand Grief In Your Adopted Children and How To Love Them with Dr. Lisa Hartwell

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49 – Life Can Be Messy! 5 Ways To Consider MESSY In a Positive Way?

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48 – It’s Easy to Control Tomorrow But Only if You Do This ONE Thing Today?

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47 – How Journaling Helped My Son Like Himself Again with Jonny Maudlin

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46 – Sit in Solitude and Silence? The Benefits of Leading a Quiet Life

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45 – What is Open Adoption? Could it be the Best Choice for Your Family? With Sasha Starr Robertson

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44 – The Patience of Love? An Ideal Worth Pursuing for Adoptive Parents

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43 – Adoptive and Foster Parenting: How To Be Your Child’s Best Advocate

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42 – How to Listen In Order to Experience and Realize Peace In Your Life

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41 – How You Can Channel Your Frustrations to See Something Positive?

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40 – 7 Ways for Adoptive Parents to Find Support and Achieve Respite

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39 – Is Money and Mental Peace Really Possible for Adoptive Parents?

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38 – Is Peace After Betrayal Possible? Psalm 3 and the Story of Hope

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37 – What Would Peace of Mind Mean In Your Life? It’s Possible to Experience!

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36 – Be There... How To Comfort a Hurting Friend Without Saying a Word?

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35 – Remember The Last Kid Picked At Recess Feeling? It NEVER Goes Away!

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34 – How You Can Be The Kind of Friend Your Friend REALLY Needs?

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33 – How to Have Wings Like a Dove and Fly to Your Safe Place?

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32 – 3 Journaling Prompts to Help Adoptive Parents Become a Conduit for Kindness

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31 – Deliberate Acts of Kindness? Our Broken World Could Use More of Them

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30 – 3 Journaling Prompts To Help Adoptive Parents Surrender To God

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29 – Does God Want You To Adopt? Don’t Struggle, Surrender

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28 – Want Hope & Healing? 2 Journaling Prompts for Struggling Adoptive Parents

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27 – Why Do Good People Suffer? 3 Benefits Why Adoptive Parents Suffer

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26 – I See You! 3 Simple Words To Encourage Adoptive Parents To Never Give Up

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25 – Journaling Prompts for Adoptive Parents – 3 Ways to Count Your Blessings

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24 – Struggling To Trust If God Wants You To Adopt? This 1 Thing Will Help!

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23 – Feeling Overwhelmed? Simple Steps You Can Take Today To Feel Better

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22 – Too Much Noise In Your Life? 5 Ways To Neutralize Noise Today

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21 – 5 Bible Verses to Help Adoptive Parents Navigate Through the Fog of Life

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20 – When Adoptive Parents Feel All Alone? 7 Reasons Why To Grab An Anchor

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19 – How Adoptive Parents Can Use the Psalms for Healing, Comfort, and Encouragement

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18 – Adoption Trauma and Sugar Addiction? An Interview With Dr. Joan Kent

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17 – Struggling Adoptive Parents? 3 Ways To Restore The Sparkle In Their Eyes

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16 – The $89,000 T-Shirt: How One T-Shirt Inspired and Healed a Broken Community

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15 – Can You Be Okay Even If? A Difficult Adoption Conversation

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14 – Hope for Adoptive Parents? Try 10-10-10 a Powerful Coping Tool for Struggling Adoptees

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13 – Journaling Prompts – How to Partner With God to Persist in Life?

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12 – 3 Ways Adoptive Parents Can Find Support and Peace in the Storms of Life?

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11 – Adoption Life Chaotic? 3 Ways Adoptive Parents Can Find Calm In the Chaos

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10 – 3 Reasons Why It’s Good to Reach Out to a Nocturnal Anchor?

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9 – Adoption Trauma Defined! Part 2: How to Find Help and a Good Therapist with Jane Baker

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8 – Adoption Trauma Defined! Part 1: How to Understand Its Causes and Effects with Jane Baker

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7 – 2 Stories On Why I Created the Podcast Anchors of Encouragement?

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6 – 3 Ways to Face Adversity with Courage and Confidence? Admit, Ask & Accept

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5 – 3 Benefits of Walking to Overcome Overwhelm and Stress

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4 – Insensitive, Hurtful Comments? 3 Benefits of Taking Your Frustrations Out On Paper

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3 – 3 Ways You Can Realize Your Potential? Anchors of Encouragement

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2 – 3 Ways You Can Acknowledge a Friend and Be Their Umbrella

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1 – 5 Ways to Love a Child of Adoption Trauma | Anchors of Encouragement

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