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Question: A listener wrote in asking about encopresis and enuresis. These tips are for handling bedwetting or soiling accidents once your child is successfully potty trained.

Resources:

• Bedwetting and Related Toileting Issues (Article)
• Helping Children Heal from Trauma
• Sleep Issues

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How do you define self-care? Are you establishing a routine of self-care that supports you to meet your kid's needs? Nicole Barlow joins the podcast to discuss how we think about self-care, why it's crucial, and how to create rhythms of self-care in our homes. She is a certified wellness coach, TBRI® Practitioner, and parent trainer for foster and adoptive parents.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Re-define self-care
• Why is self-care crucial for parents and caregivers?
• Why do so many of us resist or neglect self-care?
• What are some of the benefits of a well-rounded approach to self-care that might move the needle for someone who says, “I’m too busy…” or “Self-care is selfish, etc.”
• What are some of the indicators we might identify in our lives that say we should focus on our wellbeing more intently?
• Framing a holistic approach to self-care:
  • Physical wellness
    • Emotional & Mental wellness
• Spiritual wellness
• Where does one start if we’ve never established regular self-care routines?
• How can we build from that starting place into overall rhythms of self-care?
• Where do practices like meal planning, budgeting, and home management fit into the picture?
• What about socialization, building a support network, engaging in respite, etc.?
• What do you recommend to parents and caregivers who look up one day and find themselves isolated or without a solid support network?
• Where do they start building or re-building that for themselves?
• Practical advice to start and maintain a self-care routine
  • Walk every day
    • Boost the benefit by walking with a friend
    • Boost the benefit by engaging in quiet time, self-reflection, prayer, etc.
  • Engage in strength training
    • Building muscle aids the body in processing stress
  • Eat whole foods
    • Nourishing your body aids in regulating and processing stress

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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.

Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

• Weekly podcasts
• Weekly articles/blog posts
• Resource pages on all aspects of family building

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Question: Today's question is about black parents adopting a white child. This was a question we received from a survey we sent out to issues that our audience wished that we would address.

Resources:

• Raising a Child Through a Transracial Adoption
• Transracial Adoption Twist: Black Parents Adopting White Kids
• Black Families Adopting White Children

Support the show

Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.

Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

• Weekly podcasts
• Weekly articles/blog posts
• Resource pages on all aspects of family building