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  • Growing Together at Every Stage Part 1- Babies: Calm Presence and Safe Environment

    Growing Together at Every Stage Part 1- Babies: Calm Presence and Safe Environment
    2025/12/16
    In this six-part series, we are joined by family therapist and author Meg Flynn, who brings us a wealth of knowledge from her work with families and kids for over three decades. In this era of high-pressure parenting and busy family life, Meg reminds us of how we can slow down, find the joy in each stage, and focus on what really matters–safety, connection, and growth.

    Part 1- Babies: Calm Presence and Safe Environment

    (34 mins)
    December 17, 2025

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    34 分
  • Practical Parenting for Adoptive Families (including holiday tips)

    Practical Parenting for Adoptive Families (including holiday tips)
    2025/12/03
    Adoption is a unique experience, both enriching and challenging. Adoptive parents Dawn and Truman share how their practical, actionable strategies and lots of compassion for themselves and their children helped them navigate unique challenges, reduce stress, and create a calmer, more connected home life. From attachment to education, this conversation will help keep your world manageable. We’ll also talk about how they created a Family Appointment Book and how this resource can save the day! https://www.amazon.com/Family-Appointment-Book-Families-Reunification/dp/B0B4K4WJ32

    (34 mins)
    December 3, 2025
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    37 分
  • Mindful Kids: Helping Foster & Adoptive Children Build Emotional Strength

    Mindful Kids: Helping Foster & Adoptive Children Build Emotional Strength
    2025/11/19

    Children in foster or adoptive care often carry invisible burdens of anxiety, trauma, or disconnection. In this episode, children’s mindfulness teacher Veronica Moya shares how soul-centered practices can help kids tap into resilience, self-love, and emotional intelligence. With practical tools and a fresh perspective, Veronica shows how mindfulness is not therapy, but mental hygiene that helps every child feel at home in themselves.

    (34 mins)
    November 19, 2025
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    34 分
  • Long-Range Parenting

    Long-Range Parenting
    2025/11/05

    In this episode, we are joined by Ron and Melissa Moore. Ron and Melissa raised three biological children and adopted three siblings from foster care. They share how they came to be interested in adoption, their parenting philosophy, and many of the joys and challenges they’ve experienced on their parenting journey. Ron and Melissa share how they support their children in being their best selves in school, work, play and in relationships.

    (47 mins)
    November 5, 2025
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    48 分
  • Lessons in Leadership

    Lessons in Leadership
    2025/10/22

    We sit down with Charley Joyce, MSW and Eric Monson, MBA to go beyond the textbooks for practical leadership strategies you can apply to your own career and life. How do they navigate uncertainty? What were their lessons learned? And what wisdom would they share with their younger selves? Tune in to transform your approach to leadership.

    (43 mins)
    October 22, 2025
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    43 分
  • Retained Primitive Reflexes & Trauma: Unlocking Movement, Regulation, and Learning

    Retained Primitive Reflexes & Trauma: Unlocking Movement, Regulation, and Learning
    2025/10/08

    In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of primitive reflexes—the automatic movements present at birth that lay the foundation for motor, sensory, and cognitive development. Sherrie Wethey, occupational therapist, joins us to explain what primitive reflexes are, how trauma can interfere with their integration, and how treatment can improve motor skills, regulation, and higher-level learning.

    (31:35)
    October 8, 2025
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    32 分
  • Burnout in Child Welfare Professionals and Foster Parents

    Burnout in Child Welfare Professionals and Foster Parents
    2025/09/24

    Burnout in Child Welfare Professionals and Foster Parents

    Burnout is a process. It is not necessarily tied to one specific instance. In most situations, it is an accumulation of numerous stressful, and at times traumatic, struggles that are ongoing and remain unresolved. Dr. Heather Siek and Charley Joyce address how to recognize, understand, and overcome or manage this burnout process.

    (44 mins)
    September 24, 2025
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    44 分
  • From Foster Care to the Auto Shop

    From Foster Care to the Auto Shop
    2025/09/03

    Chaya Milchtein joins Let’s Talk to share about her journey through foster care, identity and self-discovery and how this led her to building a successful career in the male-dominated industry of automobile ownership and maintenance.

    (47 mins)
    September 10, 2025
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    47 分