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  • Hope While You're Waiting: Courage, Clarity & Staying Steady

    Hope While You're Waiting: Courage, Clarity & Staying Steady
    2025/12/16
    Today we focus on waiting adoptive families during the holidays. This episode explores what hope realistically looks like during the waiting season—especially during the holidays. Heather and Kim offer grounding guidance, emotional support, and professional tools to help families stay steady, protect their emotional space, and remain connected to the adoption process. The conversation covers reframing hope, honoring personal growth during the wait, practical ways to stay engaged, professional holiday navigation tips, and real stories of hope rising at unexpected moments. The episode wraps with encouraging words for waiting families and reassurance that their journey is still unfolding beautifully.
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    50 分
  • A Christmas Story of Hope: Holidays Before, During, and After Adoption

    A Christmas Story of Hope: Holidays Before, During, and After Adoption
    2025/12/09

    In this heartfelt Christmas episode, Kim sits down with adoptive mom and popular creator MaryAnne Budden of OpenlyParenting.com to talk honestly about the holiday season at every stage of the adoption journey.

    From the ache of Christmas during infertility…

    to the emotional tension of waiting to be chosen…

    to the joy—and new complexities—of celebrating Christmas after adoption, MaryAnne shares wisdom, warmth, and real-life stories.

    She also opens up about setting healthy boundaries around gift-giving in open adoption and how her family approaches Christmas with love and intention.

    If you’re an adoptive parent, waiting family, or anyone touched by adoption, this episode will remind you that hope is alive, God is faithful, and you’re not walking this season alone.

    Tune in for encouragement, practical insights, and a fresh Christmas perspective, no matter where you are in the journey.
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    50 分
  • Hope in Adoption: The Many Faces of Hope

    Hope in Adoption: The Many Faces of Hope
    2025/12/08
    In this first episode of our December “Hope in Adoption” series, Heather and Kim explore how hope shows up in adoption from every perspective—often quietly, sometimes unexpectedly, but always powerfully. They look beyond the usual ideas of hope and talk honestly about how it appears for: Women considering adoption: the hope for stability, safety, and being understood Waiting adoptive families: the hope that grows through persistence, preparation, and small moments of encouragement Birth fathers: the often unseen hopes they carry for their child and their role Everyone after placement: the hope found in connection, openness, and relationships that grow over time Heather and Kim also share where they see hope every day in their work—from hotline calls to updates between families to the way people show up for one another during big decisions. This episode sets the tone for the whole month: Hope is real, present, and uniquely expressed throughout the adoption journey. It doesn’t look the same for everyone, and it doesn’t require everything to be perfect. Hope is steady. Hope is human. And hope is woven into every adoption story. Join us as we begin this thoughtful, encouraging series.
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    16 分
  • Wait What?! – Birth Father Realizations

    Wait What?! – Birth Father Realizations
    2025/12/02
    In this powerful episode, Kim and Heather unpack the surprising truths about birth fathers in adoption. From learning they can sometimes sign consent before birth, to discovering they can be involved in every part of the adoption plan — even have their own open adoption connection — this conversation challenges old assumptions. You’ll also hear about the “Wait what?! Adoption isn’t giving up” moment, and how birth fathers can process emotions like guilt, anger, and shame in healthy, healing ways. Whether you’re a birth father, adoptive parent, or simply curious about how adoption works, this episode will change the way you see a father’s role in the adoption story.
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    31 分
  • How to Find My Birth Mom

    How to Find My Birth Mom
    2025/11/25
    Are you thinking about searching for your birth mom but don’t know where to begin? In this episode, Kim and Heather walk you through how to start the search, who to contact depending on the type of adoption (private, state, or international), and how to approach the conversation with your adoptive parents.
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    26 分
  • Faith, Law, and Laughter — An Adoption Attorney’s Adventures with Alice H. Murray

    Faith, Law, and Laughter — An Adoption Attorney’s Adventures with Alice H. Murray
    2025/11/18
    Let’s Talk Adoption, host Kim King sits down with Alice H. Murray — award-winning writer, longtime adoption attorney, and author of God Adopted Us First: Faith Lessons From an Adoption Attorney’s Adventures. With over three decades of experience guiding adoptive families, Alice shares the joys and challenges of her work, how faith shaped her practice, and the surprising ways humor and miracles showed up in the middle of serious legal moments.
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  • Wait, What?! From the Birth Mother’s Perspective

    Wait, What?! From the Birth Mother’s Perspective
    2025/11/10
    In this episode of the “Wait, What? Unexpected Things in Adoption” series, Heather and Kim share heartfelt insights from the voices often least heard in adoption — birth mothers. Discover the surprising “wait, what?!” moments they experience: the mix of deep love and grief, the comfort that open adoption can bring, the empowerment of planning an adoption their way, and the realization that the perfect family for their child truly exists. You’ll also hear how birth fathers can have a role in the process and how courage, faith, and love guide birth mothers as they make selfless, hope-filled decisions. Whether you’re an adoptive parent, birth parent, or simply someone who cares about adoption, this episode offers compassion, understanding, and a reminder that adoption isn’t about giving up — it’s about giving love and opportunity.
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    46 分
  • “Wait, What?!” Adoptee Realizations

    “Wait, What?!” Adoptee Realizations
    2025/11/04

    In this episode of Let’s Talk Adoption with Heather & Kim, we explore those “wait—what?!” moments every adoptee experiences. From realizing many birth moms chose adoption out of love, to understanding that identity grows over time, and that reunion isn’t always the ending imagined — we unpack the layers of adoption and what adoptees wish people knew.

    

    Join us for encouragement, reflection, and a reminder: your story is complex, meaningful, and still unfolding.
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    44 分