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The Tenacious Mama: Confessions of An Adoptive Mother
I’m currently on the roller-coaster ride of single parenting an adopted teenage son. Join me each week as I share my lived experience by starting with a confession, in the hopes of normalizing the complex issues that often come with parenting an adopted child.
The Tenacious Mama: Confessions of An Adoptive Mother
E11: Woefully underprepared
Confession: Despite my extensive background working with children as an educator, I was woefully underprepared to parent a child with developmental trauma. Also included are stories of Lane's dancing abilities and how they showed themselves at a very young age!
Included in this episode:
*Lane's dancing at a wedding
*the terms "wounded children" and "kids from hard places"
*developmental trauma
*Lane's layers of trauma
*the juxtaposition of working in a trauma responsive school district and parenting Lane
*the window of tolerance is much smaller for folks with a trauma background
*Lane dancing the Whip It Nae Nae at the airport!
SHOWNOTES:
Developmental Trauma Upclose from beaconhouse.org.uk
Dancing with a porcupine: parenting wounded children without losing yourself by Jennie Lynn Owens
Understanding Your Window of Tolerance from mi-psych.com
Understanding the Window of Tolerance And How It Affects You from mindmypeelings.com
Understanding the Window of Tolerance And How Trauma Throws You Off Balance from restoredhopecounsellingservices.com
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Thanks for listening, Beloveds. Please take care of yourselves; if you don’t do it, who will? Keep advocating for your child. And, most importantly, stay tenacious!
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