#184: Finding Family with Hallie Graves
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
There is so much to know about foster care. Hallie has a ton of knowledge and such a beautiful perspective on parenting. You guys are going to LOVE her.
Hallie Graves is a 30-something from the great Austin, Texas. Not a fan of the linear life, Hallie’s a speaker and writer, a lawyer with a boutique law firm, a foster care activist, and a #singlefostermom with infant and toddlers, and is overly interested in just about everything. Hallie is passionate about encouraging people to live fully in light of the grace and freedom of Jesus and to use every ounce of all they’ve been given in this life. She loves the Austin library, Broadway shows, queso, yoga, words, traveling, and her people. Hallie’s involved in the Austin Stone Community Church, Foster Village, and The Archibald Project, and has degrees in voice, physics, and law.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
how Hallie became involved in the foster care system
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a real look at what it’s like for a child to be removed from their family and placed into the foster care system
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things everyone should know about foster care
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how Hallie remains positive in the midst of heartbreaking work
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choosing our words carefully when we speak about our children when we’re stressed
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handling the trauma of attaching to foster children that are later removed
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the importance of mental health for foster parents
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how we can better support foster parents
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for keys, looking for keys, looking for keys. |
| 0:10.0 | Everyone's tired of looking for keys. |
| 0:14.0 | So the Honda HRV hybrid can be unlocked |
| 0:18.0 | and turned on |
| 0:21.0 | with your phone. While we're listening take us next, |
| 0:27.8 | Honda, the power of dreams. |
| 0:30.6 | So May also used to be considered bad luck to get married. There was a rhyme that said |
| 0:35.5 | Mary in May and you'll rue the day. Roo, I'm assuming means hate or feel sad about. |
| 0:41.1 | Oh yeah. Ironically, that's when I got married my first time. I got married |
| 0:46.2 | and made too. Oh my gosh do you rue the day? I rue the day. I rue the day that I got married to my first husband. Oh, what day was it? May 31. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh man, just under the gun. I know. Gosh, I almost didn't rude the day. |
| 1:02.0 | If you had waited one more day, you would have. Gosh I almost didn't rude the day. |
| 1:07.0 | If you had waited one more day you may not have actually gotten married. Oh my gosh I know it was literally minutes after the marriage when I'm like, um |
| 1:12.0 | Can we rewind? |
| 1:14.1 | If I could turn my time. |
| 1:17.9 | I really rule this day. You. Welcome back friends. You are listening to the Struggle Well Project, the podcast that helps you love your actual life so you don't have to |
| 1:44.4 | run away from home. We believe here the perfection is nonsense and peace is a |
| 1:48.8 | perspective shift away. So at the top of the show you heard my sister and I talking about |
| 1:55.2 | Ruing the day. Every time I listen to that clip it makes me laugh. |
| 1:59.2 | So in case Katie and I are not the only ones that think we're funny and you would also like to get two additional shows each month |
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