Adoption (Part 3)

Restore The Glory Podcast

Jake Khym

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Chris & Michelle Benzinger share their story of adopting two children from Haiti after a hurricane devastated the country. They share with Jake & Bob how they weren’t planning to adopt until the Lord put it on their heart. They discuss how they navigated integrating these children into their family & how there was joint restoration for everyone involved. Michelle also talks about her experience with Safe & Sound protocol & it’s role in her healing journey.

Key Points

Before adoption, the call from the Lord was “Will you welcome them into your heart?”
How Chris & Michelle’s community helped to welcome their new children.
The disorientation of the kids coming to a new place, with new people and they don’t understand the language.
Joint restoration for everyone involved. Healing of attachment wounds for Chris & Michelle as well as their kids.
The importance of listening to your body in healing & a discussion of somatic methods.
Our minds and body are so connected that healing in one helps the other.
Safe & Sound Protocol explanation & it’s usefulness in our own healing and especially in our parenting.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Restore the Glory Podcast.
0:07.0	My name is Jake Kim.
0:11.0	And I'm Bob Schutz. We're two Catholic therapists sharing what we've learned personally and professionally to help you on the journey of restoration.
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0:29.3	you access to exclusive content like monthly reflections and special live stream teachings.
0:35.0	Go to Patreon.com slash restore the glory and join the mission of experiencing the restoration of our God-given glory.
0:44.3	Hey Bob, good to see you again. We are in our series here on Adoption and we have
0:51.5	some amazing guests with us.
0:54.0	If it's okay with you Bob, I'd love to take a stab at introducing them.
0:58.0	So this is a couple that I have known for a very long time and I would like to say that I have some part in their
1:09.2	marriage and that's my claim to fame that I have a subtle part and really my wife has a part in their marriage.
1:16.4	So I'm super happy to have Chris and Michelle Ben Singer with us.
1:21.4	Chris Michelle, thank you so much for joining us. We are delighted to get into and hear about your guys' story around adoption, but just a little bit about the two of you, Chris, you have worked in church ministry for what feels like forever and now are doing both it feels like church ministry as well as leadership consulting in the world is that a fair way to put it yeah that's right the mission field is just expanded
1:47.8	beyond specifically working for churches yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
1:53.0	And Chris, I would say like anybody out there listeners who are looking for a top-notch leadership
1:57.0	consultant disciple, they don't get better than Chris.
2:00.5	So we'll put his website and stuff there, but that's's just a plug that's not really where we're going.
2:05.2	Yeah and Chris has been helping us as a ministry JP2 healing center so I support that
2:12.3	with my life.
2:13.0	And then Michelle you do this I think you're on a yeah a podcast or something's called
2:18.8	Abiding with the weather or biting I think it's kind of abiding together just a little women's
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