Episode 138: Tending to the Pain of the Past
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today I have a story of abundant resilience and defiant hope to share with you. In this episode we get to hear from Sandhya Oaks, a Transracial Adoptee adopted from India at the age of one. When she turned 18 years old, after years of experiencing trauma, Sandhya was disowned by her adoptive family. As she has intentionally worked on healing from the past of being an orphan for the first year of her life and from the pain her adoptive family brought, Sandhya has learned the importance of addressing the pain of the past and redeeming her perspective of forgiveness. This episode is powerful, and we are so grateful to Sandhya for sharing her story and being open about her journey of healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I didn't really actually understand what forgiveness meant through a biblical lens and how it's not a one-time, one-and-done thing, the 70-time-7. |
| 0:17.0 | As I've done this work, I studied every word of forgiveness in the Bible. It's in there a lot. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello and welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Cabe, and it is so good to have you here with us today. And guess what? I have a free resource to share with you. |
| 0:39.9 | Now, it is no secret that foster care is tough. It's not uncommon for the foster care journey |
| 0:45.4 | to feel overwhelming, confusing, or just plain discouraging, right? I'm preaching to the choir. |
| 0:51.6 | So, we decided to put together a resource for you called 12 days of |
| 0:56.5 | encouragement for foster parents. To download this free resource, head on over to the forgotten |
| 1:01.5 | initiative.org slash encouragement, and you can find it right there. It is a simple little |
| 1:07.6 | download for you to print out. You can place it somewhere you'll see it every day |
| 1:11.4 | or just get a daily word of encouragement. |
| 1:14.6 | Again, you can grab that at the forgotteninitiative.org slash encouragement. |
| 1:19.9 | On the podcast, I have a story to share with you, |
| 1:23.6 | a story of abundant, resilience, and defiant hope. |
| 1:28.0 | I am joined by Sundia Oaks, a transracial adopte who was adopted from India at the age of one. |
| 1:35.3 | When she turns 18 years old, after many years of experiencing trauma in that family, |
| 1:41.6 | Sundia was disowned by her adoptive family. Her story is heartbreaking, but her story is |
| 1:48.8 | not without hope. In this conversation, Sundia openly shares with us about her journey and most |
| 1:55.3 | importantly how she's learned to address the pain from her past and forgive those who have hurt her. I am very grateful |
| 2:03.9 | to be sharing this episode with you today. So let's get to it. Here's my conversation with |
| 2:09.4 | Sundia Oaks. Well, Sundia, I am so happy to have you on the show today. I cannot wait to talk to you. And you are a very |
| 2:23.1 | passionate person and a passion to see people live in freedom, to experience healing, and to really come |
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