Episode 152: Acknowledging a Child's Unique Life Journey
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Foster care rarely looks the way you expect it to, even in the “best” of circumstances. My guest today has been in the foster care community both as a foster parent and as an advocate. Caring for a child with secondary trauma has caused Jillana Goble to change her definition of “normal” and recognize the deep importance of walking alongside a child on their unique life journey. Jillana is a speaker, author, advocate, and parent whose greatest passion is to encourage other families that are loving children from hard places. Jillana’s honesty and insight was so valuable; this truly is an episode you don’t want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | The frustration tolerance takes so much brain energy to just get through the day that oftentimes |
| 0:16.1 | kids with, you know, fetal alcohol exposure are kind of like a constantly boiling pot. |
| 0:23.2 | Diane Malbin talks about this in her book where all you have to do is throw in a pebble |
| 0:27.0 | and it might boil over. |
| 0:32.8 | Hello and welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm your host, Jamie Cabe, and it is so great to be with you today. |
| 0:41.3 | Whether you've been part of the foster care community for many years or are just learning and just really interested in learning more, we're here for you. |
| 0:49.4 | And we want you to know you're not alone. Here at TFI, we are all about seeing people everywhere support the foster care community |
| 0:58.1 | and experience Jesus together. |
| 1:01.2 | We do this by equipping people just like you to launch and lead a thriving foster care ministry |
| 1:07.0 | right where they live. |
| 1:09.8 | You can learn all about our work at the forgotten initiative.org. |
| 1:14.3 | Well, I really do love the work that we get to do and the conversations we get to share through |
| 1:20.0 | this podcast. I so value the openness and honesty we hear from our guests. And I just think |
| 1:27.4 | it makes connection easier, |
| 1:29.7 | doesn't it? When someone is open, when someone is real and raw with their experience. |
| 1:35.2 | And today's episode is a perfect opportunity for this. My guest is Jelana Goebel. She is a speaker, |
| 1:41.8 | author, advocate, and parent. and she is a very passionate woman |
| 1:46.7 | wanting to encourage other families that are loving children from hard places. Like many of us, |
| 1:53.0 | Jelana had her preconceived notions of foster care broken down through her family's foster care |
| 1:57.9 | journey. Today, she shares about being a parent to a child with fetal |
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