Episode 158: Prioritizing Learning & Growth in Fostering (w/ Joey & Sadie Dodson)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Joey & Sadie Dodson are about as involved in the foster care community as you can get! They are foster and adoptive parents themselves, Joey was adopted when he was a child, and Sadie is currently working as a Family Care Manager at a non-profit working with churches and families to foster and adopt. Sadie also leads various TBRI and trauma-informed trainings.
Join us as we have a conversation about how the desire to learn can help us be better equipped (not just as foster or adoptive parents, but as people), why it’s okay to feel like you are not fully equipped, how to look at the foster care journey through an attachment lens, and what it looks like to carry moment-by-moment dependence on God.
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community, this is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Like it's not ever a, this is how you were raised. |
| 0:12.0 | That's the end of the story. This is how you're going to be. |
| 0:14.0 | God uses that to bring hope because we can fill those holes once we know kind of what we were missing and what kind of relationship |
| 0:23.1 | we had with our caregiver. We can get that earned security in relationships and we can pass that on. |
| 0:34.7 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. |
| 0:42.8 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 0:48.3 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, |
| 0:55.3 | vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn |
| 1:00.9 | more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us on |
| 1:07.1 | mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotten initiative.org. We are in this |
| 1:14.9 | together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:22.0 | Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, Joey and Sadie, I am so happy to have you here with us. So welcome to the show. |
| 1:37.8 | Thank you. It's great to be here. |
| 1:48.8 | Yeah. Well, you both have a ton of education. You can tell that learning is a real big value for you. Lots of training, |
| 1:56.7 | experience, and counseling and mentoring and educating others in really a variety of areas. For you, Sadie, just some of those things include trauma-informed therapy, family and marriage |
| 2:02.5 | counseling. Joey, you're a seminary professor. You're an author and a speaker. And you guys have |
| 2:10.2 | five children, including one who was adopted through foster care. And also you fostered teens |
| 2:16.5 | and children of really all ages. So one aspect of your |
| 2:21.8 | story that I find very unique is that you were elementary school, sweetheart. So you have literally |
| 2:30.6 | been together since you were children. That's right. |
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