Episode 160: Why Adoption Doesn’t End the Healing Journey (w/ Mia Arrington)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It’s National Adoption Month! In honor of that, the podcast will be weekly this month to provide more opportunities for you to share episodes with friends who might not know as much about foster care or adoption in order to increase awareness. Let’s spread the word!
In the adoption and foster care community, we often encounter stories of brokenness and heartache. At the same time, we find stories of hope, healing, and God’s faithful purpose. For Maria “Mia” Arrington, God’s purpose and faithfulness were weaved throughout every part of her story, from being a child in foster care to an adoptee to today being a licensed social worker, therapist, wife, and mom to a beautiful daughter and stepson. In today’s episode, Mia openly shares her journey of entering foster care as a toddler, experiencing a disrupted adoption, living in a group home, eventually being adopted, and how she is using her story to spread hope and healing to others.
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.5 | This is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | My dad actually sat me down at one point. |
| 0:09.1 | He was like, you can kick, you can scream, you can do whatever you want. |
| 0:13.5 | But you're here, you're ours, and this is your home. |
| 0:17.7 | We're a family. |
| 0:24.8 | Thank you. This is your home for your family. Hey there. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm your host, Jamie Cave, and I am so very excited to have you with me here today. |
| 0:33.7 | November is National Adoption Month, so we're going to do things a little bit differently |
| 0:38.4 | here on the podcast. We'll be bringing you an episode each and every week this month to help |
| 0:44.5 | raise awareness surrounding adoption and bring attention to the need for loving adoptive families |
| 0:50.9 | for children waiting in the foster care system. Did you know that of the 400,000 |
| 0:57.1 | children in foster care, about 25% of them are waiting to be adopted? Each and every one of these |
| 1:04.2 | children and all the different individuals in their lives matter, and they have stories to tell. I would |
| 1:10.5 | love for you to join me this month |
| 1:12.1 | and consider partnering with TFI to impact the lives of these children and families. |
| 1:17.5 | Team 310 is a group of partners that give to TFI to help us continue on mission together. |
| 1:24.1 | We can make a big difference in the foster care community and your gift of $10, $25, or $50 makes a huge impact. |
| 1:32.5 | You can learn more and join today at the forgotteninitiative.org slash team 310. That's the |
| 1:39.0 | forgotten initiative.org slash team 310. Thank you again for joining me and let's go now to today's episode for National Adoption |
| 1:49.3 | Month. |
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