Episode 189 -"Fostered: One Woman's Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family Through Foster Care" Guest: Tori Hope Peterson

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Being in foster system changed Tori’s life completely. There were trauma’s and bad experiences but out of all of this, she became strong in Christ through the love of a few important people in her life like her track coach, her youth leader and her church community. Some topics covered: Foster care system reform: Recognizing the impossibly overwhelming caseloads carried by many social workers, addressing issues that often arise in institutionalized group homes, and more. Embracing God the Father even though she had been wounded by so many. Seeing how love can change people’s lives and give them hope. What it means to be radically hospitable and why the Church should embrace it. Struggling with labels and identity as a biracial woman. Guest Info: www.torihopepetersen.com www.instagram.com/torihopepetersen FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #189, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family Through Foster Care and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what the effects of living in a foster home have on kids?
0:10.9	Well, today, you're going to find out.
0:13.1	My guest is Tori Hope Pedersen, who lived in a total of 12 foster homes.
0:19.3	She's here to tell us what those experiences were like.
0:22.2	Not only did Tori overcome much of the pain of moving from one home to another, she went
0:28.6	on to be all American in track and field, and recently, she wrote fostered one woman's
0:35.8	powerful story of finding faith and family through foster care.
0:43.5	Thanks so much for coming.
0:44.5	Yeah, thank you so much for having me on.
0:47.3	You bet.
0:48.3	Now you wrote a book fostered, and what prompted you to write it?
0:52.9	Give us a little background about the book.
0:56.0	When I started writing it, so the book I started writing probably about four years ago,
1:00.4	and I thought I wanted to write a book for kids and foster care, or I guess adults who had
1:07.3	experienced the foster care system, I wanted to give them hope and let them know that they
1:11.6	weren't alone, that there was a purpose and plan for their life, and then as I continued
1:16.5	to write and share bits of pieces of it before it published, I realized that I was educating
1:24.3	people who wanted to be involved in the foster care system, people in the foster care system
1:29.0	who wanted to know more from a former foster youth's perspective, why I started writing
1:34.5	it.
1:35.5	It's definitely expanded to the intentions, the original intentions of the book, and I
1:41.2	think only God can do that, so I'm very grateful for what it's done with even without
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