Episode 201: Practical Support for Parenting Children from Hard Places (w/ Kayla Moffitt)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Are you looking for practical support? Today’s episode is for you.
Kayla Moffitt went from zero to five children through foster care the same week that her dad passed away from COVID-19. She describes it as a “brokenness” that she started her parenting journey from, something that has been a core part of her own healing journey.
The children they took in were siblings living separated in foster care for the majority of their time in care. Kayla and her husband, Jerad, eventually adopted all of them, many of whom have received psychiatric diagnoses like Bipolar Disorder, RAD, Childhood Schizophrenia, and more.
After struggling to navigate the hard moments of parenting and how to support challenging behaviors and actions, Kayla became a Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Practitioner, which she says truly “saved our family.” In this episode, we dive into various trauma-informed parenting tactics and hope for those who are parenting children from hard places.
You are not alone!
Get 10% off BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/tfi
Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/kayla-moffitt-201/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.6 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | One of my favorite quote is, you know, if you don't heal from what hurt you, you'll bleed out on those who didn't hurt you. |
| 0:13.5 | You know, healing your heart and healing your mind is a great step in healing any broken relationship that you may have with your kids right now. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. With every episode, our goal is to help you better |
| 0:35.5 | understand the foster care community. We want to bring |
| 0:38.6 | you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, |
| 0:44.8 | vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more |
| 0:50.6 | about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us |
| 0:56.2 | on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotten initiative.org. We are in this |
| 1:04.4 | together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:14.9 | Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:30.0 | Today on the podcast, I have Kayla Moffitt. And Kayla, my goodness, I would love to spend the whole episode talking about her story, |
| 1:31.8 | but we're going to kind of go in a different direction. But Kayla went from zero to five children at once. |
| 1:37.8 | They were siblings that were living in foster care, but they had been separated for the majority of their time and care. |
| 1:46.4 | And so her and her husband were able to adapt, bring all of them in and adapt them all. |
| 1:51.3 | Among all of your children, there are a variety of diagnoses. |
| 1:57.8 | Diagnoses. |
| 1:59.7 | And because of this, you found yourself really struggling through some hard times |
| 2:05.5 | in parenting, figuring out, you know, what behaviors are, I'm sure, questions like, is this |
| 2:11.8 | because of adoption? Is this from trauma? Is this normal? All of these things. But it really |
| 2:17.4 | helps you find something we call TBRI. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Forgotten Initiative, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Forgotten Initiative and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.