Episode 239: Trauma-Informed Sleep Principles (w/ Allison Ezell)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Whether a child has experienced foster care or adoption, there is history and trauma to navigate. As you can imagine, this can spill over into eating habits, behavior issues, and affect children’s sleep. Many foster parents and caregivers experience the difficulty of seeking help from someone trained in both foster/adoptive backgrounds and sleep practices.
That was the case for my guest, Allison Ezell. When her first adopted son came home from China in 2016, she spent years unsuccessfully searching for sleep help that took into account his history. Today, she now gets to do for others what no one could do for her all those years ago: build a bridge between sleep science principles and trauma-informed care.
Allison is a Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant and a mom of four through birth, foster care, and international adoption. She has a special passion for working with foster and adoptive families who are navigating sleep issues with their children.
In this episode, you’ll learn how isolating dealing with sleep issues in children who have experienced trauma can be, the importance of setting realistic expectations based on a child’s history and biology, navigating bedtime with multiple children, and so much more.
Find resources and more in the show notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/allison-ezell-239/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:04.0 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | And I can look back on our own multi-year struggle with this and just see how God carried us. |
| 0:17.0 | And if you're in the trenches, that's not something you're going to see today, but there will come a day when you can look back and see how he sustained you and how he carried you. |
| 0:24.6 | And you are not without hope and that it won't be like this forever. |
| 0:29.1 | You're doing the best you can with a really hard thing. |
| 0:32.1 | And you're a good mom doing really hard, hard things. |
| 0:37.1 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people |
| 0:43.4 | of foster care. |
| 0:45.0 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 0:50.4 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. |
| 1:02.1 | If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to |
| 1:13.0 | the forgotten initiative.org. We are in this together. Thank you for listening and engaging |
| 1:19.8 | with us. We love having you as part of our family. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:32.6 | Allison Isell is a certified pediatric sleep consultant and mom of four through birth, foster care, and international adoption. |
| 1:42.6 | She and her husband Blake live just north of Dallas, Texas. |
| 1:46.8 | Allison has a special passion for working with foster and adoptive families who are navigating |
| 1:51.7 | sleep issues with their children. I'm thinking as you listen right now, you were probably |
| 1:56.1 | leaning in because we're going to talk about sleep issues. But as she spent many years unsuccessfully |
| 2:02.1 | searching for sleep help when her first adopted son came home from China back in 2016. |
| 2:08.4 | Now she gets to do for others what no one could do for her all those years ago, which is build a |
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