Episode 260: Transforming Despair Into Hope (w/ Keristein Fox)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
For our very first episode of 2025, we’re bringing you another great conversation that sheds light on the real people of the foster care community.
In this episode, we are talking to Keristein Fox. Today, she’s a happily married stay-at-home mom who loves watching her three children grow and thrive. But Keristein’s story wasn’t always this joyful. She endured many dark seasons to reach where she is now.
In this episode, you’ll hear about how addiction can push people toward actions they regret, the crucial role kinship care can play in the foster care system, how Jesus offers hope and healing in even the most dire of circumstances, and much more.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/keristein-fox-260/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:04.1 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | I was trying to find a solution, a worldly solution, to a spiritual problem. |
| 0:14.5 | And so that was my biggest thing, was like, you're not missing somebody, you know, you don't |
| 0:18.6 | need somebody else to love you. |
| 0:20.2 | That's not what the hole in your heart is missing. It's Jesus. And even in my using, I felt God's hand |
| 0:26.7 | in my life. And I just know that that's what it was because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't. |
| 0:32.9 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people |
| 0:39.6 | of foster care. |
| 0:40.8 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 0:45.7 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency |
| 0:50.4 | workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. |
| 0:56.1 | If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles or |
| 1:01.6 | partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotten initiative.org. |
| 1:08.6 | We are in this together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of our family. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:36.0 | Kirsten Fox is married and gets to be stay-at-home mom where she's enjoying watching her baby grow and learn. |
| 1:40.3 | She has three amazing children, two of her own and one bonus baby. |
| 1:45.8 | Kirsten struggled for many years with addiction and saw the foster care system up close when her oldest daughter was placed into kinship care with family. For years, she despised the system, |
| 1:52.6 | but healing has come and she has seen it in a different light. She recently graduated with a bachelor's |
| 1:59.2 | degree in criminal justice with a concentration in human |
| 2:02.7 | services and wants to bring hope to those who are in navigating foster care right now. Wow, |
| 2:07.7 | Kirsten, I am so happy to have you on. Thanks for being with me today. Thank you for having me. |
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