HOW-TO MINISODE WITH HEATHER AVIS: How to foster belonging with your children in your home and community.
Get Real with Caroline Hobby
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, I sat down with Heather Avis. Heather is a New York Times bestselling author with her book, "Different - A Great Thing To Be," and an active Down Syndrome advocate, after adopting two children with Down Syndrome into her own family. Today we are giving you a quick breakdown on how to begin fully taking the steps to nurture belonging and inclusion in all aspects of your life. Throughout our conversation, Heather touches on three ways you can start fostering belonging with your children in your home and overall community...
1. Assume competence
2. Extend an invitation
3. Be willing to adjust
Heather is the brightest beacon of light and I feel truly so inspired after talking with her. Be sure to go back and listen to Monday's episode with Heather to get a deeper dive into her incredible life story!
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| 0:31.1 | I am back with Heather Avis. You guys listened to her episode on Monday and I know you were moved. |
| 0:35.7 | She is an incredible mom of three adopted children. Two of her children have Down syndrome. |
| 0:40.5 | One of them is also biracial. She has walked through so many things with motherhood. |
| 0:44.4 | You are so strong. Your faith is enormous. You truly are like a beacon of light to this world. |
| 0:49.4 | You have written a bestseller with New York Times. You have four books. Your new one everyone |
| 0:53.6 | belongs is out. It's a children's book and I am screaming this on the rooftops. Everyone needs |
| 0:57.3 | to give this as a gift that you give to new moms, new parents. This is the book that is just so |
| 1:03.0 | incredible. It is so inclusive. It offers such a great imaging and insight into how we all are |
| 1:09.1 | so important with our differences and that's what makes the world beautiful. We're going to do a |
| 1:12.4 | how-to episode. I'm so glad to have you back. We're going to do how-to foster belonging |
| 1:16.5 | with your children and your home and community. Yes. Thank you. Again, you are just very kind |
| 1:21.7 | of generous. Thank you for saying all the same thing. You are. I mean, talking to you is like |
| 1:25.1 | literally talking to an angel. You are one of the people that getting to like see how you |
| 1:31.1 | walked through all this fear of you knew when you adopted two children that they both had Down |
| 1:35.4 | Syndrome and you decided that the faith was more important than the fear and you've been able |
| 1:40.6 | to experience miracles because of it that you so many of us are too scared to go into because we're |
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