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The Girl Defined Show

Marriage and Family Life After Adoption with Zack and Kristen Clark

The Girl Defined Show

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark

Religion & Spirituality, Christian Woman, Christian Girl, Girldefined, Womanhood, Christian Advice, Christian Teen, Society & Culture, Christian Dating, Christianity, Girl Defined

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send a text Ep. 107 - It’s been over a year since Zack and Kristen brought their boys home from Ukraine and finalized the adoption. Life has been full, fun, and wild with lots of joys and some challenges. In this down-to-earth conversation, they share openly about how becoming an “instant family” has impacted their marriage, and what life looks like today as a family of four. NEW Personal Retreat Journal Sex, Purity and the Longings of a Girl's Heart: Discover the Beauty and Freedom of God...

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Today, on The Girl to Find Show, I have something extra special planned for you guys.

0:04.0

We're going to kind of take a turn and do something a little bit out of the ordinary.

0:07.0

I'm bringing my husband, Zach, on to have a super-down to earth, just kind of life-update conversation.

0:12.0

It's going to be fun. We're going to dig into questions about where we are today,

0:16.0

what our family life looks like, and how our marriage has changed, dynamics,

0:20.0

what life is like for us as kind of instant parents. We're now a year and a half into our adoption,

0:24.0

so obviously a lot has changed, and we're going to share some of the unexpected joys

0:28.0

that we've experienced over the year, past year and a half, and then some of the unexpected challenges.

0:32.0

Some of the cutest moments that we've had with our boys, we're going to talk about just all of that fun stuff.

0:37.0

It's going to be super chill, and Zach is really sweet to come on, and have this conversation with us.

0:42.0

But I do want to let you guys know that if you want to hear more specifically about our adoption journey,

0:47.0

that whole process, we're not really going to dig into that today.

0:51.0

But you can definitely just search in our podcast for past episodes.

0:55.0

Zach and I have done a few different updates on kind of our infertility,

0:59.0

recurrent miscarriage journey, and then another episode all about our adoption,

1:03.0

that whole process from Ukraine, what that looked like.

1:05.0

So definitely just do a search, and you can find those episodes in the archives.

1:08.0

Also, if you want to take a deep dive into our story, and just in general,

1:13.0

what it means for you to trust God with the longings of your heart,

1:16.0

with the unknowns in your life, with desires that you have that are still unmet,

1:20.0

or prayers that you have that you feel like are still unanswered,

1:23.0

then I would really encourage you to grab a copy of the book that Bethany and I recently released together

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