PSP 155: An Adoptive Mom Talks About her Journey Raising a Child with Invisible Needs

AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety

Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent

Anxiety, Ocd Therapy, Child Anxiety, Child Ocd, Kids & Family, Ocd, Health & Fitness, Ocd In Children, Parenting, Mental Health

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🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Many of us fantasized what parenthood would look like way before we had children. Our ideas of parenthood might have been solidified in early childhood, as we tucked our baby doll into her toy crib. Or it may have been dreamt about the moment we knew we were about to become a parent.But for some of us, the dream and reality didn’t match. Our children had issues. Our children had fears. Our children had struggles.Janelle Molony’s idea of motherhood wasn’t what she had imagined. After entering the world of foster care to adopt her child, she was thrown into a whirlwind of issues and struggles she wasn’t anticipating. In her memoir, Un-Adoptable? Faith Beyond Foster Care, she recounts her struggles and triumphs and how ultimately, she was able to move out of the darkness and into the light.I had the pleasure of talking with Janelle on this week’s AT Parenting Survival Podcast. To learn more about Janelle’s work go to her website, www.adoptiontolife.com or check out her book Un-Adoptable? Faith Beyond Foster Care here: https://amzn.to/2PBSZX1***This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a qualified professional.Visit my website at www.ATparentingSurvival.comInterested in my AT Parenting Community Membership? Get on the waitlist:http://www.atparentingcommunity.com Sign up for my weekly email newsletter:https://pages.convertkit.com/740ba8cd83/92109b7172Take one of my online classes:To view the entire online school library, go to:http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.comClasses include:How to Crush Social Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-social-anxietyParenting Kids with OCD http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/child-ocdCrush Moral OCD in Kidshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/moral-ocdTeaching Kids to Crush Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/crush-anxiety Helping Kids with Anxiety or OCD Through Difficult Behaviorshttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/difficult-behaviorsHelping Kids Who are Scared to Sleephttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/scared-to-sleepHandling Sensory-Based Anxietyhttp://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/sensory-anxietyLibrary of Live Anxiety and OCD Classes (20 hours of class replays)http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/libraryUltimate list of helpful anxiety products:https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/reduce-child-anxiety/ To join my private Facebook group visit:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATparentinganxiouskids/For a list of my books visit:https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniels/e/B011K5IIWAJoin the fun on my YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/anxioustoddlers78 Other social places I hang out:http://www.facebook.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.pinterest.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.twitter.com/anxioustoddlershttp://www.instagram.com/anxioustoddlers***

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0:00.0	Welcome to AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get supporting guidance through the chaos of parenting.
0:07.0	Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels.
0:11.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival
0:16.5	Podcast. I hope you're doing well today. Today we're going to be talking
0:20.5	about adoption, foster care, and just motherhood and the struggles of raising
0:27.9	a child maybe in the way that we hadn't envisioned or having expectations that didn't align and coming out
0:35.6	through the other side. I have invited Janelle Maloney onto the show and she is the
0:41.3	author of this newly released memoir called Unadoptable,
0:45.0	Question Mark, Faith Beyond Foster Care.
0:48.0	She is just an amazing person to listen to.
0:51.0	She is inspiring. I follow her on Instagram and have really enjoyed
0:58.3	everything that she's put out there and she did not disappoint when I
1:02.0	actually talked to her for this interview.
1:05.0	She was inspiring and she has such good words and good messages to share with the rest of us.
1:11.0	So regardless of whether you've ever encountered the world of
1:15.1	foster or adoption, this is still going to be so relevant to you because her words
1:19.8	can really be generalized to all of us and all of our struggles through parenthood.
1:26.2	So I hope that you enjoy my conversation as much as I did.
1:29.6	And without further ado, here's my conversation with Janelle. Well I want to welcome Janelle Maloney to
1:35.5	the show thank you so much for coming I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for
1:39.4	having me I'm really excited to finally meet you and be able to share my story with all the other
1:46.4	mothers and families.
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