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Healthy By Heather Brown

The Hidden Crisis: Foster Care, Adoption, and Spiritual Resilience with Rebekah Weigel EP 85

Healthy By Heather Brown

Heather Brown

Education, How To, Mental Health, Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Healthy by Heather Brown podcast, Heather dives into the importance of mental, physical, and spiritual health in children with her guest, Rebekah Weigel, a producer, writer, and foster/adoptive parent. They discuss the movie 'Sound of Hope,' which focuses on a community-based adoption and foster care model inspired by real-life events from a small church in East Texas.

Heather and Rebekah explore the church's role in supporting children both locally and globally, addressing the various traumas that children encounter today. Rebekah shares her journey from psychology to filmmaking, the challenges and blessings of foster care, and the critical role of community support in encouraging adoptive families. Families who serve children through foster care and adoption are embodying the role of local missionaries and are meeting a great need. While more foster and adoptive families are needed, the church can also support these parents by offering prayer and care in the same way it would for international missionaries. We are called to be set apart, salt and light, in a dark world. In the marriage corner, this episode focuses on the balance of phone usage to foster better family relationships and concludes with actionable insights for parents on how to stay present in their children's lives.

Scripture verses highlighted in this episode include:James 1:27 “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained.”

2 Corinthians 12:9 “But he said to me,  ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

Links from this episode:
https://www.peacetreeproductions.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rebekahweigel/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/soundofhopefilm/?hl=en
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3013928/

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00:00 Welcome to Healthy by Heather Brown
00:45 Introducing Rebekah Weigel
02:14 Rebecca's Journey into Filmmaking
04:10 The Story Behind 'Sound of Hope'
05:08 Challenges and Community in Adoption
10:58 Supporting Adoptive Families
11:57 Bio Kult Everyday: A Probiotic Solution
14:57 Rebekah's Reflections on Adoption
21:13 How to Watch 'Sound of Hope'
22:02 Rebekah's Personal Reset Practices
28:37 Marriage Corner: Balancing Cell Phone Usage
40:40 Closing Remarks and Encouragement

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everything secure. Hey, y'all, and welcome to the Healthy by Heather Brown podcast, where I encourage

1:00.5

you in healthy, mind, body, and spirit through my Sunday reset. Let's get into it.

1:09.7

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Healthy by Heather Brown. I'm so excited today that we are going to focus predominantly on the spiritual health aspect of what we talk about often here, which is mind, body, and spirit health. I love on each episode getting to bring in unique guests that get to talk a lot about one of those

1:28.5

three sectors of health, whether it be your mind, your body, your spirit, and how important

1:33.1

that is just to our overall health and how we can use that every week as fuel to help us

1:38.4

do our Sunday reset and really name what's important to us. Today's guest is Rebecca Weigel.

1:44.1

She is a producer, a writer, a foster,

1:46.6

an adoptive parent. And I got so excited when I got the email asking if she could come on

1:52.7

because so many of you I know are very passionate about human trafficking and you guys watch

1:58.4

the movie that came out last summer, Sound of Freedom, all about

2:02.6

just bringing awareness to human trafficking, shining a light on that, how the church can help

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