53. Adoptive Parents Role in the Adoptive Community with Ashley Mitchell (BigToughGirl)
Adoption Hacks16 Jul 2020

53. Adoptive Parents Role in the Adoptive Community with Ashley Mitchell (BigToughGirl)

Ashley Mitchell, owner of Big Tough Girl and Founder + Executive Director of Lifetime Healing Foundation, set out to seek increased care, understanding, and resources for birth mothers. For over a decade, Ashley has been one of the most consistent and sought after birth mother voices in the nation. Entering in to the adoptive community can be overwhelming to new adoptive parents so on this episode Ashley and Kandace discuss how AP's can find your footing and role in these conversations. Ashley shares how she has seen this community grow through tension and difficult conversations. We discuss Adoptive Parent Privilege and why it is so important for AP's to be listeners and life long learners. And we also discuss how AP's can use their voice and role to support adoptees and birth moms. Find Ashley on Instagram @BigToughGirl and also: bigtoughgirl.com sitkneetoknee.com Find Us: IG/FB @AdoptionHacks Email Us: adoptionhacksinfo@gmail.com

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52. Navigating Unknowns with Callie Troyer

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51. Post Adoption Depression with Breaunna Stone

Adoptive Mom Breaunna Stone is on the show this week to walk us through her experience with Post Adoption Depression. While it is becoming more common to hear about or have trainings regarding Post Ad...

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50. Debt Free Adoption + Burundi Adoption with Alison Storm

50. Debt Free Adoption + Burundi Adoption with Alison Storm

When Alison Storm and her husband decided to adopt, remaining debt free was incredible important to them. But how can a family remain debt free with the overwhelming fees of adoption?! Alison is on th...

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49. Trauma Parenting with Steve Luther

49. Trauma Parenting with Steve Luther

As adopted and Foster parents we need to be constantly educating ourselves about trauma. Not just in the training or pre-adoption stage. Once we are parenting a child who has had trauma, we are consta...

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48. Adoption In the News: Myka Stauffer

48. Adoption In the News: Myka Stauffer

Heartbreaking and upsetting. Kandace discusses the complex issue of the Stauffers adoption dissolution. There are clear devastating decisions the family made that they need to be held accountable for....

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47. Thailand Adoption with Lindsey Thompson

47. Thailand Adoption with Lindsey Thompson

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46. When You Run Out of Compassion as a Parent with Melissa Corkum

46. When You Run Out of Compassion as a Parent with Melissa Corkum

All parents run out of empathy and compassion at some points... especially parents with kids who come from trauma backgrounds... and especially during a global pandemic! Melissa Corkum breaks down wh...

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45. The Adoptive Mom with Alex Fittin

45. The Adoptive Mom with Alex Fittin

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