Amplifying Your Child's Interests
Each of our children is made in God's image and has been given a gift. In this podcast, Andrea Anderson Moriarty shares how in leveraging her son Reid's passions, he is changing the world around him.
Each of our children is made in God's image and has been given a gift. In this interview, Andrea Moriarty shares how in leveraging her son Reid's passions, he has changed the world around him.
Andrea Moriarty is the cofounder of Banding Together, a music therapy nonprofit and author of "One-Track Mind: 15 Ways to Amplify Your Child's Special Interest" and "Radical Inclusion: What I Learned About Risk, Humility, and Kindness from My Son with Autism." She. She speaks nationally and leads workshops where she shares unending hope, affectionate humor, and innovative resources with parents and educators.
Moriarty and her husband, Jim, are adoptive parents of grown twins. Allie is a board-certified music therapist and Reid is a singer songwriter, speaker, and host of "Talk Time with Reid Moriarty." Moriarty lives in Solana Beach, California, where she accumulates books, cooks from scratch, and whistles while she works.
Resources:
http://andreamoriarty.com/
http://reidmoriarty.com/
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Closing song is Life of Riley by Kevin MacLeod and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Living Fully With Depression
“I realized that maybe my depression the defined absence of hope, is being used by God to actually give me hope because it is what's drawing me to Him.”
~Gillian Marchenko
“I realized that maybe my depression the defined absence of hope, is being used by God to actually give me hope because it is what’s drawing me to Him.”
Gillian Marchenko is an author and a speaker. She lives near St. Louis with her husband Sergei and their four daughters. In this interview, Gillian shares openly and honestly about living with depression and her latest book, “Still Life: A Memoir of Living Fully with Depression.”
Resources
https://www.gillianmarchenko.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GillianMarchenkoPage/
https://www.instagram.com/gillianmarchenko/
https://twitter.com/GillianMarchenk
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Closing song is Life of Riley by Kevin MacLeod and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Episode 6 – "Born Broken: An Adoptive Journey" An Interview With Kristin Berry
When we are raising a child who we know will have a disability the rest of their life, we have to look for the hopeful moments within that. ~ Kristin Berry
“When we are raising a child who we know will have a disability the rest of their life, we have to look for the hopeful moments within that.”
Kristin is a foster to adopt Mom, national speaker, co-founder of Confessions of an Adoptive Parent, author of Born Broken: An Adoptive Journey. In this interview, she shares her family’s adoption story and the lessons she has learned along the way. Even if you are not an adoptive parent, what she has to say in this interview will resonate with you.
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Closing song is Life of Riley by Kevin MacLeod and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Episode 5 – "Embracing The Messy" An Interview With Mike Berry
Life as a family impacted by special needs can be “messy.” There are many aspects that are hard and create extra stressors. In this episode, Mike Berry, the founder of Confessions of an Adoptive Parent offers hope in the midst of the hard and the “messy.”
“When I use the word joy, I’m not talking about happy go lucky. I’m talking about the sustaining belief that even through the storm you are held and you are with hope. That’s what joy is.”
Life as a family impacted by special needs can be “messy.” There are many aspects that are hard and create extra stressors. In this interview, Mike Berry, Founder of Confessions of an Adoptive Parent, shares about finding hope in the storm and lessons we can apply from his most recent book Winning The Heart Of Your Child that will help us navigate this journey.
Resources
https://confessionsofanadoptiveparent.com/
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Closing song is Life of Riley by Kevin MacLeod and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400054
Artist: http://incompetech.com/