The Blesssing
Children of every age long for the gift of The Blessing - the unconditional love and approval that comes from a healthy relationship with their parents. In this episode, Jonathan & Sarah interview Dr. John Trent & Kari Trent-Stageberg, co-authors of The Blessing.
In this episode, Jonathan and Sarah interview Dr. John Trent and his daughter Kari Trent-Stageberg, co-authors of The Blessing.
Children of every age long for the gift of The Blessing - the unconditional love and approval that comes from a healthy relationship with their parents.
This life-changing gift for Christian parents and their children, essential for instilling a deep sense of self-worth and unshakable emotional well-being, contains five essential elements:
Meaningful touch.
A spoken message.
Attaching high value.
Picturing a special future.
An active commitment.
Offering solid, practical advice and a fresh perspective on making this gift a bigger part of our families, The Blessing powerfully communicates these biblically based elements as necessary to prepare children for positive future relationships, including their relationship with a loving God.
Dr. John Trent is an award-winning, best-selling author and speaker.
He has published more than 20 books, including The Blessing, which has over 2 million copies in print.
Dr. Trent currently runs his ministry StrongFamilies, a ministry where imperfect people and less than perfect families (just like the Trent’s) can find resources and encouragement to help you love the Lord, yourself and others fully.
However, Dr. Trent's biggest accomplishment is being married to his incredible wife of 40 years, Cindy. And being a father of two amazing daughters.
Kari Trent Stageberg is a speaker and author best known for her work on the book, The Blessing.
Kari also serves as the CEO of StrongFamilies, a ministry where imperfect people and less than perfect families (just like the Trent’s) can find resources and encouragement to help you love the Lord, yourself and others fully. As a survivor of abuse, Kari's passion is to help everyone find freedom and healing in Jesus.
When she isn't writing or speaking, she spends her time enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her amazing husband, Joey.
RESOURCES:
IG: karitrentstageberg and strong.families
https://www.facebook.com/DrJohnTrent/
https://www.strongfamilies.com/
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Healing Your Child's Brain
When we understand how our children’s brains work, it will help us to better understand why they do certain things. It will help us to better love our child and to develop an action plan for what they need. This episode will help you have a better understanding of brain development and equip you as you come alongside your child.
When we understand how our children’s brains work, it will help us to better understand why they do certain things. It will help us to better love our child and to develop an action plan for what they need. This episode will help you have a better understanding of brain development and equip you as you come alongside your child.
In this episode, Matthew & Carol Newell share about their latest book Healing Your Child’s Brain.
In Healing Your Child ’s Brain, child development experts Matthew and Carol Newell equip parents with the knowledge, confidence, and tools they need to help their special- needs child flourish. The Newells taught more than 20,000 parents and were the parents of two children with special needs. They know firsthand, as both parents and practitioners, what works—and what doesn’t.
Most treatments focus on managing symptoms but don’t address underlying neurological issues. This book guides readers through the stages of brain development and how they affect functioning, showing what wellness looks like at each level and how to identify—and address at the root—these challenges.
Resources:
Website: www.familyhopecenter.com Facebook: @thefamilyhopecenter
Linked In: @TheFamilyHopeCenter Instagram: @thefamilyhopecenter
Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/familyhopecenter
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Discipline That Connects With Your Child's Heart
It can be difficult to find parenting tips that really work in our diverse family situations. In this interview Jim & Lynn, founders of Connected Families, walk us through how to apply grace based parenting in our family.
It can be difficult to find parenting tips that really work in our diverse family situations. In this interview Jim & Lynn, founders of Connected Families, walk us through how to apply grace based parenting in our family.
In their 30 years together Jim and Lynne have learned to bring God's grace and truth to the messes of real life. Their three closely-aged kids all had straight A's before they started school: ADHD, Asthma, Allergies, and Acid reflux. Translation: A WIRED FAMILY! And both of them chose careers working with other people's kids. This unique combination of experience at home and at work led them to start Connected Families in 2002. Since then their resources have equipped thousands of parents across the globe be more peaceful, purposeful, and confident! Jim and Lynne have been featured on Focus on the Family, Desiring God, KTIS radio, Don’t Mom Alone, and numerous other radio programs and podcasts, including their own Connected Families podcast which was downloaded more than 45K times in the first 3 months. Through their travels, podcasting, books, online courses, and leadership trainings, the Connected Families team has had a profound global impact on parents across the world.
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Tips For Navigating The Medical System
Do you ever feel completely overwhelmed by the healthcare system? It can be very intimidating and scary as you learn to navigate the system. It doesn’t take long before you get an intense dread of opening the mailbox out of fear of what bill is going to arrive the next time you reach in there.
You won’t want to miss this interview with TyiaLynn Scott if any of the above sounds familiar!
Do you ever feel completely overwhelmed by the healthcare system? It can be very intimidating and scary as you learn to navigate the system. It doesn’t take long before you get an intense dread of opening the mailbox out of fear of what bill is going to arrive the next time you reach in there.
If any of the above resonates with you, then you won’t want to miss this interview with TyiaLnn Scott, Founder of Critically Loved. In this interview you will learn practical tactics for managing your child’s healthcare and potentially greatly reduce those bills that are coming in. You will also learn realistic ways to rejuvenate yourself so you will be a better caregiver for your child.
The vision of Critically Loved is “to positively impact the lives of families with chronically or critically ill children by assisting them in navigating hospital stays, bill payment, and schooling issues as well as providing educational, recreational, and spiritual support to foster community.”
RESOURCES:
https://criticallyloved.org/
https://www.criticallyloved.net/child-recently-diagnosed/
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The Love Languages: A Tool for Connecting with Traumatized Children
What do we do when we think our children have been traumatized? How do we help them heal? Yes, counseling is a good tool but what else can we do? In this episode, Jolene Philo shares how we can use the love languages to help bring healing to our children.
What do we do when we think our children have been traumatized? How do we help them heal? Yes, counseling is a good tool but what else can we do? In this episode, Jolene Philo shares how we can use the love languages to help bring healing to our children.
Jolene Philo is the author of the Different Dream series for parents of kids with special needs. She speaks at parenting and special needs conferences around the country. She recently co-authored Sharing Love Abundantly in Special Needs Families: The 5 Love Languages® for Parents Raising Children with Disabilities with Dr. Gary Chapman. Her blog for parents raising children with special needs and disabilities can be found at www.DifferentDream.com.
Resources:
https://differentdream.com/2016/10/find-trauma-therapist-kids/
https://differentdream.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DifferentDream/
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Episode 7 – 6 Hacks For Strengthening Your Family
As parents of children impacted by disability & special needs, it can often seem like we are in survival mode. In this episode, Becky Davidson walks us through practical steps that we can apply to strengthen our families. Through this episode, you will be better equipped for the journey ahead of you.
“This journey is going to be harder than you can imagine, but it is going to be one of the most richly rewarding experiences in your life. There is purpose in the pain, a message in the mess, and every trial will produce triumph. If you surrender your pain to God, then God will reveal himself to you in unspeakable ways.”
As parents of children impacted by disability & special needs, it can often seem like we are in survival mode. In this episode, Becky Davidson walks us through practical steps that we can apply to strengthen our families. Through this episode, you will be better equipped for the journey ahead of you.
Becky and her late husband, Jeff, co-founded Rising Above Ministries based in Cookeville, TN.
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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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Episode 3 – "Different Dream Parenting" With Jolene Philo
This episode of the Hope Anew Disability podcast features Jolene Philo. Jolene Philo is the mother of a son born with life-threatening special needs…
“He (God) knows the best path and He sets the best path for us, you just have to trust that. Trust His goodness. That it is the best thing for us.”
SUMMARY
This episode of the Hope Anew Disability podcast features Jolene Philo. Jolene Philo is the mother of a son born with life-threatening special needs. In her twenty-five years of teaching experience, worked with children with special needs in the classroom. She has written several books about caregiving, parenting children with special needs, and special needs inclusion ministry. She speaks at disability parenting conferences around the country, conducts accreditation workshops for foster and adoptive parents, and trains special needs children’s ministry leaders and volunteers. She and her husband live in Iowa.
In this episode, Jolene shares valuable realizations about life through her journey that began as child, as her dad had multiple sclerosis and continued as an adult when doctors discovered their son had a tracheoesophageal fistula.
You can connect with Jolene Philo at her website: www.DifferentDream.com
“Over time, I can look back that God was there every step of the way, and everything that happened to me, to my dad, to my son, to our family was preparation for what I’m doing now.”
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