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 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.”
Resources:
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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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Artist: http://incompetech.com/