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Author Keri Williams Addresses Reactive Attachment Disorder

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - March 27, 2024 21:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode, I talk with award-winning author and advocate, Keri Williams, about her two-decade journey as a foster and adoptive parent, highlighting the challenges of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). Keri shares her personal adoption experiences and the behavioral challenges she faced. S...

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Author Karen Springs Encourages Parents Who Adopted Children Internationally

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - February 21, 2024 18:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Karen Springs provides cutting-edge research about how adoptive families wit kids adopted from overseas have progressed.  In her new book—THE BACKSEAT OF ADOPTION, she shares How the families she worked with in Europe are currently progressing.  Are the children thriving?  Are the parents thri...

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Adoptee Julie Ryan McGue's Search for Origins

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - January 26, 2024 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
What could be more exciting than to be an adopted person and find the family that you never knew existed?  All Rights Reserved. @sherrieeldridge

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Navigating Adoptee Birthdays

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - August 16, 2023 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Hi, my friends. Well, we're going to visit the subject of adoptee birthdays again today. I just recently had one. I'm well into my seventh decade of life, and I look back and I realize that there are so many things that I couldn't say or explain. About adoptee birthdays in my younger years, but ...

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Sherrie Encourages Younger Fellow-Adopted Children

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - July 18, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Sometimes, adopted  children  get discouraged about numerous meltdowns and need encouragement from someone who's been there--author Sherrie Eldridge. Eldridge crafted this short message just for the children by sharing the reason for meltdowns, which is trauma. Children are taught that because o...

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Sherrie Encourages Adoptees and Foster Kids

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - July 18, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Sometimes, adopted and fostered kids get discouraged about numerous meltdowns and need encouragement from someone who's been there--author Sherrie Eldridge. Eldridge crafted this short message just for the children by sharing the reason for meltdowns, which is trauma. Children are taught that be...

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Susan Tebos Shares Book for Adopted Teens

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - May 11, 2023 18:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
And I'm very excited about this guest that's going to be talking with me during the next segment. It is Susan Tebows, who is the author of, we've Been There, true Stories, surprising Insights, and Aha Moments for Adopted Teens. Susan is a writer, speaker, bible study leader and adoptive mom. And...

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Dafna Lender LCSW, Describes Adoptee Loss

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - April 02, 2023 18:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Teen and adult adoptees will be encouraged by such a gifted therapist as Dafna Lender LCSW. Dafna shares initially how her upbringing challenged her to be a voice for those that have no voice.  Hearing her validation of the adoptee loss is moving and will bless the heart of every adoptee that li...

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Ron Nydam Ph.D. Revisits Adoption and Relinquishment

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - March 09, 2023 18:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Ron Nydam, Ph.D., is a highly respected and beloved pastor, speaker, author, counselor, and teacher in the field of adoption.  For the last two decades, he educated international audiences about  relinquishment and adoption. These two topics are his specialty and he addresses them with the fines...

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Derek Clark Urges Fostered Teens to Never Give Up

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - January 31, 2023 20:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Derek Clark’s life is one of resilience and redemption. As a child he suffered unthinkable child abuse, abandonment and emotional distress before being turned over to the psychiatric hospital at age five. His 13 years in the San Francisco bay area foster care system reflected an early life of hu...

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The Hot Potato of Adoptee Anger

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - January 17, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Bronwen interviews Sherrie on a rare topic--adoptee anger. They discuss the two kinds of anger and emphasize the fact that anger itself is good--its a God-given emotion that warns us if something is wrong, like the red light on a dashboard.  Anger can become toxic when anger is stuffed and turns...

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One Mom's Story about Adopting Internationally

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - November 05, 2022 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Bronwen Smith, a mom who adopted from Korea, shares the real-life struggles and joys of adopting internationally. Learn how she and her husband decided to adopt,  how they chose the country to adopt from, what it was like to take off in the plane with the knowledge that their son was leaving his...

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The Trauma Wound of Adoptive and Foster Moms

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - September 08, 2022 19:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Not only must adoptive and foster moms understand the depth of their child’s pre-adoption pain, but also their own trauma wound. “What wound?” they may say. “My child is the one with the deep wound, not me. Don’t be ridiculous.”  Adoptive moms may be offended or defensive when told they have a ...

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Adopted Kids May See Adoptive Mom As An Enemy

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - August 03, 2022 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Sometimes, adopted kids see their adoptive moms as an enemy. Does that mean there's something wrong with them? Bad genes? Bad character? A million times, no! Adoptees have been deeply wounded, first through the loss of their first mothers, and second, by being placed into the arms of strangers. ...

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What Kind of Love Adoptees Really Need

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - June 28, 2022 18:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This podcast reveals how adoption's parent/child relationships oftentimes become strained and explains that the strain is not the fault of parent nor child.   Five adoptive moms give real-life examples of strain. Sherrie Eldridge reveals the greatest gift parents can give their kids in every sit...

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The Greatest Gift Adoptive Parents Can Give Their Kiddos

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - June 28, 2022 18:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This podcast reveals how adoption's parent/child relationships oftentimes become strained and explains that the strain is not the fault of parent nor child.   Five adoptive moms give real-life examples of strain. Sherrie Eldridge reveals the greatest gift parents can give their kids in every sit...

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What Kind of Love Adoptees Need

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - June 28, 2022 18:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This podcast reveals how adoption's parent/child relationships oftentimes become strained and explains that the strain is not the fault of parent nor child.   Five adoptive moms give real-life examples of strain. Sherrie Eldridge reveals the greatest gift parents can give their kids in every sit...

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Boot Camp for Adoptive Parents

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - May 12, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Relationships between adoptive moms and their kids will involve more stress than bio kids and parents. If an adoptive mother isn't educated about this reality, she may conclude that her parenting is inferior--"I thought it was me and my inability to nurture and support them properly." Sherrie E...

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Preparing for Adoptee Push Back

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - May 12, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Relationships between adoptive moms and their kids will involve more stress than bio kids and parents. If an adoptive mother isn't educated about this reality, she may conclude that her parenting is inferior--"I thought it was me and my inability to nurture and support them properly." Sherrie E...

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The Dance of Adoption

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - January 13, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
There are many adoptive parents whose adopted children can't receive their love. If we liken it to a dance, the adopted child may delight in stepping on the parent's toes. Sherrie Eldridge explains why this happens from an adoptee perspective, as well as sharing adoptive parent thoughts about th...

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Junk Transforms to Treasure

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - September 08, 2021 22:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Podcast #2 Many adoptees and foster children haven't been told that it's possible to find freedom from their painful past. Sherrie reviews the literature that's been available, especially that of Nancy Verrier's THE PRIMAL WOUND. The case is made that in physical healing, validation of the woun...

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Good News for the World of Adoption!

20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - July 18, 2021 19:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Sherrie Eldridge introduces herself as a veteran adoptee and adoption author, but enthusiastically invites adoptive, birth, foster, step parents and her fellow adoptees to join her in discovering wonderful new research and experience in the world of adoption: 1. The child's brain records parent...

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