reFRAMED Podcast Presented by the Gladney Center for Adoption

Resources:The Gladney Home Sensory RoomsWebsite - Stacy's Sensory SolutionsFacebook - Stacy's Sensory SolutionsThe Gladney Home

Speaker:Bill Porter, MA has 20 years of experience in providing counseling, support and advocacy to at-risk children, youth, and families. Bill joined the Gladney Family in 2013 and he spends most of his time leading his team in providing “best practices” to adoptees, birth families and adoptive families. Bill has been trained through the Trust-based Relational Intervention TBRI® at Texas Christian University and has provided clinical supervision and consultation in evidenced based programming. Bill received his Bachelors of Arts in Religion from Southern Nazarene University and his Masters of Education in Counseling from North Texas University. Safety:A child has to feel safe physically and emotionally. We underestimate fear and anxiety. If you are never available for your child as a safe base, then you're not doing your job as a parent. Connection:Find ways to engage with your child even though you might be rejected. One of the most important things to remember is that it's never your child's responsibility to find ways to connect with you. It's your responsibility to find ways to connect with your child. What does your child like? What does your child want to do?When you have your safety and your connect working, then you get to do the other parenting stuff like correcting. Resources:The Power of Showing Up, by Daniel J. Siegel MD, Tina Payne Bryson PhD, et al.Gladney UniversityThe Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage, by Brené Brown

Resources:Parent Goals: The Millennial's Guide to New Parent Preparedness, by Lindsay C.M. GarrettLindsay's WebsiteInstagram - @lindsaycmgarrettGladney University - Join Lindsay as she provides a wonderful training in January 2022.Produced by Gladney Center for Adoption

Meet our Season 3 Host, Tiffany Anderson! LinkedIn ProfileEmailLet us know topics you'd like us to cover on Season 3 by emailing adoption@gladney.org!

Gladney University recently had the honor of presenting Bridging the Gap: Strengthening Competencies of Transracial Adoptive Parents. We enjoyed the training so much that we just had to continue the conversation. Resources: Ebony Mack, MSW. LinkedIn Rachel Garlinghouse, "Come Rain. Come Shine" Show Notes: 1:58 - How do you prepare yourself to adopt transracially? 3:05 - What are the biggest concern that children of color adopted by white parents express? 4:06 - Should you talk about your child about race? 5:25 - What would you share to an adoptive parent about adopting transracially? 6:31 - What kind of mentors should you look for you and your child? 7:07 - Do adoptive parents who adopt a child of another race need to be part of their child's race? 8:01 - Do children of color want to be adopted by parents of another race?

On this Bonus Episode of reFRAMED we talk with two professionals who deal with Human Trafficking daily. You can't go more than a week without hearing a story on the news about human trafficking. You might think that this doesn't happen near you. Think again. For more information and resources, read our blog post.

reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, talked with Jorge Gama, LPC-S, about secondary trauma. Secondary trauma has PTSD-like symptoms. Those that are affected by this type of trauma look at their life in a different way than they would normally after being affected by trauma. Watch and listen to their conversation. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. For contact information and additional resources, please check out the Show Notes.

Dr. Erin Espinosa joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk teen girls in our juvenile justice system. Girls in institutions are three times higher rate trauma than boys which predicts a longer stay. Watch and listen to their conversation. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Learn more on Show Notes

Kris Bryant the Founder, Owner and Therapist at The DBT Institute of Oklahoma, joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk about DBT Therapy. Watch and listen to their conversation. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. For resources and contact information, please check out our Show Notes.

Heather Rogers, LPC, Supervisor, Residential Services – Gladney Home, joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk about birth parent grief. Watch and listen to their conversation. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. For additional information and resources, please visit our Show Notes.

Heather Rogers, LPC, Supervisor, Residential Services – Gladney Home, joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk about parenting teenagers. Watch and listen to their conversation. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for additional resources.

reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, and Lindsay Garrett, LMSW, talk about working with parents to show them how to offer predictability to their children in their day-to-day lives. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out our Show Notes for additional resources.

reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, and Monique Lee, LCSW, talk about all things sensory. Parents need to be like an investigator; watching and journaling the child's behavior and actions. Monique shares about setting up a sensory diet and all that it entails. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out our Show Notes for additional resources.

Emily Morehead, LPC and Bill Porter, MA talk about neurobiologic stress. Our neurobiology is more than just our brain. Our neurons run through our body, our gut, our limbic system (emotions) and our mind. The stress we experience affects all the areas. It's not just in our brain. If left to it's own devices, our neurobiological responses usually become either over reactive or under reactive. And that's were we get into trouble. In many instances, our survival responses can be destructive to our relationships. Our overreaction or under reaction can affect our relationships with our kids, our spouses, our parents, our coworkers and on and on. Learn more by listening or watching today! Check out our Show Notes for additional information and resources.

Guest Heidi Bruegel Cox, General Counsel & Executive Vice President of the Gladney Center for Adoption joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk about reframing the evolution of adoption. Watch and listen to their conversation. Check out our Show Notes for additional information and resources.

Guest Robyn Gobbel, LCSW, RPT-S, joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk about sensory and emotional regulation. Through years of working with complex trauma children, Robyn recognized that she wasn't adequately trained or prepared to know how to support the child, the environment, and their regulation. When the body is so out of control, there is no trauma processing or attachment happening. It's crucial to believe that every single thing that someone does is done in an attempt to themselves feel better. Watch and listen to their conversation. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out our Show Notes for contact information for Robyn and further resources.

Three music therapists joined reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LP to share about the power of music therapy. Music accesses every part of the brain which has huge implications as music as a therapy. Our bodies are very musical and rhythmic and when your body does that, your brain releases dopamine which is key to forming new neural connections. Music is a way to connect and socialize in a non-verbal way. Having music as a healthy form of sensory input is so helpful for those on the spectrum. Watch and find out how music can be a motivator for daily tasks as well as transitions with children. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Guest Marshall Lyles joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk about trauma. A lot of families ask a lot of questions about trauma and our goal is to break down this big topic into bite-size pieces. There's a phrase that our listeners probably hear a lot, "trauma-informed care", which does mean a lot but doesn't communicate a lot. Marshall defines trauma as any event that any person would go through that gets stored in the memory in a way that it then starts to interfere with their functioning. Trauma is more about how those memories are stored than it does about the actual events that happened. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out our Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Guest Robyn Gobbel, LCSW, RPT-S, joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to talk about grief and transitions in the adoption and foster world. While adoption is beautiful, sometimes there are hard places before reaching the final destination. Robyn has found throughout her practice that the littlest information or even a script is enough to help parents to know how to talk to their child about transitions and grief that are happening or going to happen. Being able to talk through the transitions is like a building block and an empowerment piece. As a therapist, Robyn shared that she is constantly working with clients to understand that they can have more than one feeling at a time. Take a look at our Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Guest Lauren Labeth, LCSW, joins reFRAMED Podcast Host, Emily Morehead, LPC, to discuss making play a powerful tool for parents, teachers, and child professionals. Lauren shares with our listeners that based on the dimensions of structure, nurture, engagement, and challenge, Theraplay® allows parents and children to strengthen attachment, build self-esteem, and participate in a more positive relationship with one another. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Society has some stigmas around who a birth parent is, why someone would choose to place their child for adoption. These stigmas can write a story that is not the birth parent's story. As Megan Devine says, "joy and pain can coexist". Adoption is beautiful and families are made, and it is born out of loss. "Never should a birth parent be shamed for what she chose to do -- what she found best for her and her child." ~ Katie Check out the Show Notes for additional resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Heidi Bruegel Cox, JD, talk about Heidi's passion project -- foster care. Gladney has a great project going on right now. We are trying to get as many children out of foster care as possible. Once the plan is adoption for the child, we want to help those children find homes as soon as possible. At Gladney, we believe every child needs a place to call home and people to call family. Forever. Together, we can ensure children have permanent, loving, and caring families, because every child deserves them. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Pam Dyson, LPC-S, talk about reframing anxiety in children. Anxiety is the the most common reason why children are in therapy. While some anxiety in children is age appropriate and typical, that anxiety can sometimes get out of control. The out of control anxiety is generally when parents bring their child to a therapist. So how do you differentiate between the typical anxiety of starting a new school year, meeting new people versus a chronic, consistent issue? Listen in as Pam helps us reframe the worry monsters. Check out the Show Notes for further resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Ashley Whiteside, LMSW, LCPAA talk about reframing how you look and feel about adoption. They break down what the adoption process might look like from the ground up. From using correct adoption language to the role of a birth parent caseworker, you will leave feeling more informed and less daunted about the intricate details of domestic adoption no matter who you are. This insightful discussion sheds light not only the challenges of adoption from all perspectives, but also the great triumphs that only your unique adoption journey will bring. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Mary Kathryn Nader, LPC, talk about reframing helping grieving children at the school system. This episode covers a multitude of ways that parents and teachers can work together to help these grieving kids navigate the heavy life changes they are experiencing and implement coping mechanisms that work specifically for them. The resources given will not only help reframe our response to grieving children, but also the community response to these special children as a whole. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Bailey Guthrie, Gladney adoptive parent, and Ashley Whiteside, LMSW, talk about reframing the adoption journey through domestic infant adoption. Bailey and Ashley discuss the process of adoption, along with the emotions adoptive parents are likely going through and experiencing. Bailey explains her story of loss and grief associated with her personal experience of her son's adoption process. Ashley gives adoptive parents advice on how to deal with the emotions surrounding adoption. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Staci Danford, MBE, talk about reframing your brain with gratitude. As the episode explores the difference between casual thanks and meaningful gratitude, you will start to see how practicing gratitude can impact your life in a real way. You will learn not only why practicing gratitude is important, but also how you can do it and teach your sphere of influence to practice gratitude as well. In this enlightening conversation, Staci unpacks the science of gratitude in a simple way that only someone with her background and level of expertise could achieve. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Elena Hall, Gladney adoptee from Russia and author of Through Adopted Eyes, talk about reframing our thoughts on adoption from the perspective of an adoptee. Elena and Emily have a great conversation ranging from identity as an adoptee to traveling back to the mother country with interesting perspectives and insight. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, Connie Avila and Ashley Scott talk about how to navigate the in's and out's of the teenage brain in today's world. As daunting as understanding red flags in your teenager's behavior and the huge role of social media in their life may feel, it is tackling these types of tricky issues that will open up the crucial line of communication between you and your teen. Whether your child is struggling with a mental health disorder or perhaps just feeling overwhelmed, this discussion was created with you and your child in mind as you attempt to step into this incredible phase of life together with the tools needed to look back on these teen years with a smile on your face. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, and Kobi Tobin, MSN, RNC-NIC, CPN, talk about reframing our thoughts on substance abuse during pregnancy. We hear from Kobi that there's no such thing as an addicted baby. The baby has a physical dependence to whatever the birth mother was taking. As an adoptive parent, ask for education and find out what the plan is from the medical team. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

The reFRAMED Podcast answers questions that our listeners have asked about adoption and particularly adoption at the Gladney Center for Adoption. If you have a question about adoption that we didn't answer in this bonus episode of reFRAMED, please email podcast@gladney.org and stay tuned for our next Q&A bonus episode! Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Season 1: Episode 5 reFRAMED Podcast host Emily Morehead, LPC, and guest Bill Porter, M.Ed. talk about reframing our children's brain development. Every time you provide physical care, instructional care, and emotional care for your child (no matter their age), you are writing yourself into your child's brain. "What fires together, wires together." ~ Donald Hebb, a Canadian neuropsychologist known for his work in the field of associative learning. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Season 1: Episode 4 Emily Morehead, LPC, and Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD talk about how reframing early childhood experiences helps wire the child's brain so they become capable and successful. Connection is what matters. Parents are an important influence on their child and are capable of being a good quality influence on their child's development and outcome. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC and Lindsay Garrett, LCSW, have a conversation with Rhonda Roorda, MA, about Embracing the Heart, Mind, and Spirit of Transracial Adoption, focusing on honoring culture, embracing history, and working as a nation to seek the best possible outcomes for children of color who are adopted by white families. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC, Ginny Manley, LPC and Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S , EMDRIA Approved Consultant have a conversation about taking a breath and being in the moment in order to have mindful awareness of what's needed for your child. Modeling acceptance, honesty and grace to provide the opportunity to be in the moment so you can be available for your child giving you permission to breathe. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.

Emily Morehead, LPC and Mary Kathryn Nader, LPC (The WARM Place) have a conversation about dealing with all kinds of grief. Grief over a death; a loss of culture through an international adoption; a loss of a birth child through placing a child for adoption; a loss of caretakers and family life as you know it through removal by Child Protection Services. We are striving to make an impact in our world through creating conversations about topics that are important to you and yours. Check out the Show Notes for resources and contact information.