This podcast is so helpful if you are considering fostering or adopting!! I have often felt overwhelmed with all of the information in the world and I love the practical help Christine offers through her episodes!!!

Being a foster parent comes with its reward, but you have to go through all of the challenges to get there. One of the biggest challenges is learning new personalities and struggles of a child who just stepped into your house. You don’t get to see them grow and change over a lifetime. Thank you for being honest on your podcast to talk about the challenges and how we can overcome them.

Christine does such a great job of helping mamas not feel alone! Her passion for her kids and for the Lord is contagious!

Please keep making more episodes. I’ve devoured all your episodes in just a few days. I’ve learned so much! Thank you for your honesty, openness , and vulnerability.

A great podcast that highlights the often complex process of fostering and adopting. If you have questions most likely your answers are found here

She seems like a nice lady, but it felt too preachy for me. I’m glad you’re here for the folks looking for that, but I’m moving on.

I am going to try again. I wrote a lenghly review but for some reason was rejected just like I was for most of my life. I am learning much from your podcast. I am on the other side of the spectrum. I am a trauma survivor. I believe that I finally know what my diagnosis should be. I think I must be a RAD survivor but it has continued in my adult life. I did not get the therapy I needed. I wonder how old I am emotionally I am 78 chronilogiaaly . I know that I lost two years of my life some where. When I met my husband t thought I was a young 46 turns out I was 48. That’s what trauma does to you. I want to give you a 10 star review if it wasn’t for you I still wouldn’t know my diagnosis. I believe that God used this time to train me to be an Empath and a Overcomer . The good that came out of this I share my testimony on face book.I give them hope . I chose to forgive those who hurt and abused me in every way possible. I am sharing your podcast with others. Your guest was right share with others what you have gone through. I discovered this when I was 77 in therapy finally. I would give a couple of suggestions for either foster care or adoption. If the child is old enough please include them in the decision. It’s bad when you’re adopted at the age of eight adoption nullified at the age of thirteen. This is what happened to me. The other suggestion is to limit the amount of kids you are fostering. Each child comes with their own unique challanges. I am facing new challanges everyday after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease last summer. I want to reach out to people while God allows me too. He gift me the gift of writing Christian Poetry another way to share my faith. My therapist is having me write my story. Most would have turned away from God I ran to Him. The point that I am trying to express there is still hope after trauma. Maybe my brain was damaged. I don’t know I just know that some of my . past memories are gone Paula Day

What a wonderful resource for foster parents. This is a great a tool for people wanting to fostering

I recently listened to the show with Ray Higdon and it was awesome. There was so much value and the conversation was sincere. Thank you for the episode

Christine is so genuine! Great podcast

Thank you for sharing your experiences, giving support, your positivity and your wisdom! I appreciate you opening up and being vulnerable to better help the future foster parents and foster children. Thank you for talking about your faith and encouragement to others to do the same 💗.

Thank you so much for doing these podcasts! This is information that I feel like no one else is covering, but has been so needed for my family.

PLEASE continue your podcasts! They have extremely helpful to my husband and I!

Please keep making podcasts!! My husband and I are looking to start our foster care journey and your podcasts have been very helpful in our learning about foster care as a whole.

This podcast channel is both just sweet and smart. What I mean is the episodes are sweet and interesting but to the point. And Christine is to the point so it’s smart to listen if you’re interested in being a foster parent!

I found this podcast while we were getting ready to become foster parents. It has been a huge blessing to me and it is very insightful. I have learned so much just by listening to her experiences and sharing what she wishes someone would’ve shared with her. Great podcast and definitely worth a listen!

As someone who has thought about fostering but has no idea what it entails, this podcast is such a blessing! Her story is inspiring and passion is encouraging. Love this podcast!!

Such a wonderful took to assist and walk along side those in the system. such great topics and questions, thank you!

For years I wanted to adopt but in the Lord’s providence I wasn’t able to do so. But if we could this would have been such a valuable resource.

Found your podcast on a whim searching for first hand experience for foster/adoption/kinship etc. thank you for being raw and real, especially the episode on your ADHD and anxiety. I have both as well and it’s reassuring to hear from others that those are not a reason to not go down the path to adopt or be a guardian or foster parent.

Helpful and encouraging!

I love this podcast and really enjoyed the episode on RAD. However, it is totally possible for RAD to be healed. I know a very sweet lady who used to be RAD and have been involved in a camp helping children heal. For more info and resources go to attachment.org.

Wow, wasn’t expecting to find such a great speaker and such amazing, honest, kind insight on a quick search today. She brings up some great points and creates a space to encourage introspection. This is a great podcast to start the process of considering foster/adoption. Well done, looking forward to more episodes. Thank you for bringing your experiences to this format to help others.

Listening to you is helping me become a better parent to my children. We do not have any fosters kids, and have not adopted, but we do have adopted family members. I love your insights - and your selflessness to share these is going to help so many people get through so many situations they may not have even thought of! You are an amazing person for doing this ministry 💜

Wow! I love how honest and transparent you are by sharing about your experience and journey. This podcast is going to be a blessing for many families. Congratulations on being obedient and opening you heart Christine! ❤️

I can wait to listen and learn from what you’re bringing to this community of parents! Thank you for raising awareness and bringing light to the darkness!

Thank you for sharing your experience and giving hope to so many!! You truly are such an inspiration, Christine!!

Christine has been called by God to bring this podcast to life and serve so many foster adoptive parents. Listening to her first few episode made me cry and made me realize there are things that still needs healing as an ex foster parent. She is not only called and gifted but is full of experience and knowledge to support you on your journey. Thank You Christine 🩷🩷🩷

Yes! Please talk about all the things, the taboo, the uncomfortable. Our pollute society needs more warriors and saviors like you. I’m a new foster and hopeful adopt parent and this podcast is on my list. Christine was gracious enough to share some time with me and gave me such important insight on understanding a kiddo’s behavior. She knows what she’s talking about.

After listening to Christine’s podcast on being an fostering and adoption, I have been enlightened. There is a calm presence and lots of knowledge on these topics. Thank you Christine!

Christine hides nothing as she discusses how fostering children that eventually lead to the adoption of two beautiful girls, has impacted her life. She’s real. She talks about how GOD was involved in her decisions to adopt. Each podcast gets deeper and deeper. Enjoy friends.

Christine Marie is doing what she is called to do & it’s so very obvious! This podcast is so good!! I’m so inspired by her journey & her absolute dedication to follow God’s will-no matter what! ❤️

There’s nothing like a warm cookie and sip of tea to talk life over with someone walking your same journey. This is what Christine offers to those in the foster adopt world. Pull up your chair and lean in… she gracefully imparts wisdom and truth.

Thanks for sharing and I look forward to lots more. Positive podcasts for those of us with Reactive Attachment Disorder Kids is so needed. Looking forward to more and being able to share with those around us to help them understand and support. It’s not RARE in adopted kids!! Thanh you !!

Honest down to earth and easy to listen to!!

Christine, this was absolutely beautiful. WOW, I’m not fostering nor looking into adoption but loved listening to this podcast. This can and will definitely help so many looking into fostering. You and your husband have a big heart… 77 foster kiddos! Amazing! I would definitely share this with anyone seeking help and advice. ~Carmen

This is absolutely amazing. The trailer had me in tears- and I’m hooked. As someone who has not experienced any of this, I find myself excited to listen and be able to support others in my life who are foster and adoptive families.

I know that so many foster and adoptive families will benefit greatly from Christine’s podcast. Her story will continue to bless so many as they learn and relate to her varying topics. Thank you, Christine, for pursuing your calling by sharing experiences of fostering and adopting! I cannot wait to follow you in this journey!

She is the best!

Christine has a heart to help foster and adoptive parents and it really shines through in her podcasts! Listening to her helps me feel like I’m not alone and like there is someone out there who believes in me and is willing to step I to the mess to help me!

Christine Marie is a wonderful communicator. This is the perfect podcast for anyone who is interested in sound foster care or adopting through the foster care system. Just the first podcast alone has so much valuable information in it. And I love her down to earth communication style!

I can’t wait to hear what the next podcast will say! I was so intrigued by this story and just getting to know more about my friends life and foster parenting is such a huge part of Christine’s Story. I’m so grateful to be learning about something I don’t know a lot about!

Christine, this podcast is such a blessing. I personally am not a foster or adopting mama, but I do share a close relationship to the world of fostering as my mother has been a foster parent for quite a few years. I used to always wonder how she figured things out, how she was able to be so strong throughout the years, and most of all why the system was the way it is! I am excited to keep tuning in! 10/10 my friend. So many people will be blessed by this!

Thank you for your wisdom. Fresh information and perspective on RAD is so important when the day to day grind of it burns mommas to the ground. My husband and I have two AD - they each have RAD - but the two opposite ones - each day is very challenging.

Must listen for anyone considering fostering or adopting or is just interested in the foster care system. Christine knows her stuff ❤️

Very informative and based on real life instances so you hear it straight from the heart.

Love hearing how God moved in your life to love on and serve the children he put in your life even if for a short while. God is going to use this to help so many others that are currently in this journey or are praying about this next step.

I love that you are doing this. Your experience will help so many. So many babies and so many options. It is a lot to navigate.

This podcast is amazing! I love that Christine Marie shares personal stories and experiences that are relatable. She does a great job at connecting with people and ensuring that people know they are not alone in their struggles. There are so many challenges with our systems for fostering, adopting and with mental health that are not discussed on the regular and leave people feeling lost. Her knowledge of the systems and background dealing with the challenges of fostering and adopting make this such a great podcast. I love that she relates to her training in biblical neuroscience to tie it all together too. Definitely recommend this one for everyone fostering, adopting, or just dealing with a child that they feel like they can’t relate to other parents with.