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Hope Mommies Podcast - Gospel Hope for Grieving MomsEpisode 30: Christmas Greetings from One Hope Mom to AnotherChristmas morning can feel especially painful when you're missing your baby. There’s one less pair of Christmas pajamas to buy, one less pair of eyes lighting up at the sight of gifts beneath the tree. The silence can be deafening. We see you, Hope Mom. We understand the ache of empty arms and a heavy heart. In this special Christmas Day episode, we’ve joined together with 16 friends to bring you encouragement from one Hope Mom to another. You’ll hear from: Jennie Parks (1:48) Emily Copeland (3:45) Constan...2024-12-2539 min
Superstitions and Traditions#AITA Historical Edition 24Send us a textAnn Cooper Hewitt...A California heiress set to inherit 2/3 of her father's four-million-dollar estate, was sterilized by her mother just before her 21st birthday without her knowledge or consent. The eugenics movement in the US last 40 years, this was a common occurrence, and endorsed by the supreme court. but Ann fought back; she sued her mother and the doctors who performed the procedure.Support the showThanks for listening! We would love to hear from you, please leave a comment on spotify or text our show at the link o...2024-07-2129 min
CFAX Santas PodcastMiracle on Broad Street 2023 - Joan Ianson and Kristen Stannix - Heirloom Linens2023-12-1607 min
NBC Meet the PressNBC News Republican Presidential Debate moderated by Lester Holt and Kristen WelkerListen to the NBC News Republican Presidential debate — moderated by Lester Holt and Kristen Welker, joined by Hugh Hewitt — as five candidates face off on the debate stage: former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
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The Human ExperienceSelf compassion 💛💛Join Sydney this week to dive into the topic of self compassion. Inspired by Kristen Neff, we break down self compassion into 3 components and the importance of cultivating a practice of self compassion in our lives.In a world where its so easy to distract ourselves and ignore our own feelings its more important than ever to be kind and present to the pain we inevitably experience in the world. Kristen Neff's Website: https://self-compassion.org/ Stay connected with Sydney: https://www.instagram.com/syd.hewitt/Support the show2023-10-2917 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesPaul: A Kidnapping, An Adoption, A Lost Twin: One man's Quest for the TruthWhen he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around for Christmas presents in a crawl space in his family’s Chicago home. There, he found hundreds of old newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of a one-day-old infant in a hospital in 1964. He also learned that, two years later, the boy was found and returned to his family—and that the boy was him.Nearly fifty years later, Paul, acting on long-held suspicions, took a DNA test that proved he was not the kidnapped boy. In an instant, his world changed.He found out that...2023-04-0454 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesKay: A Self-taught Genetic Genealogist Discovers the Story of her LifeKay was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1973 and immediately placed for adoption. After a stay in foster care, she was adopted into a small close-knit family. Adoption was not discussed a great deal, but it was not hidden either. Despite being loved and spoiled, Kay was never quite comfortable in her own skin. She received her original birth certificate in 2015 and was able to locate her maternal biological family quickly. Unfortunately, her birth mother died 5 months later, and the identity of her birth father was left a mystery. Kay became a self-taught genetic genealogist. Using a 4th cousin match on Anc...2023-03-281h 06
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesCormac: An Adoption, An Irish Mother-Baby Home, and the Search for AnswersCormac was born into a mother-and-baby home in Ireland, which was known to be exceptionally cruel to both mother and child. He was adopted at five months old. He's always known he was adopted but it was never spoken about. Ever. He did not look for his biological family until his adoptive parents died. He re-connected with his birth mother just before his fiftieth birthday. Sadly that didn't work out. He's just recently found out about his birth father, who is deceased. He found this podcast by chance and is devouring it daily. He would like to send his g...2023-03-2145 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesShari: From Foster Home to Wounded HealerShari was adopted at the age of four. She spent the first year in a hospital. Then went to several foster homes after that. When she met her adopted family, there was always an open conversation about her beginnings. She always knew her story from her past, so she never had many questions. Later on in life, she began a spiritual quest to heal from journey, as a young girl. This brought her to meet a spiritual teacher, and become a healer. This powerful work helped others as well and grounded Shari into a bigger version of herself. A...2023-03-1450 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesGreg: Searching for a Place to Fit InGreg was born California in 1969 and placed in a closed adoption as an infant after spending 6 weeks in foster care, which was a common practice with Baby Scoop Era adoptions. Growing up, he sensed a certain ill-fit with his family, and found out about his adoption when he was 10. In 2006, at age 37, he finally discovered and made contact with his biological maternal side, and has experienced all the attendant ups-and-downs that so often accompany reunion. He was able to connect with his paternal family in late 2021, and is currently navigating the landscape and complexities of those newly-emerging relationships. Since...2023-03-0749 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesCharity: Sometimes it takes Loss to be FoundCharity Elliott was born in 1969 and after spending 3.5 months in foster care was placed for adoption with the State of California. Growing up in Missouri, Charity was a happy adoptee and found great comfort in her faith and in the sport of basketball. After a collegiate career that ended with her team making it to the Final Four, Charity entered the college coaching ranks where she has spent the last 25 years. Despite being located and contacted by her birth mother in college, Charity never realized the impact her adoption had on her until she lost her adopted father and sho...2023-02-2848 min
The Locher RoomSusan Scannell Gilbert - Interview 5-10-2022Please join actress Susan Scannell Gilbert live in The Locher Room to look back at her career and time working in daytime television.Susan is well-known for her roles on Search For Tomorrow (Kristen Carter Emerson), Ryan’s Hope (Gabriel Dubujak) and appearances on One Life to Live and All My Children. Susan is also known for her debut role on the soap opera Another Life (Becky Hewitt) produced by the Christian Broadcasting Network where she wrote songs to be performed by her character. Daytime soaps led to a contract role on the ABC hit prime-time series, Dynasty, an...2023-02-2459 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesJim: When Trauma Leads to LoveJim Serrano's origins as a domestic adoptee started on January 22nd, 1962 in San Jose, California. Being adopted at 6 months of age, his journey has had many ups and downs. From childhood to his search for his biological family 23 years ago, Jim continues to heal from the trauma that is still so present in his life.Also in this episode, Sarah and Louise discuss what's upcoming for Season Three.If you'd like to read along with Sarah and Louise, go here: The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. HomesThank you to our sponsor S12...2023-02-2159 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesEmily: Putting the Pieces of Life Back TogetherEmily Sinagra was born and relinquished, in 1958, at a Salvation Army Hospital for Unwed Mothers. After four months of foster care, she was placed in a closed adoption. Thirty years later, she found her birth parents and has been trying to put herself back together ever since. Writing, theatre, improv, clowning, painting, these are the tools she wields to patch and paste. Her memoir, How I got Born, is nearing completion, and she hopes her voice will collaborate with others to change assumptions about adoption and provide impetus for change. Most importantly, she is the mother of three adult...2023-02-141h 11
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesAdam: When Pain Becomes GrowthAdam Anthony is a same-race, black adoptee and blogger on the platform "Onward & Upward," which explores his motivation for persona development, mental health awareness, and his adoption discovery experience. Adam is a doctoral student, writer, and podcast host of two shows, "Curiously Becoming" and "Mentorship Mondays." Some of his featured writing on his perspectives on being an adoptee has been shown in online mediums like "Love What Matters" and "Severance Magazine."Onward & Upward https://inspire-explore-promote.blogAlso in this episode, Sarah and Louise discuss A.M. Homes' The M...2023-02-0756 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesRuth: A Mother Searches for a MotherRuth Bendig is a “Baby Scoop Era” domestic adoptee. The oldest of her adoptiveparents' three children, she and her brothers were all relinquished as infants and raised in the Midwest.Becoming a mother jump-started a desire to learn more about her biological history.WIth the support and encouragement of her adoptive parents she began to search, first through the state, then, when that proved to be a dead end, through DNA testing. She is now in reunion with siblings and cousins on both sides of her biological family.Also in this episode, Sara...2023-01-3154 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesGarth: A Midlife Discovery Exposes the Truth of SelfGiven up at birth, placed in foster care, then adopted by a military family, Garth Garrett grew up always knowing he was adopted. He thought being adopted was no big deal - like being left-handed in a right-handed family and that his lingering sense of longing stemmed from the nomadic life of an Army brat. Only upon starting therapy in mid-life did he discover that adoption was actually the central issue of his life, including his own alienation from his own feelings. His multiple searches for each biological parent yielded information, more heartbreak, two more rejections by his biological...2023-01-241h 05
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesFrom Happiness to Despair and Back AgainDaphne Keys is a BSE adoptee born and raised in Maryland as the middle child between two brothers who are the biological children of her adoptive parents. Daphne always knew she was adopted, had access to the minimal non-identifying information provided at her adoption hearing, and always searched the faces of her community for a connection to her biological family.Married for forty years, Daphne is the mother of four adult children and grandmother of eleven. Daphne did not realize the impact her adoption had on her ability to bond with and parent her own children until...2023-01-1050 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesFrom Only Child to a CommunityJon Stautzenberger is a pastor in the Texas hill country. He grew up an only child from a small family in a closed, private adoption always knowing that he was locally adopted and grew up in the community of his birth family. He finally took a DNA test in 2021 and connected with his paternal aunt. Suddenly the only child from a small family found himself with three aunts, three uncles, cousins galore, and a sister and a brother! Being from the same community, the times that their paths had crossed were astonishing.Moving forward Jon desires to...2022-12-2755 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesWhat Happened When the Fog LiftedAmy Hansen is a domestic adoptee, and was born in 1969. She was placed for adoption at birth. Amy grew up in a loving family and was well cared for. She was the "happy" adoptee, grateful to her birth parents, her adopted parents and always trying to make everyone happy. Amy has been in reunion with some of her birth family for the past four years and has recently come out of the FOG. She is beginning to realize she was living behind the disguise of a happy, positive person who didn’t realize the loss and grief she was carr...2022-12-1349 min
Townhall Review | Full Interviews & MonologuesSpeech Interference: Hugh Hewitt and Kristen WaggonerIn this episode, Hugh Hewitt talks with Kristen Waggoner, CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), about her arguments before the Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis, where Lorie Smith, a graphic and website designer, is challenging a Colorado law that would require her to create designs that violate her beliefs about marriage. 👉Follow Hugh on Twitter 👉Follow Kristen on TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2022-12-0706 min
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee StoriesWhen a Seeker Turns into a GuideDaryn Watson is a Canadian-born Domestic Adult Adoptee who began his adoption reunion journey in 1995 after locating his maternal family in Canada. Daryn uses his 25+ years of experience in reunion to guide other adoptees through their adoption reunion journeys. Daryn is a contributing author to two books on adoption:“The Adoptee Survival Guide” edited by Lynn Grubb “Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology with Diane Rene Christianson.Daryn also has a blog on Facebook and IG “@TheAdopteeMind”Daryn is a Certified Life Coach for Adoptees, Birth/First Parents and others who have been affected by adoption...2022-11-2958 min