MARION: ON TRAUMA PARENTING IN A PANDEMIC + NEW MERCIES FOR QUARANTINE + GOLDFISH & RED WINE
This chat was so welcomed amidst the current uncertainties and - let’s face it - chaos that COVID-19 has brought into our lives. Not only are we as moms trying to wrestle through information and emotions and disruptions to our daily routines during this pandemic, but our kids - many with trauma backgrounds - are too struggling to understand it all. On this week’s episode, Marion Smyser, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, sheds some light on trauma parenting in a pandemic and the grace we all so desperately need. She shares from personal experience as a foster and adoptive mom and we chat real life struggles in parenting during this time! Listen in on our conversation - I know you’ll be blessed!
• The intro song, The Source, is brought to you by one of the best new worship bands out there, The Evidence. Yes, the frontman is my (talented, brilliant, adorable, Jesus-loving) cousin. No, that's not why I love them.
• Anytime anyone is chatting trauma parenting, I HAVE to share about The Connected Child by Karen Purvis. This book is a fantastic edition to your library if you are a foster or adoptive parent! And coming this July, a new trauma parenting resource will be available - The Connected Parent by Karen Purvis and Lisa Qualls It is currently available for pre-order and is sure to be another valuable resource for us moms with kids from hard places.
• Porter’s Gate Worship Collection - Work Songs and Neighbor Songs - has been Marion’s go-to quarantine playlist and has encouraged her in the hard walk and work of social work.
• Marion shares that she’s currently reading Helping without Hurting but that her true love in reading is Historical Fiction so she’s really LOVING America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie.
