On today’s episode, Melissa chats with her husband Jon about Christmas, the holidays, Santa, and also some other random stuff. It’s always a fun time when both Melissa and Jon are on the show so you will definitely get some good tips, but also will mostly just laugh a lot. Enjoy!

On today’s episode, Melissa interviews three of her children about all things Christmas! It’s fun and entertaining….stick around until the end when her son Niah tells a very creative fiction Christmas story that you won’t want to miss! Happy Holidays!

On today’s episode, Melissa and her three friends, Hannah, Cassie and Danielle, all share their thoughts on the best and not so best Christmas gifts for kids. Whether you are looking for ideas for your own kids, or you are a relative, teacher, coach or neighbor, these ladies have all the greatest ideas! See below for links to purchase many of the items they chat about!

On today’s episode, Julee shares about how her family got into foster care and how that has led them down the path of moving towards adoption. Julee opens up about how their decision to foster didn’t happen overnight and through grief and loss in their life, they moved slowly. She talks about the ups and downs of foster care, and gives us some great things to consider when stepping into parenting kids from hard places.

On today’s episode, Hannah shares their journey to adopting their son and all that they learned along the way. We also talk about invisible disabilities and Hannah gives some great things for us to think about whether as a supporter/friend or a parent in the thick of parenting a kid from hard. Stay until the end because she gives us some resources that you are going to want to check out!

On today’s episode, Taffee shares how her family changed their mindset around foster parenting, and although they did adopt their four girls through the foster care system, Taffee talks about how they hold birth family relationships in a different light now. Taffee also shares the struggles of parenting kids from trauma, as well as the ways that they have learned to do new and better for their kids. She also gives us some good things to think about with how best to help our kids.

On today’s episode, Meaghan starts out by talking about how she became the “book lady”, or more commonly known as a Story Maker. We talk about books that can help with social/emotional development and mindfulness. Meaghan then shares about what led her and her husband into becoming foster parents, which ultimately led to adoption. We discuss adopting out of birth order, adopting from the foster care system, open adoptions and continued contact with birth families, including sibling connections. What an amazing start to National Adoption Month!

On today’s episode, Melissa interviews three of her children about Halloween. They talk about the likes and dislikes of Halloween, things to think about whether decorating your home or dressing up to trick or treat, and just plain fun! This is an episode that you might want to watch on YouTube because kids can just be extra entertaining! :)

On today’s episode, Melissa shares her story of surviving a domestic violence relationship. DV is so complicated and Melissa wants you all to hear her own story to get a better idea of how complicated it can be. It’s all about awareness! This is the final episode in the National Domestic Violence Awareness series for the month of October.

On today’s episode, Teresa talks about how she got into the field of therapy and where it has taken her. She shares her thoughts on trauma and how we can move towards a place of healing from the trauma we have experienced. Teresa focuses on somatic healing and gives us good things to think about in regards to healing the whole self. We also talk quite a bit about Domestic Violence and how to help ourselves or someone around us. Another good episode to bring more awareness to DV!