this upside down life

I am often asked what someone can do to support our family as we foster. When I started this blog, a few people asked me to write a post describing ways to support a foster family.  I chewed on that idea for a while, but I couldn’t come up with anything that I felt was really compelling.   I realize that many people might feel awkward asking a foster family what they need, or perhaps they don’t realize how many needs…

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The term “self-care” is one of those trendy concepts that has become widely overused in most corners of the internet.  In fact, I would venture to say that it has been promoted out of context and is now synonymous for “do whatever makes you feel good”.  A term that was meant to encourage mental, physical, and emotional health is now a throw away term with an elastic meaning. Social media tells us to indulge and drown our sorrows all in…

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