Did you feel like an expert when God called you to adopt or foster?I sure didn't. While we learn along the way, it's always helpful to have an experienced and expert voice to speak into tough topics like trauma, child development and mental health. In this episode I sat down with author and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Travis Thompson. Travis brings clinical expertise to today's conversation with extensive experience in addiction therapy, mental health and outpatient clinics with a family-centered focus. He and his wife have fostered kids from hard places and have a heart to see families say yes to the calling of foster care and adoption. Travis and I discuss attachment, how trauma affects development and behavior and what foster and adoptive parents can do to help a child heal and thrive. FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS: If you're working from an incorrect lens you are going to be addressing things that are not there or you are going to be missing things that are readily apparent.One of the most helpful things you can do is learn. One of the key components to successful parenting is self-regulation.God gives grace where you haven't learned yet Learn more from Travis at:https://www.travisthompsoncounseling.com/To Those Left Behind: Helping Partners and Families Understand and Heal from AddictionYES! Send me the BONUS EPISODE with Travis Thompson!