Episode 12 - Mondays with Melissa
Mending Families is hosted by Melissa Pemberton and she brings you weekly content that is a mix of trauma aware interviews, parenting tips for those caring for kids from adversity, and stories from people just like you as they share their beautiful messy moments. Melissa hopes that when you listen each week, you will feel encouraged, inspired and take a little something away to help you and your family move from broken to mended.
On today’s episode, Melissa chats with you about ways that you can step into being a healthy support system to someone in your life who is either parenting kids who have experienced adversity, or IS a kid experiencing adversity. It only takes one adult in the life of a child to help them build resilience and that one adult could be you! Whether you are a parent, relative, teacher, coach, or Sunday School teacher, we all have kids in our lives who we can support and make a difference for.
Topics Melissa mentions:
Melissa loves to read and is always learning and growing. Here are some of her favorite books:
The Whole Brain Child by Dan Siegel
The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis
The Connected Parent by Karyn Purvis and Lisa Qualls
What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
Listening to podcasts is another way that Melissa continues to grow. Here are some of her faves:
Parenting After Trauma podcast with Robyn Gobbel
The Adoption Connection podcast with Lisa Qualls and Melissa Corkum
The Best of You podcast with Dr. Allison Cook
You also can go back and listen to episode #6 for a reminder of the 6 risk factors and how trauma can play a role in how the body develops.
Melissa mentioned that she learned the idea of “seeing, hearing and valuing” a child from The Halo Project out of Oklahoma City. You can also find all 6 of Cindy Lee’s children’s books HERE
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