Episode 3 - Cassie Day
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.
Melissa and Cassie met in 2015 through mutual friends and are now neighbors and besties for life! Cassie is a real estate agent, former foster mom, certified yoga instructor, true crime enthusiast and the mom of three kids, through birth and adoption. I have had the honor of being on the sidelines as Cassie has walked through her own journey of healing, as well as taken big steps to make sure she was (and still is) parenting in a way that would promote healing for her kids as well. Cassie is not afraid to ask for help, search out resources for her family, and, because she is a 6w5 on the enneagram, deep dive into the most obscure topics.
On today’s episode, Cassie takes us through what led her family to do foster care and how that ultimately led her to realize that she needed to work on her own personal growth and healing. Cassie has great insight and advice for those considering foster care while also sharing some of the resources she has found helpful both for herself and her kids. This episode is jam packed with so many topics from foster care to EMDR Therapy to yoga with your kids! Enjoy!
If you are interested in listening to Cassie’s podcast, Agents Unfiltered, you can find them on Instagram, TikTok and listen HERE
Topics Cassie mentions:
*Books - The Body Keeps the Score can be purchased HERE
Daring Greatly can be purchased HERE
The Gifts of Imperfections can be purchased HERE
*You can learn more about Trust Based Relational Interventions from Melissa (she is a TBRI Practitioner), at the TBRI website child.tcu.edu or listen to the TBRI Podcast HERE
*All things Brene Brown (and if you know her personally and can coordinate an introduction to Cassie, she would love that!) at https://brenebrown.com/
Where to find Mending Families:
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YouTube - @mendingfamilies1594
https://www.mendingfamilieswa.com