Jodi Jackson Tucker: Beautiful Lessons Learned Through Adoption
Have you or someone you know been touched by adoption? Even if adoption is not part of your story directly, we have all experienced loss and the need for forgiveness. Jodi Jackson Tucker joins us to discuss Healing for Every Heart in Adoption, a book offering hope and restoration for those touched by adoption. Jodi and her co-authors share their unique experiences as a birth mother, adoptee and adoptive mother to offer three perspectives on healing needed by all members of the adoption story. We discuss some misconceptions about adoption and how Jesus provides comfort and restoration for those navigating loss and the complexities of adoption.
Jodi and her husband Jerry have eight children, five through adoption. She is the author of three books including Second Mother: A Bible Study Experience for Foster and Adoptive Moms, which is the first of its kind Bible study for foster and adoptive parents. Jodi is a seminary graduate and certified chaplain.
For information and support for second mothers or connect with Jodi: https://secondmothers.org/
For more information about TBRI (Attachment-based, trauma informed intervention), connected parenting or Lisa Qualls: https://www.lisacqualls.com/
Quotes:
“When we really commit to Jesus over everything (a book)…He just opens up our lives in such a beautiful way.”
“On any given day, there are over a hundred thousand children, in the US waiting to be adopted.”
“The human heart is a very amazing thing. Our hearts can always grow.”
“If you are a believer in Jesus, and if you follow His story, He gave us in His Word how to heal and how to overcome loss.”
“I saw all these stories, foster care and adoption leading to redemption in the Bible. And I think that’s really the journey for all of us.”
“When we allow ourselves to receive forgiveness from Jesus and sit in that and really receive it. Then we are able to give that away.”
“That’s the deepest part of our faith, right? That forgiveness and healing is available to us. And it’s available to children who come through foster care and adoption as well.”
