Healing Hearts: Parenting with Purpose-Support for Resilient Families, Support for Parents, Childhood Trauma Advocacy

About Healing Hearts: Parenting with Purpose-Support for Resilient Families, Support for Parents, Childhood Trauma Advocacy

A podcast for parents raising children through hard seasons. If you’re a parent raising a child through hard seasons, you’re in the right place. Steady Ground Parenting is Speak Up for Kids’ parenting podcast, equipping foster, adoptive, kinship, and trauma-aware parents with practical tools to help children impacted by foster care, childhood trauma, and family disruption heal, grow, and thrive. Children who have lived through abuse, neglect, foster care, or family disruption often experience the world differently. Traditional parenting approaches don’t always meet their needs. Each episode offers practical strategies, expert insights, and honest conversations. Steady Ground Parenting helps you better understand behavior; strengthen connection; navigate attachment, emotional regulation, and challenging behaviors; and parent with greater confidence and compassion. Whether you’re a foster parent, adoptive parent, kinship caregiver, or a parent seeking trauma-informed parenting strategies, you’ll gain practical tools you can begin using right away. Every episode is designed to help you look beyond the behavior, build trust, and create safe, steady relationships where healing can happen. Hosted by Speak Up for Kids and driven by student leaders, this podcast extends our mission of mitigating trauma and cultivating self-worth in the lives of children impacted by foster care. Find more information about our mission at impact at https://speakupforkidspbc.org (https://speakupforkidspbc.org). Find us on social media: Facebook: Speak Up For Kids (https://www.facebook.com/SpeakUpForKidsofPBC)Instagram: @speakupforkidspbc (https://www.instagram.com/speakupforkidspbc/)TikTok: @speakupforkids (https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforkids)YouTube: @speakupforkidspbc2586 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXEW0Jq_M6GHwWlNo9aZDzw/featured) If you are interested in joining us on the podcast, please email inquiries to parents@speakupforkidspbc.org.

Publisher

Parents Speak Up for Kids

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Oct 2021

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 104 episodes have a transcript.

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   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to support your autistic child, even when it’s tough | Dr. Jonathan Chism

   Dr. Jonathan Chism shares insights on supporting autistic children through challenging behaviors, emphasizing the importance of listening to autistic voices.

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   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to respond when your teenager says “I don’t care” | Groundwork

   Host [Host Name] explores how to uncover underlying emotions when teenagers express indifference, offering insights into empathetic communication.

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   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Every child needs someone who won’t walk away | Trish Zenczak & Maddie Harris

   Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be the steady ground a child needs when life gets hard? After nearly five years of Healing Hearts, we're beginning a new chapter as Steady Ground Parenting—a podcast for parents raising children through hard seasons. But this rebrand goes beyond a new name. Rooted in the same belief that drives Speak Up For Kids, it's a deeper reflection of the work we've been doing all along: helping children and families impacted by foster care, trauma, adoption, and fa...

Inside a recent episode

How to support your autistic child, even when it’s tough | Dr. Jonathan Chism

Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, yeah. The community helps overcome the isolation. And I tell dads and moms on the journey that you have to take it one day at a time. And amidst trying to support your child, it's important that you support yourself and that you recognize that you matter too. And that you strive to build that community of dads that can give you encouragement as you're going along the journey and that you take time for yourself. Respite. So, for example, last Saturday, a couple of days ago, we went to Dave and Buster's and ate some food. wonderful food and shot some pool and just took some time to step away from the hustle and bustle of work and parenting and rejuvenate. […]

Who has been a guest on Healing Hearts: Parenting with Purpose-Support for Resilient Families, Support for Parents, Childhood Trauma Advocacy

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jonathan Chism
• Veronica Moya
• Paul McBride
• Crystal Luk-Worall
• Thomas LoBianco

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

39 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

88

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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Books guests

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