Starting Seeds Show Notes: Episode 3 – Dr. Caitlin Collier (on caring for people, plants, children, and gummy bears)
In our second interview, meet Dr. Caitlin Collier. Caitlin is a Family Medicine doctor in South Carolina, raising two boys that she adopted after bringing them home as a foster parent.
Caitlin’s interview was delightful to me personally because Caitlin has always been a warm, humble, thoughtful person who doesn’t take herself too seriously, who has always been constantly doing the hard work of caring for others. Specifically, Caitlin is now a M.D. who is now not only exemplifying those characteristics while taking care of her patients, but also teaching other soon-to-be-doctors how to care for those around us with empathy, intention, and joy.
Join us as we also talk a good bit about fostering, adopting, and the grief that comes with deciding what is important and how we’re going to make that important thing happen — especially in a world where we’re told by social media, our communities, and our own desires that we can have it all. What if we actually can’t, and how do we cope?
Resources mentioned:
- Childhood ACES Study overview (If this interests you but you’re just getting started on learning about trauma and how to heal, I recommend What Happened to You, linked below!)
- Books by Karyn Purvis on Goodreads
- Parenting the Hurt Child on Goodreads
- Adopting the Hurt Child on Goodreads
- Resilient Middle Georgia
- Parenting from the Inside Out
Resources not mentioned:
- What Happened To You on Goodreads
- What Happened To You audiobook on Hoopla (Hoopla is a free app sponsored by public libraries in the US — you can borrow audiobooks, ebooks, movies, comics, and more!)
Download the transcript below.
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