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Adopting an Older Child with TEDx Speaker Hilary Crowley
- Podcast
- From Foster to Forever
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- Dec 16, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 3572
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Summary
In this powerful and heart-opening conversation, I sit down with Hilary Crowley — foster-to-adopt mom, holistic health practitioner, energy healer, TEDx speaker, and author of The Power of Energy Medicine . Hilary shares the extraordinary story of how she followed intuition, courage, and connection all the way to her son — and the unexpected lessons she learned along the way. From discovering the importance of foster-care support groups before certification, to navigating shutdowns, attachment, sibling dynamics, and biological family relationships, Hilary offers deep insight into what it really means to love, advocate, and parent a child who has survived instability and trauma. We also explore the intersection of intuition and fostering, how to recognize an intuitive “yes,” and why older-child adoption is a powerful — and often overlooked — pathway to building a family. This episode is full of wisdom, warmth, and practical guidance for anyone considering fostering or adoption, anyone parenting a child with trauma, or anyone wanting to better understand the emotional landscape of the foster-to-adopt journey. In This Episode, We Discuss: ✨ The Power of Support Groups: Why attending a foster-care support group before certification can completely shift your journey. How Hilary built trust with resource workers just by showing up. ✨ The Foster-to-Adopt Origin Story Hilary’s longing for a second child and the friend who unexpectedly opened the door to fostering. Her first experiences learning the “lingo” and navigating parenting classes. ✨ A Moment of Raw Honesty in Training Hilary’s emotional fear response during training — and the life-changing validation she received from a social worker. ✨ Navigating the Needs of Two Children How fostering disrupted her biological son’s…