Choices
Choices is a House of Providence podcast where trauma and truth collide. Hosted by Maggie Dunn and Karemmy Schinzing, this show offers honest, hope-filled conversations for parents, caregivers, foster and adoptive families, and helping professionals walking with children through trauma. With clinical insight, lived experience, and family-centered support, Choices helps listeners face hard realities with clarity, compassion, and hope.
Episodes
8 episodes
Bonus: Live Q&A from Parent Connect Night (Season 1 Finale)
To close out Season 1, we took the Choices mic on the road. This bonus episode was recorded live at Connect Night, an evening for foster and adoptive parents, where families brought their most pressing questions straight to Maggie Dunn.S...
Part 3: Cheap Imitations
You can do everything right to build attachment and still watch it quietly come undone. In this final part, Maggie and Karemmy name the three things that sneak in and tear down the connection you're working so hard to build.In Episode 6 ...
Part 2: Can't Versus Won't
You can't force a child to attach to you. But you can build the kind of safe, steady relationship where attachment becomes possible, and you can guard it from the things that quietly work against it.In Episode 5 of Choices, Maggie and Ka...
Part 1: Structure Is Not Control
When a child has experienced trauma, structure can help them feel safe. But structure and control are not the same thing.In Episode 4 of Choices, Maggie and Karemmy begin unpacking the pillars of attachment repair, starting with...
I Am Not Broken
In Episode 3 of Choices, Nicole Mitchell’s story begins in survival mode: instability, addiction, foster care, abuse, and years of believing there was no good life available to her. But her story does not end there.Nicole shares how hea...
All Feelings Are Welcome. Not All Behaviors Are
In Episode 2 of Choices, Karemmy and Maggie unpack two foundational words for understanding children who have experienced severe trauma: trauma and attachment.Together, they talk about what trauma is, how it can shape a person’...
Why Choices?
In the first episode of Choices, hosts Maggie Dunn and Karemmy Schinzing introduce the heart behind the podcast and the work of House of Providence. Together, they begin unpacking what it means to hold trauma and truth in the same conv...
Trailer: Introducing the Choices Podcast
Welcome to Choices, a podcast from House of Providence where trauma and truth collide.In this trailer, you will be introduced to the heart behind the podcast and the honest conversations to come around trauma, foster care, fami...
