Jessica Smithers-Jones

Fostering Kingdoms | Faith at the Heart of Fostering | Support & CPD for UK Foster Carers

Religion EN ↓ 59 episodes

Fostering Kingdoms is a faith-based podcast walking alongside UK foster carers with encouragement, gentle guidance, and practical CPD support. Each episode nurtures emotional wellbeing, resilience, and sustainable fostering through a Kingdom lens. This space exists to strengthen your heart, your home, and your calling. Putting care back into the carers so you can continue on your journey as a foster carer and with God at the centre of it all.

Author

Jessica Smithers-Jones

Category

Religion

Podcast website

www.fosteringkingdoms.com

Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

Emotional Safet; the foundation for healaing 15.01.2026

Because without emotional safety, childrencan’t learn, trust, or heal and neither can we. Today’s episodeis about creating emotional safety in our homes, in ourselves, and in our relationships. For more information visit us at FosteringKingdoms.com

Rest, it's not optional 15.01.2026

In this episode we are reminded that rest is not optional, rest is not a luxury, but as essential parts of caring, and being able to care well. Rest doesn’t always been rest-bite either, it’s about creating pockets of rest in our daily routines. Rest can come in different shapes and forms, not just the ideal ‘weekend get away’ or ‘holiday’. They aren’t true rest, that’s escapism from our current r...

Creating Space: Boundaries, Decluttering, and Stewardship at Home 12.01.2026

Decluttering isn't about creating Instagram worthy picture perfect homes, it's about letting go of what no longer serves us. Join us on this episode and I share about the lived reality of living in clutter, how to it impacts us without being aware and some simple doable steps you can take today to begin feeling lighter. If you are ready to dive deeper into decluttering, we cover this in my...

Boundaries that Protect your calling 08.01.2026

Boundaries aren't to keep us cold and defensive, instead understand the power of true boundaries, because when you care deeply, give generously, and say yes often… the thing that usually breaks down first is you . We often get told to think about our boundaries for the children, but rarely we are told to think about our own personal boundaries, so join me in this episode as we talk about about...

Mum Guilt 07.01.2026

Mu guilt often comes from impossible standards, we feel this heavily when trying to balance our families, foster children and their families but also finding who we are in the middle of it all. You are more than a mum, foster mum, you are a woman with desires - that's okay, that's Gods design. For more information on Fostering Kingdoms visit our website.

Faith in the Ordinary 05.01.2026

Today’s episode is about this truth: God doesn’t wait for a better season to use us. He grows us right where we are. For more information you can find us at Fostering Kingdoms

Big, Bold Goals! 04.01.2026

Do you dare to dream? Do you dare to create something for yourself? Do you dare to be the change in your home? Join me as we taslk about what it's like to have Big, Bold Goals for 2026 https://www.fosteringkingdoms.com/

Vision for the year 04.01.2026

Soaking up time in January to be present with the Lord and seek his guidance on the future he has in store for you. God has a plan for you, it's time for you to move towards your goals, you are more than just the labels you have! https://www.fosteringkingdoms.com/

Word of the year 2026 04.01.2026

Join us as we begin 2026 Starting the year as we mean to go on, not with pressure but with a word we can anchor into for upcoming seasons we will find ourselves in.

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