Small Habits, Big Healing: Rachel Medefind on Hope for Families in Crisis

Rick Morton and Chelsea Sobolik welcome Rachel Medefind, who leads the Institute for Family Centered Healing and Health at the Christian Alliance for Orphans and is the author of When There Is Crisis. Rachel shares her story, from growing up as a missionary kid in the Philippines to building a family through birth, adoption, and foster care. She explains why healing and formation come through small, repeated habits, drawing on both Scripture and neuroscience. The conversation turns to spiritual encouragement for exhausted parents, trusting that God intends good in suffering, and why families in crisis should not pull away from the church. Rachel closes with a reminder that parents remain the most powerful presence in a child’s life, even when the fruit is slow to appear.