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With heart and humor, Eve Sturges explores the modern landscape of DNA testing after a single phone call turns her world upside down. By talking with others who have had “DNA discoveries,” Eve hopes to change the conversation around secrets, shame, family, and identity.
Copyright: © Eve Sturges
Eve and Sheridan and Don go on a roller coaster conversation that includes California fast food chains, the shame-struggle of NPEs, Don's secret trip to Ukraine, Field of Dreams, and Sheridan's metaphor obsession. Remember: your healing is an iphone. Warning: dark humor, and a few swear words.
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Dana talks about the effects of her NPE-discovery on her marriage and family relationships.
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Lorah Gerald, or "the adopted chameleon," learned to process her experiences and trauma with movement. Now she shares her methods with fellow adopted people, NPEs, or anyone who feels pain in their heart. Lorah ALSO has a special "knowing," so Eve touches base with about a tarot reading they experienced together in summer of 2023.
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A lot of people in the DNA-surprise community relate to the strange sequence of events that lead us to a discovery: If only Kay's cousin wasn't adopted... if Kay's mother hadn't fallen down... if there wasn't an appointment to cancel... if there hadn't been that text message...
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The real question is: How do we know Sheridan is NOT a time-traveler?
Shows, Books, Music mentioned:
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
Dave Matthews Band, "dancing nancies"
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Eve's guest always knew he was adopted, but the story he was told doesn't match up when a half-sister contacts him through ancestryDNA. Stranger still is the award-winning play he wrote in graduate school, "The House of Several Stories." The House of Several Stories by A. John Boulanger is available at Concord Theatricals
content warning: sexual assault, family separation
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Eve and Sheridan talk about the pressure to find things in common with newly discovered family members, and whether or not it's a good idea to contact them right away, or wait. Sheridan waited...20 minutes.
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Eve talks with Margo about the experience of writing her second book When You Shake The Family Tree. Topics Discussed: DNA-Discovery, Expectations, Sobriety, Therapy. (Also discussed: babies, and the Los Angeles fires.)
After 25 years in public education, Margo has decided to use her masters degree and teaching experience to become a personal empowerment mentor. Her first memoir published in 2022, entitled “When the Apple Fall Far from the Tree,” outlines a lifetime of adversity and the tools she used to make it to the other side.
From growing up chaotic in a house of violence, to cancer recovery, weight loss surgery, a newly sober lifestyle, and a spiritual awakening- Margo feels compelled to share the “gifts” she has discovered along her path of personal growth.
She is the creator of the blog site, justbeingjill.com where you can learn more about the birth of her pen name, Margo Reilly. Margo has recently completed a life coach course and soon hopes to be assisting others with their own transformational journeys.
Her sequel memoir, When You Shake the Family Tree, launched in December 2024. In her latest work, she details her journey of self-acceptance and healing after learning she was not exactly who she thought she was after taking an Ancestry DNA test.
She is eager to share how she navigated her identity crisis in hopes of inspiring others to find their way forward.
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Jessica Pearson came out of the fog as an adopted person, and wants to help other adoptees improve their lives. She's a life coach, so Eve uses the episode as an opportunity to discuss the basic differences between life-coaching and therapy.
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Last summer, Eve took her family in a van for the Everything's Relative Roadtrip. First stop: Strathmore. Jason and Miguel: Like Father, Like Son is a personal favorite; Eve wanted to see Miguel again, this time on his own home turf.
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