Everything's Relative with Eve Sturges

  Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Original publish date: October 24, 2023. Hi, Eve here. The goal of this episode was twofold: to finally tell my own DNA-discovery story, and to talk about season 6 and all the plans we have for 2024. I think I did an okay job, but I suspect you'll still be hungry for more details about my personal DNA-discovery. As Joy my editor put it, "the...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Peggie Arvidson, host of the podcast Adoptees At Work , talks about what adoption means to her identity, and what inspired this new project exploring the careers and dreams of adoptees. Folllow Peggie's Substack: ZenCareer Nation   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Rob talks about what the past year has been like for him since discovering that the daughter he's raising, who is still a young child, isn't biologically related to him. ORIGINAL PUBLISH DATE: 10/06/23   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Abby Hasberry of instagram account @D.E.A.R._Abby talks with Eve about coming into the adoption conversation with two penultimate experiences: she is a transracial domestic adoptee, and as a teenager she became a birth mother who relinquished a son. ORIGINAL PUBLISH DATE: 10/09/23   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ The oldest of 4 girls, Amy Jo talks about the relief, heartbreak, and fury of her DNA Discovery. original publish date: 09/22/23   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@everythingsrelativepodcast⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ episode 100!!!! Eve spends some time with Jack "Paul" Fronczak, who was the subject of CNN's recent documentary The Lost Sons , as well as the co-writer of The Foundling, and True Identity . TW: traumatic events, abuse   For more information about the case, and to contact Jack Fronczak: www.fronczakfiles.com   Show Information Subscribe t...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Michelle talks about her upscale Atlanta upbringing, her mother's anxiety, and what kind of truths unfolded before her when she took a mail-in DNA Test. (episode 99 of 100)   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Sheridan comes at her own DNA Discovery experience as a therapist who uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy with her clients. Sheridan is a licensed therapist in Minnesota.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Jennie talks about the secrets her family was hiding about donor conception. Subscribe and read Jennie's substack* about her journey here.   *A Substack is kind of like a blend of a newsletter and a blog!   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Rebecca Berg of No Strings Nutrition in Los Angeles California, talks about how coming out of the adoption fog has informed her work as a licensed dietician. Find Rebecca on instagram @no.strings.nutrition   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymor...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Kristin talks about how isolated she feels, even within the Misattributed Parental Event community because of the strife she's experienced from her DNA discovery.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Meg Thomas, host of Emotional Expedition Podcast , talks with Eve about learning she was a Donor Conceived Person, which has had a major impact on her personal fertility journey and her work as a fertility coach.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Jill, AKA Margo Reilly, talks about how her mom was telling the truth all those years ago. Jill is the author of When The Apple Falls Far From The Tree, and is now working on a second memoir that focuses on her DNA Discovery. She works as an empowerment coach; find more about her at www.justbeingjill.com   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Rebecca Autumn Sansom, relinquished at birth for adoption, created the powerful documentary, Reckoning With The Primal Wound about reunion with her own birth mother, and an exploration of the seminal adoption book The Primal Wound, by Nancy Verrier.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process jo...

  NOTE: the wikipedia page of another former sheriff of Las Vegas, Ralph Lamb, uses this episode to incorrectly report that Caroline is his daughter. She does not claim be related to the Lamb family in any way, nor am I suggesting this by categorizing her biological father as "the man who ran Las Vegas." Caroline talks with Eve about her DNA surprise, The Stardust Casino in Las Vegas, an...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Freya Lyon finds herself a rare bird: she is a Donor Conceived Person who has also used Donor Conception to create her own family. She is finding her voice as a "dual citizen," and offers insight from her own experiences through various channels in the community. Follow her on instagram: @unicornDCP   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Rela...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Ivan is a longtime listener of ERWES, and is ready to tell his side of the story as a BCF (birth-certificate father) to an NPE.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@everythingsrelativepodcast⁠⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Lezlee Liljenberg is a firecracker storyteller in Dallas Texas who started investigating when her dad kept saying "If you only knew what your mother has done." She's blogged about her journey at iamlezlee.com   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Any...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Genealogist Cairelle Crow is the first person Eve has ever talked to who offered an alternative to the strictly scientific way of looking at our family tree. The Magic In Your Genes, Your Personal Path to Ancestor Work (Bringing Together the Science of DNA with the Timeless Power of Ritual and Spellcraft) is available now on Amazon.   Show Informat...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Kiara Rae Schuh talks with Eve about about her DNA Discovery journey, learning that not everyone feels the same way about being donor conceived, and navigating a plethora of new relationship dynamics. For more information, visit https://www.kiararaeschuh.com , and to buy her book at Amazon, link here .   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's R...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Note: Read more about Dr. Morris Wortman, and his unexpected death here. Blogger and advocate David Berry talks about his DNA Discovery as a Donor Conceived Person, and the way he was thrust into the world of Fertility Fraud. Like Eve Wiley, David Berry is hoping for the passage of HR 451, a federal law designed to protect families from Fertility F...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Emma Stevens discusses her identity as an adoptee, and her journey to find her relatives and the truth. To buy The Gathering Place, about Emma's adoption journey, follow this link here.   For a copy of A Fire Is Coming , click this link here.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Fred Nicora was just minding his own business at a family BBQ one minute, and experiencing the annihilation of his identity the next minute. His DNA discovery is what we call "LDA," Late-Discovery Adoption. His journey is one that many in the community of Misattributed Parentage will relate to. Go to frednicora.com to order Fred's book, Forbidden R...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Annette Becklund and Eve explore her NPE DNA Discovery, how she came to write a book, and how it's affected her role as a licensed therapist. Buy Anette's Book here.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! ⁠ Tonnocus McClain is still navigating the awkward and difficult world of meeting new family after his DNA test results confirmed what he already suspected: Kenny is not his biological father.   Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack   for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Who Even Am I Anymore ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...