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Everything's Relative with Eve Sturges
Everything's Relative with Eve Sturges
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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.
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.
133 Episodes
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Eve and Kara express their frustration about the New Yorker's recent piece, "The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises."
Right To Know
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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Eve, Sheridan, and Don got together to talk about My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay.
SPOILER ALERTS!!!! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT "MY MOM JAYNE."
Now available on HBO MAX, My Mom Jayne follows Mariska as she explores her own family relationships, which uncovers family secrets. SPOILERS ABOUND.
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Sheridan's episode on Terrible Thanks For Asking podcast
Don Anderson'sMissing Pieces: NPE Life
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA Discovery Community
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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Close-to-the-last episode of Season 6, and Eve keeps finding wild synchronicities with her guests. Jarissa talks about all the ways she felt, and choices she made about confronting her parents, when her DNA-test results came back looking funny.
follow Jariss on tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jarissaaa
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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For more of Eve's writing about the Road Trip: The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Subscribe to the podcast: Apple Podcasts
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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Eve and Liz Debetta have a lot in common, least of all their undergraduate degrees in theater. Liz's work within the adoption community as a writer and performer has been instrumental in motivating new ways to talk about, and look at, adoption culture. Her talk with Eve unwittingly inspires some decisions about the future of the podcast.
Dr. Liz Debetta's Website: https://www.lizdebetta.com/home
About Un-M-Othered: https://www.lizdebetta.com/unmothered
Find Migrating Towards Wholeness for Adopted Persons
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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What is up with movies that include DNA-Discoveries?! Eve and Sheridan discuss Netflix's hit romcom "the Life List." THIS PODCAST EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS FOR THIS MOVIE.
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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Jessica-Leigh shares a story of family, connection, and surprises about her adoption.
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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Two mom's (Eve Sturges and Lily Wood) talk about the thrilling tasks of everyday life. A riveting episode full of surprise and intrigue. Special thanks to Lily Wood for always being a champ when Eve has new ideas.
Listen to Lily's Podcast, NPE Stories
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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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.
Support Don's secret trip to Ukraine which is definitely not a spy mission: https://www.ianice.org/
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
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Listen to Don's Podcast: Missing Pieces, NPE Life
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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Dana talks about the effects of her NPE-discovery on her marriage and family relationships.
Dana's Tiktok: @worthitalls
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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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.
pronounced "Le-Ray"
Find Lorah Gerald: https://lorahgerald.com/
See Lorah's Tiktok, @theadoptedchameleon
Learn more about Adoptees Connect
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts
Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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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...
Find Kay on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@panicatthegenepool
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats for the DNA-Discovery & Adoptee Community
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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"
Kaleidoscope on Netflix
Severance on AppleTV
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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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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Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
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Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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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.
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Contact Sheridan at Sliding Doors Counseling
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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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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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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
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Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
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Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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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.
Jessica Pearson's Info:
email youradopteecoach@gmail.com
Jessica's tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theadopteecoach (please note: at the time of this episode's publication, tiktok still exists in the U.S.A. but faces an uncertain future.)
Jessica's Website: https://theadopteecoach.my.canva.site/
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Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
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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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Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack
Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore
Register for Eve's Process Journal Writing Workshop
Instagram @everythingsrelativepodcast
Email eve@everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Website www.everythingsrelativepodcast.com
Spotify Playlist 100 Songs for 100 Episodes!
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats www.hiraethhopeandhealing.com
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This is the closest story to my own that I’ve found. I can’t thank you and Laurie enough for bringing it to the light.