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 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Read Eve's Sub...
Jul 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 13
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May 21, 2025•46 min•Ep. 12
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 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...
May 12, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 11
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Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 10
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 Adopte...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 9
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...
Apr 08, 2025•45 min
Jessica-Leigh shares a story of family, connection, and surprises about her adoption. 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...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 8
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 Subs...
Apr 01, 2025•43 min
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Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 7
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 D...
Mar 19, 2025•55 min
Dana talks about the effects of her NPE-discovery on her marriage and family relationships. Dana's Tiktok: @worthitalls 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@everythingsr...
Mar 14, 2025•58 min•Ep. 6
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@e...
Mar 12, 2025•45 min
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 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack Buy the process journal ...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 5
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 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack Buy the process journal ...
Mar 04, 2025•34 min
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 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Su...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 4
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 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Read Eve's Substack (ie. BLOG): The Everything's Relative Podcast: The Substack Buy the process journal ...
Feb 25, 2025•29 min
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 ...
Feb 21, 2025•51 min•Ep. 3
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: h...
Feb 18, 2025•39 min
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. 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...
Feb 14, 2025•30 min•Ep. 2
Eve Sturges, host of Everything's Relative Podcast, launches a new series with her friend Sheridan Anderson. They talk about whatever they want, as long as it's related to the DNA-discovery experience in one way or another. This is a series that offers listeners and guests a more casual (less edited!) approach to the DNA-Discovery conversation. Eve invites any guest from previous seasons to return with updates about their own story, and will also allow other people to talk about their own books ...
Feb 11, 2025•32 min
Eve Sturges and Erin Cosentino talk about Everything's Relative Roadtrip, and what's in store for season 6. For new listeners, Welcome to Everything's Relative Podcast. Eve uses this platform to talk about DNA-discoveries and the growing phenomenon of misattributed parentage. Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore Register for Eve's Process Journal Therapeutic Writing Group: www.hiraethhopeandhealing.com Instagram: @everythingsrelativep...
Feb 07, 2025•51 min•Ep. 1
SUPPORT LAUREN'S FILM HERE: SEED & SPARK READ HER STORY HERE. Lauren is using her own story as a Donor Conceived Person to open up conversation about transparency, and the absurdity so many people in the DNA-discovery community face. Show Information Subscribe to Everything's Relative Substack for Roadtrip Dispatches! Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore Instagram: @everythingsrelativepodcast Twitter: ...
Sep 20, 2024•29 min•Ep. 1
*** Contribute To Seed & Spark Campaign *** every cent is going towards this ambitious project, and is greatly appreciated by Eve and her team. If you can't contribute, share it with friends! please and thank you. (the campaign ends July 1; Eve is going to barf from gratitude and humility.) SURPRISE! With Don Anderson and Lily Wood, Eve invited guests in their audience to participate in making a podcast together! Extra special thanks to all the brave vulnerable people who shared their stor...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Support The Everything's Relative Roadtrip Now! Moses Farrow works as an an adoption trauma educator, adoption activist, and licensed marriage and family therapist. He explains to Eve how and why he wants to raise the alarm about crimes being committed against adopted children. * CONTENT WARNING* Virtual Town Hall March 10 : register at AdopteeMurders.eventbrite.com Moses and Eve discuss the following cases: Jeong-In Arabella McCormack The Hart Family Leiland-James Corkill Orrin & Orson We...
Mar 01, 2024•57 min•Ep. 108
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 real details are for the book!" But I tried! I really did. I want to clarify now: the podcast is NOT over....
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 30
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 Who Even Am I Anymore Instagram: @everythingsrelativepodcast...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 29
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 Instagram: @everythingsrelativepodcast Facebook: ...
Oct 07, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 28
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 2024 Updates Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore Instagra...
Sep 30, 2023•47 min•Ep. 104
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 Facebook: @everythingsrelativepodcast Twitter: ...
Sep 23, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 27
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 to Everything's Relative Substack for 2024 Updates Buy the process journal Who Even Am I Anymore ...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 26
