Content Warning: This episode contains accounts of child abuse and violence.

Caroline was essentially an orphan at a young age and always felt ostracized by her sisters. Many of her family members knew the secret of her true paternity and participated in keeping this information from her. Caroline is still struggling with this betrayal as she starts to learn more about her biological father's side of the family.

Caroline can be reached on facebook at Caroline Sorg Vance Champion

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Bertrice took a DNA test to help a family member, and ended up finding a close family friend in her DNA matches. Since finding out she was an NPE during Covid to losing her husband this last year Bertrice's life has changed drastically. 

Bertrice chooses to remain anonymous but wanted to share her NPE story. 

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Nicole lost both her parents in a short period of time, and then after getting into genealogy to honor her father's passing, she found out she was an NPE in the worst way. Nicole went through a few therapists until she found one that she really resonated and felt safe with.

Nicole can be reached via email at [email protected]

Resources Mentioned:
DNA Painter

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Lauren LoGiudice is a comedian that identifies as a misfit, and is also a donor-conceived person with a couple hundred estimated siblings.

Lauren can be reached at laurenlogi.com
Lauren's Podcast Misfits Makin' It

Resources Mentioned:
Untangling Our Roots

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Shirley discovered through DNA tests that her entire biological family was different from the one she had known all her life, leading her to become a private detective so that she could uncover her true origins.
 

Shirley can be reached via email [email protected]
Instagram: shirleymunoznewson_author
Facebook: shirleymunoznewson.com

Resources Mentioned:
Untangling Our Roots
Don Anderson's Missing Pieces - NPE Life
The Little Dark One: A True Story of Switched at Birth by Shirley Munoz-Newson

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Shelly is part of a great little NPE community called the NoMi Girls who meet in Northern Michigan regularly.  She had a traumatic childhood and has put a lot of work into healing, including EMDR and support groups, but Shelly says this experience has changed her a lot.

Shelly can be reached via email [email protected]

Resources Mentioned:
Untangling Our Roots
Lauren LoGiudice
Don Anderson's Missing Pieces - NPE Life
Hiraeth Hope & Healing Retreats

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Kris took a DNA test along with many of her family members and saw that she did not have DNA in common with her birth certificate father. She hid her profile online and has chosen, at this point, not to discuss this with her dad.

Kris can be reached via email [email protected]

Resources Mentioned:
Untangling Our Roots Summit
High Conflict Institute
Hiraeth Hope & Healing
Eve Sturges

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This was a very long emotional episode that has been divided into 2 parts. This is part 2.

This was part of a panel held at the Untangling Our Roots Summit 2024 in Denver, CO. The panel was moderated by Don Anderson of Missing Pieces - NPE Life and featured Eve Sturges of Everything's Relative and Lily Wood of NPE Stories. Eve shared for 10 minutes on changing family narratives followed by others in the audience.  Then Lily shared for 10 minutes on Estrangement and Rejection followed by others in the audience.
Audience members who shared in Part 2:

1. Lora Alegria
2. Pam Collins
3. Alicia Williams
4. Kelly
5. Justin
6. Richard Wenzel
7. Diana
8. Denise
9. Unknown (Take us back to yesterday -poem)
10. Gigi

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This was a very long emotional episode that has been divided into 2 parts. This is part 1.

This was part of a panel held at the Untangling Our Roots Summit 2024 in Denver, CO. The panel was moderated by Don Anderson of Missing Pieces - NPE Life and featured Eve Sturges of Everything's Relative and Lily Wood of NPE Stories. Eve shared for 10 minutes on changing family narratives followed by others in the audience.  Then Lily shared for 10 minutes on Estrangement and Rejection followed by others in the audience.

Audience members who shared in Part 1:

1. Leif Whalen
2. Alicia Williams
3. Jenny
4. Amy
5. Terry Champion
6. Don Anderson
7. Dave Treadway
8. Amy  

 

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Margo discovered her NPE status when she purchased an Ancestry kit to kill a lifelong curiosity. She learned her younger brother was not the only NPE in the family and suddenly her chaotic childhood began to make sense.

Resources Mentioned:
When the Apple Falls Far from the Tree: Discovering the Gifts within the Chaos
by Margo Reilly

Upcoming Memoir due out summer 2024: When you Shake the Family Tree by Margo Reilly

Who Even Am I Anymore: A Process Journal by Eve Sturges

Jill Krzyzanowicz's website
justbeingjill.com

IG Handle @justbeingjill

Margo Reilly's Facebook page

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