Ep 30: The Daughters of Dr. T — a summer update
Advice from Mom
English - July 25, 2018 07:05 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsHealth & Fitness health entrepreneur business science comedy interview entrepreneurship culture leadership fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What ever happened with Rebecca and her newly-discovered half-sister from Episode 23? Listen here, because we’re coming out of summer-mode to give you the update and Rebecca is playing the PhDC -- AKA the Psychologist’s Daughter’s Card. In this episode, Rebecca tells her mom everything that has happened and gets her advice on how to deal with this evolving personal narrative that has thoroughly rattled her sense of self.
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GOODIE BAG OF HELPFUL LINKS
Resources for adoptees and other biological discoverers
"Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption Issues" — An anthology edited by Laura Dennis: https://www.amazon.com/Adoption-Therapy-Perspectives-Clinicians-Post-Adoption-ebook/dp/B00N2A6HJI
"The Primal Wound and Coming Home to Self" by Nancy Verrier: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Home-Self-Nancy-Verrier/dp/1905664818
"Lost And Found: The Adoption Experience" by Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Found-Betty-Jean-Lifton/dp/047203328X
"For the Records: Restoring a Right to Adult Adoptees" by Marilyn Freundlich, The Evan B. Donaldson Institute: https://www.adoptioninstitute.org/publications/for-the-records-restoring-a-right-to-adult-adoptees/
If DNA-related stories are interesting to you, there is sooo many out there these days!
On Death, Sex, Money with our favorite, Anna Sale: “Sharing DNA, and Nothing Else”: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/amy-dna-death-sex-money/
In The Atlantic: “When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/dna-test-misattributed-paternity/562928/
An oldie, but a goodie (and kinda insanely close to our story—at least the first half):
RadioLab: Sperm: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/91646-sperm/
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