Apr 14

Encore: S02 Ep 6 - Carol and Michelle’s Mother-Daughter Conflict

Hey, Fellow Travelers. This week we’re in a mother-daughter couples session with Carol and Michelle, who have a long history of tension in their relationship. We help them explore the deeper issues underlying Carol’s sense of having done her best for her daughter despite sufferin ... Show More

1h 4m

Apr 7

Encore: S02 Ep 5 - Nicole’s Family Divorce

Hey, Fellow Travelers. This week we’re in session with Nicole, whose parents are getting divorced after nearly 40 years of marriage and is surprised to find that she has a lot of feelings about this, despite being an adult with a husband and kids of her own. We help her to see th ... Show More

56m 54s

Mar 31

Encore: S02 Ep 4 - What We’ve Learned about Love

Hey Fellow Travelers. This week we’re checking in with Shrina, Priscilla, Allison, and Jeff from Season 1 to find out what’s happened in their lives since their sessions with us last year, how they’ve been dealing with the issues we discussed, and the unexpected ripple-effects of ... Show More

43m 27s

Mar 2019

Family Secrets

“I've been kind of a student of family secrets all my life,” writer Dani Shapiro says. All of her novels have centered around family secrets, and her memoirs have explored secrets in her own family history, some of which she didn’t know existed—until she took a DNA test on a whim ... Show More

51m 37s

Dec 2021

Nom du Père

Sherry Turkle grows up surrounded by mysteries—her own identity included. Her mother is full of unknowns, especially when it comes to her relationship with Sherry’s elusive and absent scientist father…whose science experiments were nothing short of unsettling. Lear ... Show More

45m 39s

Sep 2021

The Girl with the “S” Tattoo

On October 5th, 1980, Detective John Williams responds to the scene where a young woman has been found, raped, murdered, and discarded on the side of a remote Nevada road. Investigators have no clue to her identity. With no leads and very little evidence, the case goes cold for 3 ... Show More

32 m

Nov 2022

Caring for Aging Parents

Liz O’Donnell is an author and the founder of Working Daughter, a community for women navigating eldercare, career, family, relationships, and everything else in life. She joins cohost Erica Chidi to talk about being part of the sandwich generation that is caring for aging parent ... Show More

29m 36s

Oct 2016

Melinda and Judy

When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under suspicious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her own, she tried to learn something about her biological parents. And when she went to the county courthouse and asked to see a copy of ... Show More

26m 57s

Feb 2019

Inheritance

Author Dani Shapiro reveals what it was like to, by chance, discover a shocking secret about herself, and what this secret taught her about identity, family, and new beginnings. Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">http ... Show More

15m 42s

Sep 2021

EP65: A Father's Note to His "Timeless" Daughter, The Corrupt City Council, and A Father's Secret

On this episode of Our American Stories, talk radio host Jeff Katz shares a note that his daughter won't ever read, but will surely impact your life for the better; Erica Brewer shares how the city council of her own community worked to silence her; and Skip Reeves tells the stor ... Show More

38m 17s

Sep 2023

Abandoned by a Narcissistic Father with Dr. Lily Dunn

Brilliant author Dr. Lily Dunn was just six years old when her father abandoned her family to join the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult featured in Netflix’s Wild, Wild Country. In this powerful episode, Lily reveals how her father’s narcissistic behavior deeply impacted her life. Wat ... Show More

1h 8m

Aug 2020

Do We Inherit Trauma?

Mark Wolynn is the director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. The focus of his work is healing trauma. Wolynn believes that the traumas of our parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents can live on in us—particularly if they are unresolved. If you’re ... Show More

49m 52s

May 2021

Fainting Goat Syndrome

Nicole Georges never knew her father. From the time she was little, she was told he died when she was just an infant—of colon cancer, her mom said. But after getting a strange palm reading in her early 20s, Nicole realizes there may be more to the story. Not knowing how to app ... Show More

49m 56s

Encore: Ep. 6 - Kristine's DNA Bombshell