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REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser | Hippocampus Magazine
REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser | Hippocampus Magazine
In the Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-Cult Experience, Blair Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashram.
Who Owns a Story? – Whale Road Review
Who Owns a Story? – Whale Road Review
Permission: The New Memoirist and The Courage to Create by Elissa AltmanGodine, 2025 If there’s one fact I’ve gleaned from every creative nonfiction workshop I’ve ever taken, as well as from countl…
Everyday Bravery
Everyday Bravery
Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure by Mimi ZiemanFalcon Guides, 2024 Even before readers turn the first page, they’ll understand that Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor…
Infinite Losses
Infinite Losses
Love in the Archives by Eileen Vorbach CollinsApprentice House Press, 2023 In Love in the Archives—an unforgettable collection of essays about living in the aftermath of a child’s death by suicide …
B.K. Jackson on Discovering Family Secrets
B.K. Jackson on Discovering Family Secrets
Read "Serendipity," B.K. Jackson's gripping new essay on how the search for her mother uncovered a whole new family
New York Times Tiny Love Story: My Father's Faltering Hand
New York Times Tiny Love Story: My Father's Faltering Hand
How Apps Help Manage Chronic Illness
How Apps Help Manage Chronic Illness
She Could Have (Scroll to fifth essay)
She Could Have (Scroll to fifth essay)
Every Mother's Day
Every Mother's Day
At the nursing home, my 93-year-old father lays curled in his bed and looks up at me, his deep dimples parentheses around his wide toothless smile. His memory is failing and he asks the same questions over and over, like this one: Who was your mother? It’s one he’s never been able to answer. It…
Huffington Post: A DNA Test Showed My Dad Wasn't My Father
Huffington Post: A DNA Test Showed My Dad Wasn't My Father
I didn’t really believe it was possible that my 90-year old dad wasn’t my father, but I asked him if he’d take a DNA test “just for fun.”
Dissociation
Dissociation
Secrets to the Grave
Secrets to the Grave
After A DNA Surprise: 10 Things No One Wants to Hear
After A DNA Surprise: 10 Things No One Wants to Hear
When a shocking DNA test result shows that you're an NPE (not parent expected) — that your father isn't your father — few understand.
Home DNA Tests
Home DNA Tests
1 in 5 Americans has spit in a tube and learned that their ancestors hailed from Greece or they have a cousin in Texas. But DNA tests can also dig up family secrets, such as an affair or insemination.
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Surprise! I'm Your Sister.
Surprise! I'm Your Sister.
Disenfranchised Grief: Mourning in the Shadows
Disenfranchised Grief: Mourning in the Shadows
Social Work Today: Treating Trauma in America's Refugees
Social Work Today: Treating Trauma in America's Refugees
Social Work Today: Understanding Traumatic Grief
Social Work Today: Understanding Traumatic Grief
Social Work Today
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A conversation with Jodi Klugman-Rabb and Christina Bryan Fitzgibbons on their Sex, Lies & The Truth podcast.
A conversation with Jodi Klugman-Rabb and Christina Bryan Fitzgibbons on their Sex, Lies & The Truth podcast.
Podcast Episode · Sex, Lies & The Truth · 06/24/2019 · 1h 4m
Talking about DNA Surprises on the CutOff Genes Podcast
Talking about DNA Surprises on the CutOff Genes Podcast
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Severance Magazine
Severance Magazine
Q&A with Meredith Resnick for Psychology Today
Q&A with Meredith Resnick for Psychology Today
Severance Contributors' Articles
An End. A Beginning. By Megan Culhane Galbraith
An End. A Beginning. By Megan Culhane Galbraith
Little Hole, by Dawn Davies
Little Hole, by Dawn Davies
The Emotional Life of Donor Conceived People
The Emotional Life of Donor Conceived People
Common Ground in Adoption Land
Common Ground in Adoption Land
What Makes a Family, by Jen Carraher
What Makes a Family, by Jen Carraher
The Butterfly Hug
The Butterfly Hug
Adoptees in Film
Adoptees in Film
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