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Stranger in a Strange Land

Parichard Holm – Healing Through MovementBorn in Thailand and raised in Germany, Parichard Holm struggled with identity and belonging. Feelings of disconnection, anxiety, and panic shaped her early years as she searched for a sens...

March 10, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 5 • 28:13

From Russia With Love

Falsified birthdays, smuggled DNA tests, women’s prisons!  George Barbakadze and I discuss that uneasy floating feeling of pre-search life, the joys of a successful DNA result and anticipating a future of wrestling with identity iss...

December 06, 2024 • Season 2 • Episode 4 • 32:43

Granite State of Mind

When I asked New Hampshire-ite Greg Gentry how he was doing, he simply put down his musket, looked in the camera and said, "live free or die!"_______________________________________________________________________________________________...

March 17, 2024 • Season 2 • Episode 3 • 37:10

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Season 2 of Secret Son keeps rolling along and, based on last week's number, people like hearing about identity!Secrecy is so last season. But not really. It's all a jumble, as we know. _______________________________________...

March 06, 2024 • Season 2 • Episode 2 • 37:47

Life On Mars

After a winter hiatus, lots of St. John's Wort and extensive retooling, Secret Son returns for Season 2. ________________________________________________________________________________________________Join Ruth Monnig and I as w...

February 25, 2024 • Season 2 • Episode 1 • 40:36

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I appreciated Shane's articulation of the unseen journey which is often so hard to verbalize. Thank you for sharing and thanks for this podcast. All episodes I have listened to have been awesome and similar threads to my own adoption story in each one. Best wishes to you and all the participants.

Charlotte, North Carolina