Religion & Spirituality
We're talking about surprise DNA results in this week’s episode of Sacred Psychology! Meet Jody, a therapist leading the in finding healing for individuals who come face to face with complicated origin stories if you will. Hear her personal journey through her own lineage lies and how she was able to make lemonade out of some sour fruit. In this podversation: 2:35 - Getting to know Jody 3:57 - EMDR - what the heck is it?! 6:17 - 23andme rocked her world… and not in the way she expected. 13:09 - He lives 40 minutes away?! 15:33 - Meeting her dad 17:20 - So, fill me in Dad. How could this happen 19:55 - Saying goodbye, saying hello. 22:20 - Grief, EMDR, and getting to know The New ‘Me’. 24:25 - Making lemonade 28:40 - The spectrum of NPEs 30:06 - The podcast: Sex, Lies and The Truth 34:20 - Don’t whole-d back. 39:25 - Your mess becomes your message 41:41 - Family matters… Meet Jodi Klugman-Rabb Jodi is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California who discovered she was an NPE after taking a Commerical dna test. Discovering her father was not her biological father rocked her sense of identity and inspired her to use the experience to help others navigate the grief and family dynamics. She hosts her own podcast on the subject (Sex, Lies & The Truth) and writes a blog on Psychology Today to help others find their voice in the NPE topic (Finding Family: A Modern Guide to Family with Parental Identity Discovery and Non-Paternal Events)