NPE Stories
What if you found out your parent was not in fact your biological parent?
NPE Stories is a podcast where NPEs can share their story. What is an NPE? It is a term that stands for Not Parent Expected or Non Paternity Event. It is used for people who have found out the life changing news that their parent wasn’t their biological parent. Most likely through the advent of home DNA kits.
NPE Stories is a podcast where NPEs can share their story of what their original family was like. How they found out they were an NPE. And what their journey has been like since the day they found out.
These stories are here for us to listen to and nod along with. Be a part of the story telling. If you are an NPE that would like to share your story email [email protected]. You do not have to give any identifying information. I’d like to hear from you.
NPE Stories will be launching July 1st 2019. Come heal with us.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 223
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Eric's Story
Eric found out he was a donor conceived when a sibling messaged him through a DNA testing site. After processing his shock for several years he is now very involved in the donor conceived and BIPOC d…
Kara and Alesia's Story
Kara Rubinstein Deyerin and Alesia Weiss come on Episode 141 to share their NPE stories, talk about their service work at Right to Know, and also share about the upcoming summit in March 2023 called …
Liz's Story
Liz got a shocking message from an unknown half sister, who then deactivated her account before Liz could get more information. Liz shares the rest of her story and how she found out she was an NPE i…
Geoff's Story
Geoff found out he was an NPE after all his parents had passed. He now is beginning to understand why his mother worked on a women's right to choose in the state legislature, many years ago.
Geoff c…
Sarah M's Story
Sarah M grew up in a picture perfect household. As adults that picture began to change after she and her siblings discovered their mother had been lying about her age, leading them to suspect she was…
Bianca's Story
B…
Simone's Story
Simone found out she was an NPE in a shocking moment days after her dad died. She was left to process this alone and has since been able to find out more of her story and who her paternal biological …
Ryan's Story
Ryan is on a search for his biological family and has not had any success to date. He was abandoned at a Moroccan hospital as an infant and spent the first 18 years of his life not knowing he wasn't…
Jackie's Story
Jackie was told in anger by her mother that her dad wasn't her real father, and confirmed this through DNA testing. She has a beautiful relationship with all her siblings, but she does speak to the f…
Nichole's Story
Nichole never suspected she was an NPE, until her Grandmother raised suspicion when she shared alarming stories in a moment of grief. Turns out many in her family and community had to keep this secre…
Shelly's Story
Joy A's Story
Joy was made out to be the villain by her family members.
Resources:
NPEguide.com
The Lost Family by Libby Copeland
Podcasts:
Missing Pieces - NPE Life
Everything's Relative with Eve Sturges
The Secret in …
Holly's Story
Holly shares her NPE story in the first episode of Season 4 of the NPE Stories podcast.
Holly can be emailed directly at [email protected]
NPE Stories facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NPEstories
Maria's Story
Lisa (Maria) has gone through an awakening since finding out her uncle is her father, and her cousins are actually her siblings.
Lisa can be emailed directly at [email protected]
NPE Stories fac…
Robin's Story
"You can't be rejected by someone that doesn't know you."
Robin can be emailed directly at [email protected]
NPE Stories facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NPEstories
Peter's Story: Uprooted
Peter J. Boni, author of Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Articial Insemination, shares his story and dives into the shocking lack of regulation around donor con…
Don's Story
Podcast host Don Anderson, of Missing Pieces - NPE Life shares his NPE story for the first time.
Resources discussed:
Missing Pieces - NPE Life
Eve Sturges
Everything's Relative with Eve Sturges
Erin Cos…
Loren's Story
Loren had a parent-child match show up in her Ancestry DNA results that didn't make any sense.
Resources discussed:
Our Father
Netflix
Inheritance
Dani Shapiro
Severance
B.K. Jackson
NPE Stories facebook pa…
Stacey's Story
Stacey can be emailed directly at …
Susan O's Story
Susan found out she was donor conceived, and this was kept from her and her BCF. Her biological father is her mother's fertility doctor.
Hiraeth Hope and Healing Retreats for :
Adoptees, Donor Conceiv…