Born For This Stories
Dr. Johanna & Peter Hartley
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S2E22 The Dad Perspective: Navigating Medical Decisions, Surgery, and Fatherhood in Medical Parenting
What does medical parenting feel like from a father's perspective? In this solo episode of Born For This Stories, Johanna turns the microphone toward Peter to explore a side of medical parenting that…
S2E21 Christy's Story: Esophageal Atresia, NICU Journey, and Healing Through Functional Pediatrics
What happens when you know something isn't right — but you keep being told everything is fine? In this episode of Born For This Stories, Johanna and Peter sit down with Christy, a mom of three,…
S2E20 How to Support Medical Parents: The STAY Model for Friends, Family, and Caregivers
What do medical parents actually need from the people around them? When a child receives a diagnosis, faces surgery, or navigates ongoing medical care, friends and family often want to help — but…
S2E19 Katherine's Story: Healing, Holistic Parenting, and Navigating Medical Decisions for Your Child
What happens when the traditional medical path doesn't feel like the only answer — or the right one for your child? In this episode of Born For This Stories, Johanna and Peter sit down with Katherine…
S1E18 Lindsay's Story: Navigating EEC Syndrome, Rare Genetic Diagnosis, and 16+ Surgeries
A rare genetic diagnosis during pregnancy. A cleft lip and palate. Limb differences. Missing teeth. Chronic infections. Sixteen surgeries — and counting. In this episode of Born For This Stories, we…
S2E17 The Common Threads All Medical Parent Share
Different diagnoses. Different surgeries. Different waiting rooms. And yet — the same questions whispered in the dark. In this solo episode, hosts Johanna and Peter step back from guest interviews to…
S2E16 Kari & Ali (Part 2): Building the Limb Difference Collective and Parenting Children with Limb Differences
What happens after the diagnosis? After the shock fades? After the appointments end and the real work of parenting begins? In Part Two of Kari and Ali's story, we move from isolation to action. This…
S2E15 Kari & Ali's Story (Part 1): Limb Differences, Diagnosis, and Finding Community
Some diagnoses are discovered before birth. Others arrive as a surprise in the delivery room. Both can leave parents searching for answers they were never given. In this episode of Born For This…
S2E14 Regina's Story: DeGeorge Syndrome, Congenital Heart Disease, and Fierce Maternal Advocacy
There is a moment in many parents' lives when everything shifts — often quietly, in a doctor's office or an ultrasound room. In this episode of Born For This Stories, Johanna and Peter sit down with…
S2E13 Marcia's Story: Advocacy, Identity, and Raising a Child With Complex Needs
Some parenting journeys reshape not only how you care for your child, but how you see the world. In this episode of Born For This Stories, Johanna and Peter sit down with Marcia, a mother whose…
S2E12 Mariangel's Story: Clubfoot, Community, and Creating What Was Missing
Some diagnoses arrive quietly, but they change everything. In this episode of Born For This Stories, Johanna and Peter sit down with Mariangel, a Venezuelan-Canadian mother of two whose daughter was…
S2E11 Rebecca's Story (Part 3): Healing Juvenile Arthritis Through Gut Health, Diet, and Community Support
Healing doesn't always look the way we expect, and it rarely happens all at once. In the final part of Rebecca's three-part story, we explore what long-term healing looked like after stepping fully…
S2E10 Rebecca's Story (Part 2): Choosing a Different Path After Juvenile Arthritis
When the standard treatment plan doesn't feel right, what happens next? In Part 2 of Rebecca's three-part story, we continue her family's journey after her daughter's devastating diagnosis of severe…
S2E9 Rebecca's Story (Part 1): When Juvenile Arthritis Hides in Plain Sight
What if your child looks healthy, happy, and pain-free, but their body is quietly fighting a war you can't see? In Part 1 of this three-part series, Johanna and Peter sit down with Rebecca Hunter,…
S2E8 Dr. Kim Tran's Story (Part 2): Healing Eczema From the Inside Out
What if healing your child doesn't mean doing more, but understanding why their body is responding the way it is? In the second part of Dr. Kim Tran's story, Johanna and Peter continue the…
S2E7 Dr. Kim Tran's Story (Part 1): When Baby Eczema Is More Than Skin Deep
What if the thing you're told is "just skin" is actually your child's immune system crying out for help? In this powerful episode of Born For This Stories, Johanna and Peter sit down with Dr. Kim…
S2E6 Susie & Zayn (Part 2): Advocacy, Survival, and the Fight No One Sees
Some stories don't resolve quickly. Some live in the space between crisis and hope. Day after day. Month after month. In the emotional conclusion to this two-part series, Johanna and Peter continue…
S2E5 Susie & Zayn (Part 1): A Mother's Fight Through Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Some parents walk into a diagnosis. Others are thrown into it without warning. In this powerful two-part story, Johanna and Peter sit down with Susie, mom of three and mother to Zayn — her brave…
S2E4 Dr. Susan's Story: Adoption, Down Syndrome, and the Power of Connection
Some stories take your breath away, not because they're tragic, but because they are so full of life that you can feel every heartbeat of them. In this episode, Johanna and Peter sit down with Dr.…
S2E3 Red Light, Real Healing: A Conversation with Dr. Alison Evans of Fringe
What if one of the most powerful healing tools for your medically complex child has been around for 50 years, and no one ever told you about it? In this illuminating episode, Johanna and Peter sit…
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Born For This Stories has published 37 episodes since June 2025, covering topics in Alternative Health, Health & Fitness.
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