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“Back and Forth”: From Next Door Neighbors to Chosen Family
When Sage bought a small pink house in Boulder, Colorado, she had no idea her next-door neighbor would become something closer to family. Over the last 18 years, Sage and Margaret wove their lives…
REFAM CHAT: A New Way To Freeze And Donate Your Eggs with Lauren Makler
Years ago, Lauren Makler was diagnosed and treated for a rare abdominal disease. Doctors told her her ovaries might not survive the surgeries she needed, so when she conceived her first child without…
REFAM CHAT: How We’re Re-examining Wedding Traditions
Julia and Claire are both getting married this year (cute!) and the wedding planning process has opened up new refamulating questions for them: who do we include in the celebration? What traditions…
REFAM CHAT: How To Find Your People (And Community) with Katherine Goldstein
For a lot of Americans, it’s getting harder and harder to find community. Fewer people are religious, we move around more and with more things online, we spend less time running errands and…
REFAM CHAT: It’s Okay To Put Friendship At The Center Of Your Life (with Rhaina Cohen)
Our culture spends a lot of time talking about the importance of romantic love: finding it, keeping it, and normalizing it as THE most important person in your life. But that completely discounts the…
REFAM CHAT: Cracking ‘The Mother Code’ with author Ruthie Ackerman
When Ruthie Ackerman was in her late 30s, she realized she wanted to have a baby. But there was a problem- she was married to someone who didn’t. So, she got divorced and began a transformative…
20 I Refriendulating: A celebration of platonic soulmates
To wrap season 2, we honor and celebrate the unsung heroes of our emotional lives—our closest friends. While we celebrate romantic milestones with parties and gifts, our friendships—often life's most…
19 I Finding Peace with Parents Who Don't Fully Accept You with Jedidiah Jenkins
Show Notes: Disagreeing with your family is nothing new. But in the last decade, as politics and culture in the U.S. have become increasingly polarized, so have many of our families. Jedidiah Jenkins…
S2E18 18 I There’s Nothing Wrong With You! You’re Just Single
Almost half of American adults are single, yet we still treat being unpartnered as a problem to solve. But being single is not better or worse than being in a relationship, it’s just a different…
S2E17 17 I Caregiving & Family Pt 2: The Realities of Caring For Children with Disabilities
Erica spent her childhood living with a disability and needing a lot of care from her mom. As an adult, she’s now the caretaker to two children with disabilities. In this episode, Erica talks about…
S2E16 16 I Caregiving & Family Pt 1: What It's Really Like To Receive Long-Term Care When You Have a Disability
In this episode we meet Kathleen Downes- a 31-year-old woman who lives with her parents and dog in New York. Kathleen has cerebral palsy, which means she needs constant care to do daily activities.…
S2E15 15 I Family Preservation in Foster Care: Building a bridge between two families through radical compassion
Aaliyah and Jamyla have three moms - their birth mother Nicole, their foster mom (soon to be adopted mom) Chalice, and Chalice's fiancée Rachel. Chalice and the girls met eight years ago when the…
S2 REFAM CHAT: Recognizing All Of Our Milestones
Something we’ve realized while working on this project is that the nuclear family has infiltrated so much of our lives. (For example, housing in America is designed for a single, nuclear…
S2E14 14 I The Single Greatest Choice: Embracing solo motherhood
Katie Bryan grew up in a nuclear family in Texas, and always dreamed her future family would include a doting husband, a beautiful house in the suburbs, and of course, children. She spent almost 20…
S2 REFAM CHAT: The name dilemma
A lot of us refamulating have faced a similar challenge: as we choose a new path or carve out a different role in a family, we realize there is no name for us. A step-parent wants a more warm and…
S2E13 13 I Don’t Tell Mom: Grieving the “living death” of family estrangement
When Emily was a child, a family member abused her and told her to keep it a secret. She kept that secret until she was 34, but her family didn’t react well once she told the truth. Eventually Emily…
S2E12 12 I Reframing The American Dream (Pt 2): Communal Living Makes a Family
Show Notes: What happens when you expand beyond the nuclear family home? In this episode, we meet people who've chosen to share their daily lives with others in unconventional ways - from two married…
S2E11 11 I Reframing The American Dream (Pt 1)
The nuclear family has been held up as the ideal for generations, but it's actually a relatively recent invention. From college dorms to pandemic pods, some of our happiest moments come from living…
S2 REFAM CHAT: Love is in the air + Sister Wives
Before season 2 officially starts Tuesday, Nov 12, Julia and Claire chat about a few things: Julia is officially a Fairy Godmother and shares an update (the twins are born! she's held them!) Claire…
S2 Season 2 Trailer
We're back with season 2 of Refamulating! We have more stories of personal and family transformation including being a solo mom by choice, how caregiving impacts families, polyamory and more. Season…
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