Oliver talks about being with his mother as she let go, and how the fear of the unknown slowly turned into curiosity. He says his default is curiosity, because he is about to learn something. I told him to sign me up.
Oliver explains VSED, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, and why his mother saw it as a spiritual path that gave her agency and choice. He talks about sitting beside her through all of it.
Oliver talks about an out-of-body experience, and the feeling of being pure energy inside a space that felt loving and unlimited. It's one of the more surprising moments in our conversation.
Oliver Christen shares a profound end-of-life decision that changed his family's story forever. Oliver spent two decades building businesses across Japan, the UK, and Australia before returning to Switzerland to care for his father. What was meant to be a short sabbatical turned into an extended season as a family…
Oliver's mother said goodbye to his children three times. The first time she cried. The second time she cried a little less. The third time she simply said goodbye. Oliver talks about watching her let go one small piece at a time.
Have you ever wondered what you would say if someone you love told you they were ready to go? Most of us put that conversation off, and it waits for us anyway. Oliver spent about twenty years far from Switzerland, in Japan, the UK and Australia. He came home for…
How do you keep living when your worst fear actually happens? Hard to hear, and worth hearing. If someone in your life is walking through loss, send this their way. #griefsupport #lifeshiftpodcast #shorts
A friend kept negotiating with Charu over a weekend plan, and she finally told him she didn't have the capacity. She'd practiced that line in the mirror first. Afterward she felt happy and relieved, like she'd done something for herself, and her confidence started growing from there. We also got…
Charu says learning to say no was one of the hardest skills of her life, and she calls it a skill on purpose. As a lifelong people pleaser she kept saying yes to everything. So she wrote out lines and practiced them in front of the mirror, one sorry, I…
I asked Charu what a friend who knew her at twenty would say is the biggest difference now. She thinks they'd say she's more confident, because she didn't like herself back then and she loves herself now. She's also honest that some people won't like this version of her, and…
Charu did fully recover, and it took almost a year. She had to relearn how to walk and how to use each muscle, even her fingers. She calls it humbling, a grown woman who needed help just to get to the toilet. Somewhere in all of it she started appreciating…
Charu's dad worked hard his whole life and saved for retirement. He passed away at fifty-nine years and eleven months, just before it began. He always talked about the good life he'd have then, and he never got to live it. That left her asking what life is if she…
After Guillain-Barré, Charu Moorjani spent almost a year relearning how to walk and how to use each muscle. It was humbling. It also changed how she saw her body, and her life. From my conversation with Charu on The Life Shift Podcast. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWB-6S44VgQ Follow the show: https://www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com/follow/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=short&utm_campaign=storycut Newsletter:…
Content note: this story includes a sudden paralysis, a hospital stay, a ventilator and a divorce. Charu Moorjani felt a sinking feeling during her wedding events. It felt like one more checkbox, so she said yes anyway. On the first morning of the honeymoon she woke up unable to feel…
Charu calls herself a control freak, and says she still is a little bit. Waking up in that hospital showed her how little of life she actually controls. She started asking what we're all doing chasing things without really living, and it planted a small seed of curiosity about her…
When the paralysis reached her lungs, Charu was put on a mechanical ventilator, and that's when doctors named it Guillain-Barré syndrome. She woke up a few days later on life-saving drugs. For the first time in her life she wasn't thinking about goals or plans. All she wanted to know…
During the wedding events Charu felt a sinking feeling in her stomach. She didn't really want to get married, but his family was traditional and it came down to marrying or breaking up. It felt like one more checkbox, so she said yes. Then came the first morning of the…
I asked Charu which decision was harder, getting married or getting divorced. Her answer was the divorce. She was scared of the judgment and the stigma, and she'd be starting from scratch in a friend circle she and her ex had shared. She says she couldn't see a path forward.
I asked Charu which decision was harder, getting married or getting divorced. Her answer was the divorce. She was scared of the judgment and the stigma, and she'd be starting from scratch in a friend circle she and her ex had shared. She says she couldn't see a path forward.
Maybe you have ticked every box and still wondered why the feeling never showed up. The degree, the job, the right age, the right house. You reach the milestone and happiness quietly slips over to the next one. Charu grew up believing a good life was a checklist. On the…
Charu Moorjani shares how a Guillain-Barré diagnosis on her honeymoon led her to question her checklist life, leave her marriage, and start over with her own voice. Charu did everything on the list. The right degree, the right career, the right age to marry, the house. Every time she hit…
Charu says she read somewhere that when you keep ignoring yourself, your immune system can end up paying for it. Then she thought back to the relationship she started at eighteen, when she was the good girl and the chameleon who adjusted to whoever was in the room. Somewhere she…
Charu says she read somewhere that when you keep ignoring yourself, your immune system can end up paying for it. Then she thought back to the relationship she started at eighteen, when she was the good girl and the chameleon who adjusted to whoever was in the room. Somewhere she…
Grief and joy can sit in the same room. You don't have to pick one. This is one of the most honest things I've heard about loss. Full episode on The Life Shift Podcast. #grief #lifeshift #childloss #shorts
