Life Shift | True Stories of Healing, Grief & Loss

Time: When My Father Said It Just Went So Fast

Content note: this episode includes a conversation about death with dignity and a family history of suicide. Is there a room in your life that you still go back to? Jen

Belonging: Leaving the Only Life I Had Ever Known

Have you ever carried something you were handed, a belief, a role, a way of seeing yourself, and wondered how much of it was ever really yours? Margaret was born in an o

Letting Go: The Afternoon My Mother Said It Was 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 sp

She Woke Up Paralyzed on Her Honeymoon & Finally Questioned Her Checklist Life

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 happi

Undercover Cop with a Deathwish, and the Man With Grief Behind Him

Content note: this episode includes a detailed account of discovering a loved one's suicide. Todd Maguire spent twenty-seven years with the Queensland Police Service, mo

Forty Seizures in Six Weeks: Learning to Stop Hiding

Content note: this episode includes discussion of suicidal thoughts and a crisis hotline call. Travis White was twenty-three, newly engaged, and by his own description l

Stranded at Sea When the World Shut Down

Content note: this episode includes discussion of sexual assault and an abusive relationship. Sometimes the yes that changes everything looks, at the time, like an escap

Just Call Him: Estrangement, Grief, and the Father I'll Never Fully Know

Some goodbyes don't come with a conversation. They come with a phone you keep picking up and putting back down. Brittany Perham grew up in a house full of friends and hap

Coming Out as a Trans Woman at 45: The Filter That Changed Everything

Some of us carry a weight for so long that we forget it isn't supposed to be there. Chloe Kelly spent 35 years being very good at being someone she wasn't. She learned t

First Responder Mental Health: What a Helicopter Crash Opened Up

Maybe you know what it is to be the steady one. The person who shows up, holds it together, and makes sure everyone else is okay before anyone thinks to ask about you. Je

Grief: The Year I Edited My Best Friend Back to Life

Maybe you know what it is to lose someone in the middle of building something together. To be left holding a piece of unfinished work and a hole where a person used to be

Not That Weird: When the Thing You Hid Becomes the Thing You Give

Some of us have known something about ourselves for a very long time. And we have spent just as long trying to pretend we didn't. Kate Saint Clair grew up seeing and hea

Grief: The Last Kiss on an Ordinary Tuesday

Maybe you know what it is to finally exhale. To reach a season where the noise quiets down, the plan starts to work, and for the first time you let yourself believe thing

Belonging: Finding Family Among Strangers

Maybe you know what it feels like to hold everyone else together before you are old enough to hold yourself. To learn young that love can leave, and that safety is not so

Buried Memory: The Session That Changed Everything

You know the version of yourself you built to get through. The one who keeps the peace, reads the room, holds it together so no one else has to worry. Maybe you have wond

Showing Up: The Day I Stopped Trying to Fix It

Have you ever loved someone and felt the fear of losing them arrive in the very same breath? Most of us learn early to look away from that fear. Brad learned to look righ

Identity: The Injury That Cracked Tyler Bramlett Wide Open

Tyler spent years building what the world told him success looked like. The abs, the car, the company. And the world cheered him on. He drove his dream car home one day,

What He Heard: Six Words That Moved Him Across the World

There are moments in life when someone says something so simple, so obvious, that you almost miss it. And then it stays. It rewrites everything. Joomin Hwang had been dan

Midlife: The Night He Asked If He Would Fold

Maybe you’ve had a moment where you looked around at your life and didn’t recognize it. Not because it was bad, exactly. But because everything you’d been holding togethe

Blissful Ignorance: The Character Who Saved His Life

Some people live their early lives in what Dave Raymond calls blissful ignorance, and he'll be the first to tell you that isn't a bad thing. Growing up as the son of a le