Sometimes resilience shows up in ways you never expect. For Piper, it came when she realized that healing her son meant also healing herself. She started changing her own habits, experimenting, testing, and found that the anxiety she thought was permanent began to ease. How often do we forget that…
Poetry provided Cyra with the words to describe her confusion. It helped her understand how trauma felt in her body and spirit. Poetry created space to move forward and live with more intentionality. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #Poetry #TraumaHealing #MentalHealth…
Clay Garrett shares his excitement about attending a marriage retreat. He emphasizes that going to a retreat shows intention. It's about making things even better, not fixing problems. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #MarriageRetreat #Relationships #IntentionalLiving #TheLifeShift
Writing helped Cyra Dumitru process grief at 16. It felt too intense, so she stopped. Years later, she rediscovered its power. Writing brings clarity and releases emotional energy. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #GriefJourney #WritingTherapy #EmotionalHealing #LifeShift
Cyra Dumitru shares how poetry helped her heal. Her connection to language began early. She learned to express herself through poetry. Now she offers it to others as a way to heal. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #Poetry #MentalHealth #Grief #HealingJourney
Clay Garrett realized an opportunity for deep family connection during an unexpected time at home. He prioritized breakfast with his wife, played with his kids, and invested in relationships. This filled him up in a way previous jobs never could. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast…
Cyra Dumitru shares her deepest feeling from a difficult time. Even deeper than helplessness, she questioned her own responsibility. Could a decision she made have changed the outcome? She shares how she eventually found forgiveness. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #Forgiveness…
Cyra Dumitru describes the feeling of success alongside inner struggles. She felt overwhelmed by "an octopus of emotions”—shock, horror, confusion, grief, anger. It constricted her breathing and gut. A powerful image unlocked a poem, "The Faceless Day." Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit…
COVID was a flashpoint for Clay Garrett. Laid off in March 2020, he told his wife, "I'll have a job by then." What happened next? Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #COVIDStories #JobSearch #LifeShift #Inspiration
In the seconds after a shocking discovery, Cyra Dumitru heard a voice. It prepared her for what was to come: to help her brother, but also to protect herself. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #Trauma #Resilience #MentalHealth #Podcast
Listening to stories of resilience and transformation, I've realized how similar our feelings are, even with wildly different experiences. Everyone goes through life shifts. Sometimes we're lucky, sometimes not. But those shifts shape who we become. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com…
Cyra Dumitru recalls a moment of intense darkness. A presence of doom she couldn't ignore. She chose empathy over fear, stepping away to create space. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #Intuition #Empathy #Darkness #LifeShift #CyraDumitru
Clay Garrett realized he didn't want to work hard at things he didn't enjoy. Graphic design felt like solving a puzzle, which was fun… But after 20 years, it felt like the same thing, with nowhere to go. There's only so many flyers and brochures you can make, right? Subscribe…
She was brushing her teeth in her bathroom, only minutes after being in the kitchen with her brother. She heard him screaming outside her window. She looked out and realized, "He is burning himself." Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #LifeShift #Podcast…
Clay Garrett shares how the pandemic clarified what he wanted in life. Unexpectedly, COVID became a positive time. More time with family, real priorities emerged. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #LifeShift #PersonalGrowth #COVIDReflections #PodcastClips
Cyra hears screaming outside her window. It's her brother. He's in pain. She looks out and sees orange. In that instant, she realizes the unimaginable. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #TrueStory #Motherhood #Heartbreak #Trauma
It's okay to be uncomfortable together. Most of the time, it's not as bad as you think. Clay Garrett encourages having those experiences, even marriage retreats! Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #LifeShift #Podcast #Relationships #Connection #ClayGarrett
He’s burning himself… A moment of silence and self-reflection. Cyra Dumitru describes a "threshold moment." The brief but significant space between the before and the after. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #ThresholdMoment #LifeShift #SelfReflection #CyraDumitru
Suicide is a sensitive subject. If you're concerned about someone, help is available now, not years ago. 988 is the suicide crisis line—available 24/7. It can talk folks away from that. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on your favorite podcast app or visit www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com #SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth #CrisisLine #988
People outside of the company were making fun of having to read books and write reports about them. But Clay was excited! In the past, he would have found someone else to write them for him. Now, he gets to learn and grow. Subscribe to The Life Shift Podcast on…
What happens when grief feels too big for words? Poet and practitioner of poetic medicine Cyra Sweet Dumitru shares how losing her brother as a teenager shaped her life and how writing became her path toward healing. Cyra Sweet Dumitru (http://www.cyrasweetdumitru.com/) is an accomplished poet, instructor of poetry writing, and…
What if losing your job gave you the life you really needed? Clay Garrett spent 25 years in design and advertising before a sudden COVID-era layoff forced him to rethink what success really meant. Instead of rushing back into the workforce, he embraced the gift of time, rediscovered his family,…
Some moments stay with us long after they end. The choice we made. The thing we wish we had said. The image that still lingers when the room goes quiet. Cyra’s story begins with one of those moments, the kind that changes everything and asks who we will become after…
Have you ever been doing everything right and still felt something was missing? Clay Garrett thought he had built the life he was supposed to have. A stable career, a loving family, all the boxes checked. But when life suddenly stopped, he was invited to see what really mattered. Clay’s…
