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Dare To Share Your Untold StoryAuthor: Salima Jadavji
'Dare To Share Your Untold Story' has been brought to you with the intention to break down the barriers of mental stigma, embrace mental beauty and invite guests to a safe place to share with vulnerability, without holding back, their true and full story - no matter what part of the journey that they are in, beginning, middle or end. As a society we are conditioned to keep some of our most painful stories a secret. No matter what we each have suffered with - whatever the struggle, hurdle or strife we face there is always a part of our story that remains untold. The 'untold story' has a lot to do with the impact on mental health which we shy away from sharing. So let's expose what we suppress and embrace the invitation of mental beauty. The notion of embracing 'mental beauty' is the next way to see mental healthand when you dare to share...you break the silence, speak your truth, use your voice, and inspire others to do the same. TOGETHER we can dare and shareso let's take a vow to 'dare to share our untold stories'! Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Personal Journals, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 133: Part II: The Unexpected End of an Era — Laying Her to Rest
Episode 133
Tuesday, 17 March, 2026
For the last time on this platform, the seats are reversed. Rishma Govani steps into the interviewer role, holding space as Salima shares the untold story that could not be spoken until now — the lived experience of losing her grandmother, losing her mother just twenty days later, and navigating the irreversible shift that followed. This episode does not retell events for shock value. It lingers in the spaces grief inhabits quietly: the hospital rooms where time compresses, the moral rupture of withholding water from someone you love, the weight of asking whether intervention has become prolonging suffering, the moment of recognizing when love means release. Salima speaks candidly about what this loss did to her nervous system, her identity, and her sense of safety. She reflects on surviving surgery updates, advocating through uncertainty, absorbing fear for others, and surrendering control when outcomes were no longer negotiable. She names the loneliness of grieving without a settled space to land, the disorientation of being the steady one while internally unraveling, and the humility of discovering that wisdom does not exempt you from devastation. This is not an episode about closure. It is about the beginning of grief. About integration instead of resolution. About learning to live in a body that now carries absence differently. It is also the final episode of Dare to Share Your Untold Story. Not because the work has ended, but because this chapter has completed what it came here to do. What began years ago as a space for daring and sharing concludes here with reverence — laid down in honour of lineage, timing, and the truth that some endings are acts of integrity. Her key message to the listeners of the show is: Time is precious, so take time to really look at how you're spending your time, what you're giving your energy to, and whether it's actually aligned with what matters most to you in the bigger picture of your life; connect with yourself, connect honestly with your emotions; allow yourself to express what's true — without malice, but without suppression either; you are allowed to change after what you've lived through; you're allowed to outgrow versions of yourself that once kept you safe; you don't owe anyone continuity if it costs you truth.
