Episodes
"The things I hadn't dealt with."
Josh was 12 years old when the phone rang on a quiet Sunday morning. He was home alone, mid-game of WWE SmackDown, when a voice on the other end broke the news. In this episode, Josh talks honestly about delayed grief, the wa...
"I will not become what I witnessed."
In this episode of Something Shifted, True Crime South Africa host Nicole Engelbrecht reflects on how childhood trauma shaped both her identity and her work, telling some of the country’s darkest stories. Nicole Engelbrecht g...
"Harder to kill"
Identity After Trauma, Brain Cancer, and the Science of Resilience. What happens when a brain tumor fractures the identity you’ve built your life around? In this episode of Something Shifted, Sean Loots explores identity afte...
If Chickens Can Do It
A case for optimism. In the prelude to the new season of Something Shifted, Sean Loots speaks to astrophysicist-turned-journalist and author of "The Bright Side" Sumit Paul-Choudhury, about the science and psychology of optim...