Living With MS: Finding Strength From the Inside Out
From The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and After by Matt Gilhooly
May 10, 2026 · 44 min · Season 5 · Episode 246
About this episode
Shruti shares her journey of living with multiple sclerosis and finding inner strength amidst her challenges.
Maybe you have had a moment where your body tried to tell you something and you looked the other way. A small signal, easy to explain away. This episode is for anyone who has ever dismissed a whisper, and then had to reckon with what that whisper was trying to say. Shruti grew up as a working mom in Melbourne, living a normal, full life, when tingling in her feet gradually became something she could no longer ignore. Over years, that quiet signal grew into a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a progression from walker to wheelchair, and a complete reshaping of her career, her home life, and her sense of self. What she found on the other side was not what most people might expect. She found strength, not the performed kind, not the kind someone else told her she had to have, but a deep, steady resilience that rose out of the hardest circumstances of her life. This is a conversation about what it means to carry an invisible illness through a world that cannot see it. It is about traveling alone to Kerala to try Ayurvedic therapy on nothing but hope. It is about reliving your hardest moments to write a memoir, and about looking back at all the worry you carried before, and finally…
People in this episode
Host: Matt Gilhooly
Guest: Shruti
Topics covered
- multiple sclerosis
- invisible illness
- resilience
- personal journey
- Ayurvedic treatment
Keywords
- multiple sclerosis
- invisible illness
- resilience
- Ayurvedic therapy
- personal growth
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Ayurvedic therapy
Books & works: memoir
Places: Melbourne, Kerala
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