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Dhru Purohit Show

What Chronic Illness and A Life Altering Diagnosis Can Teach Us About Living Life To Our Fullest Potential

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Pique Life and Cozy Earth. Navigating illness—whether it's our own or that of someone we deeply love—is one of life’s greatest challenges. It can shake our foundations, test our resilience, and bring uncertainty to even the most grounded lives. But amid the struggle, illness also holds the potential to awaken us—to deepen our understanding of the body, sharpen our intuition, and reconnect us to something greater than ourselves. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we’re bringing you a special compilation episode featuring Dhru’s conversations with top experts on near-death experiences and how these profound moments can become portals to healing, clarity, and deep self-discovery. Anita Moorjani shares the life-changing lessons and mindset shifts she experienced during her coma, and how her near-death experience transformed the way she lives today. Dr. Cynthia Li opens up about her journey with autoimmune illness and the limitations of a traditional medical system that often waits until symptoms are severe before taking action. She explains why it’s essential to create space between your identity and your diagnosis, and highlights the key pillars that guided her path to healing. Anita Moorjani is a renowned author and spiritual speaker known for her transformative journey beyond the brink of death. Anita battled end-stage cancer before experiencing a remarkable near-death experience (NDE) that shifted her perspective on life. Her bestselling memoir, “Dying to Be Me,” chronicles her profound journey and miraculous healing.  Dr. Cynthia Li has practiced as an internist in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic, serving the homeless. Her personal health challenges led her to integrative and Functional Medicine, and she currently has a private practice in Berkeley, CA. She is the author of Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness. In this episode, Dhru and his guests explore: What Anita experienced during her coma and the feeling of unconditional love (2:40) Lessons from beyond (9:40) The freedom and challenge of returning to the status quo (14:51) Dhru’s personal story about the passing of a loved one (19:56) When Dr. Li discovered she was suffering from an autoimmune condition (35:46) The limitations of traditional diagnoses (43:56) Why we need to create space between ourselves and our diagnosis (45:56) One of the first steps Dr. Li took toward healing (52:23) How she learned to tune into her intuition and let it guide her recovery (56:07) The key pillars that played a crucial role in her healing (1:00:16) The transformative impact of qigong on her journey (1:03:22) Hitting rock bottom—for the second time (1:05:46) Also mentioned: Full episode with Anita Moorjani Full episode with Dr. Cynthia Li This episode is brought to you by Pique Life and Cozy Earth. Right now, Pique Life is offering 20% off the Radiant Skin Duo, plus a free beaker and frother when you go to piquelife.com/dhru. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com/dhru and use code DHRUP.   Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, Drew Brode here. Navigating a health crisis, whether it be your own or along someone you love

0:05.9

can be one of the most difficult experiences we face in life. But they can also, these health

0:10.7

crises, they can also teach us an immense amount, in part through a greater awareness of how

0:16.0

our physical body operates. But more than even that, illness can also open doors to a deeper connection

0:22.0

with ourselves and our higher power or the universe or anything else that you believe in.

0:26.8

In today's compilation episode, we have something really unique and interesting from a few

0:31.2

past episodes with people who have faced life-altering health challenges and emerged

0:37.3

with powerful insights and new approaches

0:39.9

to the ways that they approach their daily lives and how they treat other people.

0:44.3

Anita Mourjani is a renowned author and spiritual seeker known for her transformative journey

0:49.8

beyond the brink of death.

0:51.8

Anita battled end-stage cancer before experiencing a remarkable near-death

0:56.3

experience that shifted her perspective on life forever. Her best-selling memoir, Dying to Be Me,

1:02.5

chronicles her profound journey on the path to a miraculous healing. And also on today's episode,

1:09.0

we have Dr. Cynthia Lee, who received her medical degree

1:11.9

from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Her personal health

1:17.5

challenges led her to an integrative and functional medicine approach in life, leaving behind

1:22.3

her traditional allopathic approach, and she currently has a practice in Berkeley, California.

1:29.0

She's also the author of Brave New Medicine, a doctor's unconventional path to healing her autoimmune illness. First,

1:35.7

let's listen in to this incredible discussion with Anita Morjani, as she shares what it was like

1:41.4

to have a near-death experience that allowed in her words

1:45.0

to temporarily leave her body and return back with some incredibly profound messages that we can

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