Dr Maryam Zeineddin - Shift to Leading Your Whole Self | The SHIFT Sessions

Dr. Maryam Zeineddin stands on the Shift Sessions Vancouver 2025 stage with a truth many of us recognize but rarely name. She has spent years helping others heal, yet much of her own suffering came from the quiet ways she learned to lie to herself. Not out of intention, but out of childhood patterns shaped by loss, responsibility, and the unspoken belief that love had to be earned through strength, service, and endless striving.

In this talk, Maryam shares the early wound of losing the caregiver who anchored her, the weight of growing up as the eldest daughter, and the way those patterns carried into adulthood. She became a respected family doctor, a leader, a mother, and a clinic owner. She delivered babies, cared for thousands of patients, and fought to improve the medical system. On the outside it looked like purpose. Inside, her body and soul were telling a different story.

She speaks openly about the years of anxiety, depression, burnout, and physical pain that followed. About mistaking exhaustion for meaning. About ignoring her own signals in order to show up for everyone else. And about the moment she finally paused long enough to hear the quiet truth she had been avoiding.

That truth led her to create ZiliCare, a preventative health platform built on the belief that our physical, emotional, and mental health cannot be separated. She shares the CARE framework she developed for herself and her patients: calming the mind, activating the body, reinforcing it with kindness, and engaging the soul. Through mentorship, therapy, and deep self-awareness, she began peeling back the inherited stories that told her she was only worthy if everyone else was okay.

This talk is an invitation to stop waiting for the body to break before listening, to stop ignoring the inner signals that are asking for attention, and to return to the truth you have been carrying all along. Maryam reminds us that self-awareness is not discovered in a moment. It is built through honest reflection, steady presence, and the courage to choose a life that nourishes the soul, not the ego.

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