Episode 77: Charles Chen

Don’t Be Scared to Live Your Life Fully.

Charles Chen is a man on mission to bring wellness, healing, and clarity to the world. His platforms have been broad and far reaching – Dr. Oz Show and Good Morning America. His prayer is simple: “Use me. Use me wisely.” His life of service and transformation began with what he calls his surrender moment. When he was 15 years old and began to free himself from the mental and emotional prison of his childhood growing up as an immigrant in America. To face the shame he felt about his emerging sexuality, and the unacknowledged and unreceived pain of the sexual trauma he experienced as a young boy, that lead him to becoming mute. To stop consuming mounds of junk food and French fries that led him to suffer from obesity.

The surrender moment. When he hit rock bottom, and that pain of falling became the catalyst that sparked significant changes within him. When he could affirmatively say, “I can do this. I can heal myself.” A statement, a wish, and a hope that came with a promise that he would also use that same energy and conviction to help heal other folks in need as his prayers and beliefs healed him. When he moved from a life of numbness and standing stuck at closed doors – unaware of the opportunities to live that he simply could not see – to his life now where he can proclaim, “Don’t be scared. Live fully and be in the present.”

Today, Charles believes that we are not called here to fit in, to march in the parade of lemmings to nowhere. Instead, we are here to stand out and let our unique gifts shine. Brightly. Because, at the end of the day, we must know that we are all divine vessels, here to be used in service to other people by showing up as the highest versions of ourselves. Looking back, he does not regret his sometimes-troubled journey, because for the divine to come through us and to use us, we must first be broken. Broken to be transformed.