How to Handle Life When It Falls Apart: Rewire Your Beliefs, Calm Your Mind, Stop Ruminating & Move Forward With Confidence: Dr Maya Shankar #635

We move about in this world carrying so many beliefs, and so few of these beliefs we've actually interrogated over the course of our lives. And so we may carry views that don't reflect reality, that actually are self-limiting. Change can serve as a moment in which those beliefs are revealed to you, and then you can actually revisit them, assess them for their credibility and merit, and then potentially move forward in a world in which we don't have them. Hey guys, how are you doing? Hope you're having a good week so far.

My name is Dr. Rongan Chatterjee and this is my podcast, Feel Better, Live More. Most of us are quite comfortable with change when we've chosen it. A new job. a new home or a new relationship.

It's the unwanted, unexpected changes that tend to floor us, like an illness, loss, or breakup that leave us wondering who we are and how on earth we're meant to go on. In today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Maya Shankar, the wonderful cognitive scientist and author of the brand new book. The other side of change, who we become when life makes other plans. Maya has spent years studying how our minds respond to change, and she's also gone through some profound changes of her own, from a hand injury that shattered her hopes of becoming a concert violinist, to a long, painful journey with fertility.

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