How to Bounce Back from Life’s Curveballs (with Dr. Maya Shankar)

如何从生活的意外打击中恢复过来(与玛雅·尚卡尔博士访谈)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

2026-01-12

39 分钟
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Life has a way of upending even our best-laid plans. Breakups, job losses, scary health diagnoses — these unexpected changes can leave us feeling stuck and uncertain about what comes next.Dr. Laurie speaks with her dear friend and former student, Dr. Maya Shankar, author of The Other Side of Change and host of A Slight Change of Plans, about how to navigate these major shifts, including practical tips for leaning into change instead of resisting it and reimagining the possible selves we can become in the new year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • This is an I Heart podcast.

  • Guaranteed human.

  • Pushkin.

  • Especially in the new year, we tend to associate feeling happier with making changes.

  • Sometimes little changes, moving a bit more or connecting more with friends,

  • and sometimes big changes.

  • leaving a toxic job, or starting a new creative project.

  • But when we fantasize about the change we'll experience in 2026,

  • we're usually thinking about the changes that we choose.

  • But life can also hit us with changes that we don't see coming.

  • Being dumped, getting laid off, or even receiving a frightening health diagnosis.

  • When unexpected changes like these happen, they can often leave us feeling very stuck.

  • We feel like who we are and who we can become is no longer clear.

  • We don't have a firm grip.

  • on ourselves anymore.

  • So in the second episode in our season about getting unstuck in the new year,

  • we're going to explore how we can work with change in 2026 rather than fighting it.

  • And we have the perfect guest to guide us, though I admit I might be a little biased.

  • I'm Dr.

  • Maya Schunker and I'm host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans and the author of The Other Side of Change,