Quantum Shifts

di Pooja Lakshmin MD (Autore)

Penguin Audio, 2027

What happens when your life stops making sense? Whether it’s getting divorced, losing a job, sending a child off to college -- or even a welcome change like having a baby or moving in with a partner -- major life transitions divide our lives into a clear before and after. These moments can leave us unsettled, disoriented, and wondering why we aren’t handling things better. In Quantum Shifts, board-certified psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, MD, explains why these moments are so difficult to navigate. It’s not just that our circumstances have changed. During life’s pivotal moments, the stories that have long organized our lives -- that the right relationships will be easy to maintain, that professional achievement will lead to happiness, or that following the rules will create stability -- no longer hold. Our old identity no longer fits, but the new story of who we’re becoming has not yet formed. This disorienting passage is what Lakshmin calls a quantum shift. Drawing on more than a decade of psychiatric practice, psychological research, cultural analysis, and her own lived experience, Lakshmin maps the three predictable stages of a quantum shift and introduces six essential practices for moving through it. With clinical rigor and structural honesty, Quantum Shifts offers a psychology of change for our times -- one that accounts for the larger social and institutional forces reshaping our lives and shows us how to regain our bearings, reclaim our agency, and build a life around what is true now.

• Autore: Pooja Lakshmin MD
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 08:00:00
• Anno edizione: 2027
• Editore: Penguin Audio
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798217510764