THE OTHER SIDE OF CHANGE by Maya Shankar (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

THE OTHER SIDE OF CHANGE by Maya Shankar (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)
Author: Maya Shankar
Full title: The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans
Length: approximately 5 hours 50 minutes; narrated by Maya Shankar
Release date: January 13, 2026
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Psychology; Self‑help; Personal transformation

As host of A Slight Change of Plans and a cognitive scientist, Maya Shankar interweaves personal stories of her own disrupted dreams—abandoning a violin career for science, then facing infertility—with vivid accounts of others navigating illness, loss, and reinvention. Backed by research on identity and resilience, she reveals how unwanted upheavals trigger emotional paralysis but also unlock latent strengths, new priorities, and authentic selves if we shift from resisting to reinterpreting them. The audiobook offers practical frameworks for moving through grief and stuckness to emerge changed for the better on change’s “other side.