Maya Shankar

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1,518 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 5 Jul

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The mindbodygreen Podcast · 633: The psychology of uncertainty, growth & hope | Maya Shankar, Ph.D. · 18 Jan 2026 podcast

You are fully Jason.

I'm fully Maya.

But I don't have any portals for communicating with the world around me other than my eyes.

And so Olivia wakes up in this state.

And what I found so shocking about her story

is what being locked in revealed to her about who she was and mental states and perspectives that were potentially holding her back.

So one of the themes that emerges in my book, The Other Side of Change, is that change can serve as revelation.

So when a bad thing happens to us, it can feel like a personal apocalypse, right?

Like the world that we knew and had grown comfortable with is no longer available to us.

And there's something interesting about the word apocalypse, which is that it comes from the Greek word apocalypsis.

And apocalypsis does mean revelation.

And so I share this etymology because it is instructive.

Change can upend us, but it can also reveal things to us.

Sometimes, or most of the time, we go about our lives sort of thinking we have a good understanding of who we are.

But at the end of the day, it's based on a pretty limited set of data points that we've happened to collect over the course of our lives based on the random arbitrary experiences that we've happened to undergo.

And it is sometimes a massive change, right?

The anvil falling out of the deep blue sky that reveals something to us that had previously been hidden from view, or it's the new stresses or constraints of our new environment that allows us to see something in us that was not that visible to us before.

And so for Olivia, she actually only really registers the gravity of her situation when her boyfriend's family comes to visit.

And that's because for much of Olivia's life, she was a pathological people pleaser, okay?

She desperately wanted the approval and affection of others.

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