Quantum Shifts
A Practical Framework for Navigating Life's Biggest Changes
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Quantum Shifts
Narrated by:
Pooja Lakshmin MD
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Narrated by:
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Pooja Lakshmin MD
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.
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Reviews
Praise for Quantum Shifts
"Pooja Lakshmin is a psychiatrist with the heart of a sociologist, and Quantum Shifts is her most powerful work yet. She combines profound compassion with a deep understanding of structural forces, and the result is nothing short of revelatory."
— Anne Helen Petersen
"At once profound and practical, Quantum Shifts is a highly engaging how-to guide for navigating an existential crisis. With remarkable clarity, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin distills complex psychological ideas into useful, everyday language and shows us how to find our footing when life changes dramatically or when we need a new way to make sense of it. This book is a must-read for anyone facing a significant transition, grappling with a loss of meaning, or wrestling with the profound uncertainty of our time. I cannot recommend this wise, humane, and extraordinarily useful book highly enough."
— Lisa Damour, PhD, Author of Untangled and The Emotional Lives of Parents
"Quantum Shifts is a wise and deeply humane guide to one of adulthood’s hardest questions: What do we do when the old ways stop working? At a moment when our assumptions about work, success, and relationships feel increasingly uncertain, Lakshmin brings the wisdom of a psychiatrist and the insight of a cultural critic to explain why life’s biggest transitions can leave us so profoundly disoriented and how to trust ourselves enough to reclaim our agency and discover what matters most now."
— Jennifer Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
"Having built a movement that became central to my identity and then made the difficult decision to step away from it, I know how disorienting it can be when the rules and roles that once defined you no longer fit. Quantum Shifts beautifully captures that messy space between who you were and who you’re becoming. Lakshmin offers a wise, compassionate, and deeply practical framework for resisting the urge to rush toward certainty and instead learning to trust what is emerging. I wish I’d had this book during my own biggest transitions. It’s an essential guide for anyone asking the terrifying but exhilarating question: Who am I now?"
— Shannon Watts, author, activist and founder emerita of Moms Demand Action
"Pooja Lakshmin is a psychiatrist with the heart of a sociologist, and Quantum Shifts is her most powerful work yet. She combines profound compassion with a deep understanding of structural forces, and the result is nothing short of revelatory."
— Anne Helen Petersen
"At once profound and practical, Quantum Shifts is a highly engaging how-to guide for navigating an existential crisis. With remarkable clarity, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin distills complex psychological ideas into useful, everyday language and shows us how to find our footing when life changes dramatically or when we need a new way to make sense of it. This book is a must-read for anyone facing a significant transition, grappling with a loss of meaning, or wrestling with the profound uncertainty of our time. I cannot recommend this wise, humane, and extraordinarily useful book highly enough."
— Lisa Damour, PhD, Author of Untangled and The Emotional Lives of Parents
"Quantum Shifts is a wise and deeply humane guide to one of adulthood’s hardest questions: What do we do when the old ways stop working? At a moment when our assumptions about work, success, and relationships feel increasingly uncertain, Lakshmin brings the wisdom of a psychiatrist and the insight of a cultural critic to explain why life’s biggest transitions can leave us so profoundly disoriented and how to trust ourselves enough to reclaim our agency and discover what matters most now."
— Jennifer Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose
"Having built a movement that became central to my identity and then made the difficult decision to step away from it, I know how disorienting it can be when the rules and roles that once defined you no longer fit. Quantum Shifts beautifully captures that messy space between who you were and who you’re becoming. Lakshmin offers a wise, compassionate, and deeply practical framework for resisting the urge to rush toward certainty and instead learning to trust what is emerging. I wish I’d had this book during my own biggest transitions. It’s an essential guide for anyone asking the terrifying but exhilarating question: Who am I now?"
— Shannon Watts, author, activist and founder emerita of Moms Demand Action
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