There's a moment before every ending where we already know — and still, we hold on. In this episode, I talk about why we're so bad at letting go: the reasoning we spin, the story we add, the ways we get stuck replaying the past instead of moving through it. Using the psychological science of the "action crisis," along with what I learned ending something I built and loved, I walk through six steps for moving through an ending with more grace — so you can honor what's closing and make room for what's next.

We spend our twenties and thirties collecting achievements, and then one day we look up and ask: is this all there is? In this episode, I sit down with NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey — author of Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love — to talk about what it actually takes to answer that question. We get into the parts of ourselves we've left behind, the dreams we've stopped letting ourselves have, and the concrete, science-backed practices that can help you build a life with more room in it.