World of Wisdom: Changing expectations - a podcast by BBC World Service

How do we learn to adapt when life doesn't go as we planned? Sometimes thelife we believed we should be living and the expectation of the person we would become, no longer matches reality. Max, from Germany, became divorced during the pandemic. Therapist and author Dr Shefali, speaks to him about letting go of the idea of marriage as a ‘happily ever after’ and about how our own ego can stand in the way of personal growth.

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