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Your one-stop shop for navigating the challenges of changing your life.
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When Can a Marriage Be Saved?
How to Know When It’s Time to End a Relationship
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Happily Ever After Starts With Singlehood
Read More'Parents Are Not All Good and All Bad'
Starting Over With the People Who Raised You
Read MoreStarting Over When You Think It's Too Late
How to Make the Most of Midlife Malaise
Read MoreIntroducing: How To Start Over
Your one-stop shop for navigating the challenges of changing your life.
Read MoreHow to Build a Happy Life: How to Identify What You Enjoy
How to Have Fun, Experience Satisfaction Through Purpose, and Find Joy In Everyday Life
Read MoreHow to Build a Happy Life: How to Live When You’re In Pain
The Path Forward in Struggle and The Paradox of Human Happiness
Read MoreHow to Build a Happy Life: How to Find the Secret to Meaningful Work
Working Towards Happier Days at Work
Read MoreHow to Build a Happy Life: How to Know That You Know Nothing
Staying Present and Breaking the Illusion of Stability
Read MoreHow to Build a Happy Life: How Not to Be Your Own Worst Enemy
What It Means to Be Yourself
Read MoreHow to Build a Happy Life: How to Know You're Lonely
Loneliness, Lending a Hand, and Living Life Around People
Read MoreHow to Build a Happy Life: How to Be Self-Aware
Manage Your Feelings, So They Don't Manage You
Read MoreIntroducing: How to Build a Happy Life
The Atlantic's new show on all things happiness, featuring Arthur Brooks
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In this series, Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan analyzes what it takes to change our relationships, our work, and our perspective—with a practical approach to one of life’s greatest mysteries: how to start over. Change can be really hard. Inertia is powerful, mortgages and marriages are long-term, and personality traits can feel pretty hardwired. But we’re in an era characterized by change. This series is your guide to starting over in the ways you’ve always wanted, why change is so hard, and whether it is, sometimes, overrated.
This series was produced by Rebecca Rashid and hosted by Olga Khazan. Editing by A.C. Valdez and Claudine Ebeid. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Matthew Simonson. If you have any questions, stories, or feedback, please email us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com or leave us a voicemail at 925-967-2091.