Show Notes
Midlife comes with a lot of twists. Your Turn with Allison Aubrey is here to help you navigate them. Hosted by longtime NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey, the show brings together scientists, experts and inspiring stories of women making life-defining changes in their 50s and beyond. We tackle one challenge at a time with practical, evidence-backed ideas for feeling healthier, more connected and more confident about what's next. Episodes available starting in October.
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Welcome to Your Turn with Allison Aubrey — a new roadmap for midlife. In this first episode, we explore the science of the flow state. You know that feeling when you look up from a task and you realize hours have gone by? That's flow. And in midlife, it can be an important signal. Paying attention to that feeling (or returning to the things that brought you that feeling earlier in your life) may be one of the best clues you have about where you wanna go next. We're gonna hear from violinist Diane Allen, who lost her flow and then tried to find it again, and also from Dr. Richard Huskey, who studies the flow state and how each of us can find it.