Hi there, it's Rohan. For Mental Health Awareness Month, we're partnering with a few other

shows to bring you some resources that might support your own mental health journey.

This week, I want to share a little bit about a slight change of plans. It's a wonderful

podcast hosted by one of our previous meditative story guests, Dr. Maya Shankar. On a slight change

of plans, Maya blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behaviour to explore

who we are and who we become in the face of big changes. Much like on meditative story,

you're here incredible life changing stories and timeless wisdom that can help you live a better

life. A slight change of plans is one of my favourite podcasts and I really think you'll love

it as well. So give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Her ease with the language seems like fluency to me.

My French, on the other hand, is more rudimentary, unimaginative and uninspired,

even though I've studied the language since grade school. My relationship with Valentin,

though enriched and inflected by French words and phrases, is only possible as a result of

her facility for English. In New York, I'm the one to set up our internet, deal with the landlord

and the immigration attorney. I write the checks and know all the doctors.

But in our new life in Paris, I'm immediately my wife's dependent.

From time to time, it feels paradoxically that I am somehow growing younger.

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a writer and critic who explores in his memoir self-portrait in black

and white, the experience of being biracial. I've only recently discovered Thomas, I'm so glad I

did. As a father of two young children who have very different skin tones to my own,

his writing about the limitations of narrowly defining ourselves as black or white really

connects with me. The meditative story that Thomas shares with us today comes from a different

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