You built the career. You earned the title. You became, fully and completely, the thing you worked so hard to be.

Then you got pregnant — and felt something no one warned you about. Grief.

Dr. Pria Anand is a Yale and Stanford-trained neurologist practicing at Boston Medical Center, Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine, and author of the award-winning The Mind Electric — a PEN America Literary Science Writing Award finalist and Best Book of 2025.  

And she is a mother of two under four.

She spent a decade pouring everything into medicine. "I was a neurologist and nothing else," she writes. It was her whole identity. It was more than enough.

Until it wasn't.

In this conversation, she gets honest about the identity shift no achievement prepares you for, the residency system built around a cocaine-addicted surgeon who didn't sleep, writing her book somehow during maternity leave, and what she never saw coming: that motherhood wouldn't shrink her world. It would finally let her see it in color.

This one is for the woman who has spent years becoming someone — and is now quietly asking: who am I now?

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