A great read: How to go back from listening to podcasts to listening to music again?

Publicist Meghan Daum wrote an interesting article for the GEN about how she switched from listening to music to listening to podcasts when she turned 40. Not that she doesn't like music anymore, it's just that - “music is alive with associations. I can’t listen to some of it if it’s too connected to a painful situation. Podcasts don’t seem to hold those same associations for me”. That's mostly music she listened to before, where there are associations. There's a solution - "to get a new car, one with Bluetooth so I can listen to my old music in a new way. Or force myself to listen to — and enjoy, god dammit — some new music". Plenty of that...