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So Into That

becoming experts on our own stress with stress expert dr. aditi nerurkar

So Into That

Caro Chambers

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

My husband and I have been following the amazing Dr. Aditi Nerurkar for months now, and putting her tips to work in our sometimes-stressful lives.

Now that she’s put all her wisdom together in a book and started her own Substack, it seemed like the time to ask her to share science-backed strategies for managing and mastering stress – beyond unhelpful and annoying clichés (“just relax?!”).

So in this episode, we talk about the personal stress crisis that inspired Aditi to become a world expert on the subject; how she manages her own stress as a working mom with a young kid; and how to apply the “5 Resets" in your day-to-day life.

We also get into:

* Finding small moments of calm throughout the day

* The 3-second routine she recommends when making a transition (before picking up kids, etc.)

* Night time screen time and “Revenge Bedtime Procrastination”

* What keeping your phone nearby at work or in bed does to your stress

* Habit formation and why falling off the wagon can actually be good

Links

* Gaiam Posture Corrector

* Aditi’s Instagram

* Her new Substack, It’s Not You, It’s Your Stress

* Her podcast, Time Out: A Fair Play Podcast

* Aditi’s book, The Five Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Dr. Aditi, Naurukar, I'm so excited to have you here.

0:04.0

I am so excited. I am truly a fan of your work and it's such an honor.

0:12.0

That's ridiculous for you to say to me because you are a true expert in a field,

0:17.0

whereas I just spout off nonsense all day, so thank you for saying that.

0:21.0

My husband and I have been following you on Instagram for many months now. You just

0:29.2

came out with a new book called, I had a copy of it in front of me and I don't have it now, called the five resets rewire your brain and body for less stress and more resilience.

0:40.0

I like the sounds of that.

0:42.0

I'm so glad.

0:45.0

That is a thing that we all need a little bit more in our lives.

0:49.0

Can you tell us, I normally do an intro before my guests come on, but I kind of thought, I kind of want

0:55.8

a d-deed to just like, because I can't tell this story of how you became a stress expert.

1:00.4

Like what, you were a stress expert. what does that mean? How did you become a stress

1:06.0

expert? Why did you want to write this book? Give it to us?

1:10.0

I think my origin story, my villain origin story, is that I was a stress patient looking for answers

1:19.5

long before I became a doctor on stress. I was a medical resident in my second year of medical training working 80 hours a week

1:26.0

and sleeping every third night in the hospital. I had erratic sleep, erratic food, I was

1:31.7

not taking care of myself at all, as you can imagine.

1:34.1

You're young. You're young, you think you're invincible, and in my medical training,

1:39.5

I was taught at a very early stage of my medical training. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in an auditorium filled with my peers and a professor gets up and says,

1:49.0

what you're going to go through so few people get to do this, pressure makes diamonds. Remember that at every

1:56.1

turn. So I was going through my medical trading. I mean it's major, what a thing to say, right? So I went through my medical training with that

2:04.0

mantra pressure makes diamonds so whenever the times got tough as they

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