How to Reset Your Stress Response and Rewire Your Brain for Resilience with Harvard Expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
Good Life Project
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4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, author of The Five Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience, shares how to reframe our relationship with stress. She explains why feeling overwhelmed is a common human experience, not a personal failing. Simple, science-backed techniques like breathing, social connection, journaling, and eliminating multitasking can help our minds and bodies reset.
Dr. Nerurkar offers realistic ways to introduce ease into our days through small, sustainable steps. Learn how to "do better" so you can start to "feel better" and thrive.
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| 0:00.0 | There is just a chronic level of elevated stress with these cyclical flares of things happening in the world and we are just all naturally at this time feeling a sense of being very keyed up. |
| 0:10.4 | But the good news is that you have the ability and the power to reset your stress from the inside |
| 0:18.4 | out using small changes. Let your brain and your body come back into balance and then you can be engaged in the world more fully rather than running on fumes as many of us are. |
| 0:30.0 | So bit of a trick question. |
| 0:33.6 | Have you ever felt like you were just drowning and stress |
| 0:36.2 | no matter what you tried that the weight of it all seems impossible? |
| 0:40.0 | I've been there, you've been there, turns out we have all been there. |
| 0:43.3 | This is this thing that we all experience, but rarely ever talk to each other about. |
| 0:47.2 | So today I'm speaking with Dr. Aditi Nurekhar, a Harvard stress expert, |
| 0:51.5 | on a mission to really help us reframe and reset our relationship |
| 0:54.5 | with stress. In my experience we often feel alone when stressed and she |
| 0:59.6 | validates this experience it's as if we're the only one struggling. The truth is stress |
| 1:04.5 | touches us all. As Aditi shares, it's a natural and healthy human response but in |
| 1:10.0 | modern life it can become over-activated, leaving us burned out and fatigued and the good |
| 1:14.6 | news there are simple daily mindset shifts that we can make to reboot our brains and bodies |
| 1:20.6 | no expensive spas or months in body required. |
| 1:23.4 | So Dr. Adide Nirokor is a nationally sought after speaker, |
| 1:27.1 | television correspondent, and author of the new book, The Five Resets, |
| 1:30.2 | rewire your brain and body for less stress and more resilience. |
| 1:33.9 | With over two decades of clinical experience, she offers a bit of a reimagined approach to overcoming |
| 1:39.9 | stress and |
| 1:45.0 | using five science-backed mindset shifts. |
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