Navigating Stress: Understanding and Managing Challenges

A Harvard doctor on how she went from stress patient to stress expert.

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is a Harvard stress expert, and the author of The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body For Less Stress and More Resilience.

In this episode we talk about:

• Healthy stress vs. unhealthy stress 
• The distinction between stress and burnout
• What Dr. Nerurkar calls “toxic resilience”
• Finding quiet in a noisy world 
• The relationship between scrolling and sleeping
• The gut-brain connection
• Key breathing exercises
• Dealing with your inner critic 
• How to avoid what she calls “revenge nighttime procrastination” 
• Exercises to help you get into your “future self”
• The rule of two strategy
• And much more

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• Jon Kabat-Zinn, Creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
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• How to Thrive Under Stress | Elizabeth Stanley, PhD
• The Science Of Journaling: How Writing Reduces Overthinking, Rumination, And Anxiety | Dr. James Pennebaker (Co-Interviewed By Dr. Bianca Harris)

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Additional Resources: 

• Aditi on Substack