Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD

53. Dr. Alok Trivedi: You’re Not Lazy—You’re Wired That Way (Here’s How to Change It)

Apr 15, 2025

Dr. Alok Trivedi, a leading expert in performance psychology and founder of the Rewire system, dives deep into how unresolved traumas shape our health and habits. He reveals that mindset work alone often fails without emotional integration. Listeners learn about the neuroscience behind reprogramming the brain to escape negative cycles and the impact of trauma on the nervous system. Dr. Trivedi shares strategies for emotional healing and the importance of aligning mental and physical health for personal growth, providing real-world tools for transformation.

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Quick takeaways

Trauma influences health and behavior by becoming embedded in the nervous system, necessitating personalized healing strategies for effective transformation.

Effective change extends beyond positive affirmations, requiring deep emotional integration to rewire subconscious patterns that dictate behavior.

Challenging ingrained beliefs tied to safety is essential for breaking persistent behavioral loops and enhancing personal growth and psychological health.

Deep dives

The Impact of Identity on Health

Your identity plays a crucial role in shaping your health and well-being. It influences your habits, emotional responses, and can even lead to physiological changes such as chronic fatigue or tension. Unprocessed emotions often manifest physically, highlighting how the body reflects the mind's ignored issues. To initiate genuine change in health, it is essential to examine the identity from which one operates.

Intro

2min

Living an Inspired Life

15min

Balancing Metabolic Health and Mental Fitness

6min

Rebalancing Experiences: Transforming Negative to Positive Perception

2min

Rewiring Emotions for Success

15min

Understanding Yourself: The Path to Emotional Healing

4min

The Neuroscience of Trauma and Healing

2min

Healing Past Traumas: Mind-Body Connection Techniques

3min

Transforming Trauma: Healing Through Emotional Rebalancing

11min

Ever feel stuck, even when you're doing all the right things? In this episode, Dr. Shah sits down with Dr. Alok Trivedi, also known as Dr. Rewire, to explore how our unresolved traumas, subconscious beliefs, and identity patterns silently shape our health, habits, and happiness.

You’ll discover how trauma wires into the nervous system, why mindset work often fails without deeper emotional integration, and how behavioral reprogramming can unlock personal and professional breakthroughs. Dr. Trivedi breaks down the neuroscience of change, helping us understand how to stop repeating old cycles and start rewiring for resilience, clarity, and growth.

Whether you’re navigating stress, burnout, or simply ready to evolve, this episode delivers science-backed insights with real-world tools to shift your life from the inside out.

Dr. Alok Trivedi is a leading expert in performance psychology, founder of the Rewire system, and has helped thousands reprogram their minds for lasting transformation.

We Also Discuss:

How trauma silently influences your behavior, health, and identity
Why mindset work alone isn’t enough for real transformation
The science of “rewiring” your brain to break free from subconscious patterns
How emotions get stored in the nervous system—and how to release them
Why personalized healing depends on the type of trauma you’ve experienced
Real-world strategies to shift out of survival mode and into aligned action

Learn more about Dr. Shah:

Website: https://www.drshah.com/

Clinic: https://www.next-health.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darshanshahmd/

Learn more about Dr. Alok Trivedi:

Website: https://drrewiretest.com/ Instagram: @dr.rewireLinkedIn: Dr. Alok Trivedi

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