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Mar 2025
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Stress Reduction: 5 Free, Quick, Science...

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About this episode

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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