Stress Reduction: 5 Free, Quick, Science-Backed Strategies | Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

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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

• How to avoid “revenge nighttime procrastination”

• 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

• Stress Better, Modupe Akinola

• How to Thrive Under Stress | Elizabeth Stanley, PhD

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Additional Resources:

• The Science Of Journaling: How Writing Reduces Overthinking, Rumination, And Anxiety | Dr. James Pennebaker (Co-Interviewed By Dr. Bianca Harris)

• https://www.draditi.com/