Episode 137: Dr. Aditi Nerurkar: Resetting for 2024
Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is a Harvard physician, stress expert, speaker, national television correspondent, and host of the podcast, Time Out with Eve Rodsky. She is also a lecturer at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Global Health and Social Medicine, and serves as the co-director of the Clinical Clerkship in Community Engagement. She has spoken at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, the HBS Women's Conference, and many other events.
Most importantly, her new book, The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body For Less Stress and More Resilience, came out this past week, where she focuses on how to maintain healthy levels of stress.
In our conversation, we reflect on how the pandemic and other traumatic events of the last three years have impacted us all. Aditi shines a light on the unique challenges that make us more stressed out than our parents and opens up about the insights into stress she gained on her journey as a patient and as an expert while sharing practical tools for navigating the new normal.
Reading this book was probably the best thing I've done for myself to start out the year!
What we talked about:
How stress and burnout is the norm not the exception. You are not alone and it is not your fault. (03:54)
How information overload impacts the natural stress of parenting (08:55)
Healthy versus unhealthy stress + achieving the “sweet spot.” (18:04)
Dismantling the myth of multitasking + monotask to overcome stress and burnout.(21:26)
Aditi’s stress journey + her personal techniques for relaxation. + supporting the gut-brain connection to decrease stress-triggered illness. (25:55)
Aditi’s family immigration story + tackling taboos of mental illness in South Asian culture and around the world. (36:14)
Aditi’s deep connection to Bombay as key to her Indian identity. (42:09)
Rapid fire questions. (49:05)
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