Episode 918
Stress Reduction: 5 Free, Quick, Science-Backed Strategies | Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
10% Happier with Dan Harris · 10% Media, LLC
March 10, 20251h 6m
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Show Notes
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
- Stress Better, Modupe Akinola
- 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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