The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar M.D.

Jan 2024 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

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“The key is managing stress, so we can lead healthier, happier lives. The 5 Resets will help you do just that.”

  — Katie Couric, Journalist and Founder and CEO, Katie Couric Media  

"A masterful approach to rewire our brains and bodies from the inside out."

   — Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global

“The doctor everybody needs.”

 — Mel Robbins, Host of the Mel Robbins Podcast

From Harvard stress expert, nationally sought after speaker, and television correspondent Dr. Aditi Nerurkar comes a reimagined approach to overcoming your stress and burnout using five small but mighty mindset shifts.

For Dr. Nerurkar, the common misperception of stress as “bad” needs reframing. Stress is a healthy biological phenomenon that helps us tackle life’s many demands. It becomes problematic when it’s out of tune with the frequency of our lives, resulting in burnout, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and many other physical symptoms. To bring stress back to healthy levels, Dr. Nerurkar offers her five science-backed mindset shifts, rooted in more than two decades of clinical experience, for when life gets hard:

• The First Reset: Get Clear on What Matters Most
• The Second Reset: Find Quiet in a Noisy World
• The Third Reset: Sync Your Brain and Your Body
• The Fourth Reset: Come Up for Air
• The Fifth Reset: Bring Your Best Self Forward

Dr. Nerurkar illuminates why our everyday attempts at being “resilient”—like multitasking, sleeping less, and undergoing huge lifestyle overhauls—aren’t beneficial to our stressed brains. Instead, she prescribes practical, real-world solutions for our modern-day perils that are time efficient, cost-free, and can be applied to anyone’s life, including following the Resilience Rule of 2 (making no more than two changes at a time because doing more is unsustainable), accepting that multitasking is a myth (our brains are wired to do one thing at a time!), and adopting her Bookend Method (creating boundaries to honor our brain’s need for compartmentalization).

The five mindset shifts, along with fifteen proven techniques, offer you a road map to change your relationship with stress, bring your biology back into balance, and feel calmer right now.

Ratings and reviews

I thought this book was easy to understand and offered very practical suggestions for how to manage your stress and improve your physical and mental health. It provides 3 research-backed techniques for each of 5 resets. You can make small, manageable lifestyle changes that will make a real difference over time. Some of the problems she addresses, such as unhealthy relationships with news, social media, or food, didn’t apply to me, but I suspect everyone will find something of value here.

About the author

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is a Harvard stress expert, internationally recognized speaker, and national television correspondent with an expertise in stress, burnout, resilience and mental health. Her book The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience is a “must read” by Adam Grant and Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club and “best new book” by the New York Post. Named “100 Women to Know in America,” her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, The Today Show and NPR. She is also a frequent keynote speaker with talks at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit and other events.