The 5 Resets

Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

By: Aditi Nerurkar

Narrated by: Aditi Nerurkar

Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

“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

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.

©2024 Aditi Nerurkar (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Perfect timing

For me, when I purchased this book, I was in a very low place. I was aware that I am depressed, lack of motivated, sleep walking through my days could not go on. Dr. Nerurkar's story is wonderfully woven into the diamonds in this book. For me, it adds credibility to her advice that she shares her own journey with stress, anxiety and backs up her findings with facts. It is inspiring how she found a successful way toward recreating resilience and healing in her life and those of her patients. I have already sent the book as a gift to a friend.

Useful and inspiring

This brings me hope in the midst of acute stress and burnout. It has provided me with the steps I believe I need to improve both my physical and mental well-being. I will update with the results. Thank you Dr Nerurkar!

Practical and Doable!

One of the few books I have made it all the way through without getting stuck in the middle by some garbage chapter that makes no sense.
The entire book was filled with practical advice and activities.
I will recommend it to my clients.