About this episode

Dr. Eva Selhub discusses strategies to calm the nervous system and build resilience in the face of stress and anxiety.

How do you calm your nervous system when survival mode has quietly become your baseline? Dr. Eva Selhub joins Mike Vera on the Healthy & Awake Podcast to get into stress, anxiety, and burnout, and instead of a standard Q&A, Mike brought four case studies, the archetypes he sees over and over in sessions as a health coach: the guy stuck in the cookie-and-coffee loop who asks why even bother, the person waking at 2 a.m. with layoffs circling, the mom quietly dreading the empty nest, and the caregiver running on empty. Resilience is more than toughness, she says, and she argues that the coping most people reach for only brings the stress response part of the way down, which leaves the baseline creeping higher over time. 🔎 ABOUT THE GUEST — DR. EVA SELHUB Dr. Eva Selhub is a board-certified internist who spent 20 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and served as medical director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She ran her own integrated medicine practice for over two decades and has written six books, including Burnout for Dummies, Resilience for Dummies, and The Love Response, and she co-authored Your Brain…

People in this episode

Host: Mike Vera

Guest: Dr. Eva Selhub

Topics covered

• nervous system
• stress management
• anxiety
• burnout
• resilience
• health coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Medical School, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

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