When Stress Cracks You Open | Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

About this episode

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar discusses the nature of stress and offers tools for managing it effectively.

Happy New Year! One week into 2026 and we’re already firing on all cylinders. So let’s kick it off with some destress tools to keep us all cool as cucumbers when things get spicy. 🥒😅🌶️ This week we sit down with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar , physician, Harvard Medical School faculty member, and author of The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain for Less Stress and More Resilience . We talk about what stress actually is, why it gets so dismissed in medicine, and what to do when your diamond finally cracks. Dr. Aditi knows stress from both sides. As a medical resident working 80-hour weeks in the cardiac ICU, she was taught that "pressure makes diamonds." Then she experienced a stampede of wild horses across her chest that turned out to be... stress! Not a heart attack or low blood sugar. It was her nervous system completely losing it. When her doctor said "just relax," she realized there was a massive gap between how common stress is (60-80% of doctor visits) and how little support exists for it (only 3% of doctors counsel for stress). So she became the doctor she needed. We talk about: * Why calling it “just” stress is medical gaslighting * How doomscrolling is the modern way to scan for danger…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff Warren, Tasha Schumann

Guest: Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Topics covered

• stress management
• mental health
• resilience
• medical gaslighting
• breathing techniques

Keywords

• stress
• resilience
• mental health
• breathing
• doomscrolling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Medical School

Books & works: The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain for Less Stress and More Resilience

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