In “The 5 Resets,” Dr. Nerurkar offers a total mindset shift about stress and five bite-sized, yet actionable resets to implement into our everyday lives – powerful pillars of wisdom that bring together physiological and psychological coping skills and enable readers to cope when things get hard.

Drawing on decades of experience, Dr. Nerurkar developed a research-backed clinical approach to help her patients overcome everyday stress. Says Dr. Nerurkar, “I wrote ‘The 5 Resets’ using the same techniques I’ve used in my prior clinical practice dedicated to stress management.” 

Dr. Nerurkar states that the common misperception of stress as “bad” needs reframing. “Stress is a healthy biological phenomenon that helps us tackle life’s many demands,” she says. “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 the following five science-backed mindset shifts, rooted in more than two decades of clinical experience:

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

In “The 5 Resets,” Dr. Nerurkar illuminates why 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 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). 

When it comes to stress and burnout, Dr. Nerurkar says, “I truly believe that everyone has the power to make positive shifts in your mental health,” she says. “My job is to hold up the mirror so you can see that for yourself.”

She adds, “I hope The 5 Resets serves as a roadmap to change your relationship with stress, bring your biology back into balance, and feel calmer right now.”

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