Good Life Project How to Reset Your Stress Response and Rewire Your Brain for Resilience with Harvard Expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
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Jan 25, 2024 
Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, author of The Five Resets, shares science-backed techniques to reframe our relationship with stress. Topics include setting digital boundaries, the impact of digital devices on mental health, finding balance and staying informed without stress, toxic resilience vs. true resilience, letting go of perfectionism, finding stillness and social connection, monotasking and time blocking, and the healing power of expressive writing.
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Stress Drives Compulsive Scrolling
- Stress makes us seek more information and scroll, which paradoxically increases amygdala activation.
- That scanning behavior is an evolutionary survival response now misapplied to news and feeds.
Delayed Stress Response Causes Post-Trauma Deluge
- A delayed stress response explains why many feel worse after the acute pandemic threat subsided.
- When psychological safety returns, pent-up emotions and exhaustion can flood out.
Identify A 'Most' Goal And Map Steps
- Define what matters most (MOST) with small, timely goals to shift from amygdala to prefrontal planning.
- Create a concrete roadmap of reachable steps to close the gap between knowledge and action.