The 5 Resets

Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

As seen on Good Morning America and The Today Show with Hoda and Jenna

“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

“The doctor everybody needs.”

— Mel Robbins, Host of the Mel Robbins Podcast

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.

Amazing book

I love the scientific explanations behind our stress, our reactions, and how we can overcome it.

Articulated well.

This book changed my life! It gave EASY routines to implement to the everyday life. & YES they work. Thanks Doc!

Must read- so helpful

As soon as I finished the book, I was ready to listen to it again. very thankful for a book that offers very specific action steps to take, and leaves you feeling very human the whole time.

My favorite book

I loved this book so much!! The author is amazing, non judgmental, human, and everything good! I enjoyed this book, and have learned many invaluable lessons! I recommend this book to everyone, no matter what challenge you’re going through, this will help you! I have started helping myself, and doing things I was never able to start doing! My husband is so impressed with me as well, he can tell it’s working! I told him to listen to this book as well, I’m going to listen to this again with him. Thank you to the author, you don’t know how much you’ve helped me!!!

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.